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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Shainee Gabel
Starring: Gabriel Macht | John Travolta | Scarlett Johanssen
Barbara says: “I know Scarlett Johansson is a favorite of a lot of members and she does not disappoint in this film. I think she and John Travolta have two of the most expressive sets of eyes in film. The
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tim Kirkman
Starring: Bonnie Hunt | Kip Pardue | Michael Kelly | Tess Harper
Michael says: “Tim Kirkman’s LOGGERHEADS is a moving examination of adoption, religious tolerance, and sexuality. While at times it plays a little like a Lifetime TV movie of the week, strong performances and complex time shifts bring it above the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Fenton Bailey | Randy Barbato
Michael says: “After scoring with their documentary THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE back in 2000, the writer/director team of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato tackled narrative films with the slightly disastrous PARTY MONSTER in 2003 (okay, it grabbed a Best
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: Alejandro Urdapilleta | Carlos Belloso | María Alche | Mercedes Morán
Michael says: “Lucrecia Martel’s THE HOLY GIRL is a perplexing, but ultimately rewarding (for me) film. More a series of vignettes involving several families in Argentina, THE HOLY GIRL examines religion, awakening sexuality and family dynamics in a highly symbolic
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Fatih Akin
Starring: Birol Ünel | Catrin Striebeck | Sibel Kekilli
Diane says: “Director and screenwriter Fatih Akin, himself born in Hamburg to Turkish parents, tells a bleak and bloody story of two Turkish Germans, Cahit and Sibel, who meet after their respective suicide attempts and form a marriage of convenience.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Tom says: “at times…. there’s quite a few verybad decisions in this movie (as with just about every Godzilla movie). I have several reactions to this movie. ‘The cheesy bits are AWFUL. There’s one scene early on set in New
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: Darren E. Burrows | Dina Korzun | Rip Torn
Chris says: “A surprise Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, this film from director Ira Sachs (THE DELTA) is also firmly entrenched in the music industry, specifically Memphis’. Alan (Rip Torn) is a veteran white jazz/blues musician. His estranged son, Michael
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michael Almereyda
Bruce says: “Born in Oxford, Mississippi, William Eggleston settled in Memphis where he has lived most of his adult life. WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD begins as Bill Eggleston and his son traipse around Mayfield, Kentucky on a photo
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Craig Lucas
Starring: Campbell Scott | Patricia Clarkson | Peter Saarsgard
Michael says: ” Craig Lucas would have been better served with a skilled director handling this adaptation of his stage play. Each character in THE DYING GAUL commits acts of kindness and cruelty, sometimes one under the guise of the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sergio Castellitto
Starring: Claudia Gerini | Penélope Cruz | Sergio Castellitto
Bruce says: “Timoteo is the small boy looking down into the courtyard watching an inexcusable act of cruelty, neighborhood boys beating a small frog to death. After the assailants leave, Timoteo runs down to the courtyard, finds the frog and
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