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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Kaige Chen
Starring: Hong Chen | Kaige Chen | Peiqi Liu | Yen Tang | Zhiwen Wang
Laura says: “Young violin prodigy Liu Xiaochun’s (Yun Tang) simple country father Liu Cheng (Peiqi Liu, SHADOW MAGIC) takes him to Beijing to audition for a prestigious school. Cheng overhears Professor Jiang (Zhiwen Wang, THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN) declare
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Isabel Coixet
Starring: Deborah Harry | Mark Ruffalo | Sarah Polley | Scott Speedman
Michael says: “Last week, Mary and I caught a preview of the latest film to star personal favorite Sarah Polley called MY LIFE WITHOUT ME. This Pedro and Augustin Almodovar production combines the whimsy and drama of Almodovar’s films with
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Dolly Wells | Kathleen McDermott | Paul Popplewell | Ruby Milton | Samantha Morton
Peg says: “I saw this Scottish film by Lynne Ramsay at the Women’s Film Festival and thoroughly enjoyed it! “Morvern is a young woman who wakes up, or perhaps arrives home, on Christmas morning to find her boyfriend has committed
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Satoshi Kon
Starring: Fumiko Orikasa | Mami Koyama | Miyoko Shôji
Bob says: “My experience with animé is mostly limited to movies like AKIRA and GHOST IN THE SHELL – urban science fiction with a healthy dose of philosophical questioning about the nature of the self. Well, MILLENNIUM ACTRESS is nothing
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Christopher Guest
Starring: Bob Balaban | Catherine O'Hara | Christopher Guest | Eugene Levy | Jane Lynch | Parker Posey
Bruce says: “This sweet film is another offering form the ‘Christopher Guest repertory company.’ It is the story of three musical acts, all has-beens who are brought together to perform one last time at a memorial service in honor their
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert Cary
Starring: Andrew McCarthy | Cameron Bancroft | Isabel Rose
Michael says: “Writer/Producer/Actress Isabel Rose creates a dreamy homage to the romantic musicals of the 40’s and 50’s in this sweetly delightful film. Billie (Rose) is on the verge of giving up her cabaret career (singing at airport lounges) to
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Yvan Attal
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Noémie Lvovsky | Terence Stamp | Yvan Attal
Michael says: “This delightful French film looks at a sports writer who has difficulty dealing with the fact that his wife is a famous actress. When she travels to London to work on a film that co-stars a well-known, actor,
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Laura says: “Journalist Christopher Hitchens, who has famously tackled such public figures as Mother Teresa, wrote a book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, proposing that the former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner is a war criminal.
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert J. Siegel
Starring: Jamie Harrold | Jennifer Dundas | Joelle Carter | Lauren Ambrose
Diane says: “SWIMMING brought back childhood memories of a week at Myrtle Beach on a family vacation–in the rain. My strongest memory is of being hit in the head by a beach ball thrown by a drunken man. But back
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Roger Avary
Starring: Ian Somerhalder | James Van Der Beek | Jessica Biel | Shannyn Sossamon
Laura says: “The story is stuffed with sidetracks, such as Sean’s attempt to get paid back by a hilariously out-of-it Marc, and segues like his visit to the coke-addled townie (Clifton Collins, Jr., TRAFFIC) he owes and unwisely provokes. Paul’s
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