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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Barlen Pyamootoo
Starring: Davidsen Kamanah | Jérôme Boulle | Kristeven Mootien
Bruce says: “BENARES is the first film from novelist Barlen Pyamootoo who has lived and studied in France. It is also the first film ever from the country of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar with
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Heidi Ewing | Rachel Grady
Bruce says: “Twenty African-American boys, age 12, are selected each year to attend a two year program in Kenya. The Baraka School was built buy money from The Abel Foundation in Baltimore as an experiment to save some of Baltimore’s
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Beat Takeshi | Gadarukanaru Taka | Michiyo Ookusu | Michiyo Yasuda | Tadanobu Asano
Diane says: “Samurai spaghetti western with a heavy dose of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. While samurai gangs destroy each other, Kitano shows what’s happening to the disenfranchised regular folks. Beat Takeshi, playing the lead role of THE BLIND
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alexandra Cassevetes
Hilary says: “Xan (Alexandra) Cassavetes’ first feature-length foray into the ‘family business’ tells the story of Z Channel, the the nation’s first pay-cable station, founded in 1974 in LA. “Z Channel’s founder, Jerry Harvey, was a rabid cinemaphile who influenced
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Ewan MacGregor | Ewan Stewart | Jack McElhone | Pauline Taylor | Peter Mullan | Stuart McQuarrie | Therese Bradley | Tilda Swinton
Chris says: “YOUNG ADAM features Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton having lots of steamy, hot sex in the repressed 1950s. It’s not a skeezy film, nor a really pleasurable one. At least no one pays too dearly for their sins;
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Satoshi Kon | Shôgo Furuya
Starring: Aya Okamoto | Toru Emori | Yoshiaki Umegaki
Michael says: “While foraging through the trash on Christmas, three homeless friends, a teenaged girl, a transvestite, and a middle-adged man find a baby who has been abandoned. Rather than bringing the infant to the police, the three embark on
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