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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tamara Jenkins
Starring: Cara Seymour | Laura Linney; Philip Seymour Hoffman' Philip Bosco | Philip Friedman
Michael says: “It took Tamara Jenkins nearly ten years to release this follow-up to her critically acclaimed, debut feature, 1998’s THE SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS. In that time, she shifted her focus from the west coast to the east, from
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Luke Wolbach
Michael says: “The synopsis of ROW HARD, NO EXCUSES is pretty simple: two men enter a competition to row across the Atlantic Ocean. First-time documentary filmmaker Luke Wolbach chronicles the men’s journey to the race and across the Atlantic, while
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Christian Bale | Jeremy Davies | Steve Zahn
Michael says: “I’m not a fan of war films, but leave it Werner Herzog to get me to go to one, and even to enjoy it for the most part. Of course, in most ways, RESCUE DAWN isn’t your typical
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alain Resnais
Starring: André Dussollier | Isabelle Carré | Lambert Wilson | Laura Morante | Pierre Arditi | Sabine Azéma
Bruce says: “Alain Resnais is eighty four and by now must have had plenty experience feeling lonely. PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES is all about loneliness and appears the work of a subject matter expert. Theirry (André Dussollier) is a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Glenn Standring
Starring: Dougray Scott | Leo Gregory | Saffron Burrows | Scott Willis
Jason says: “For PERFECT CREATURE, the question of ‘what if vampires were real’ isn’t quite good enough; it asks what if vampires were real, but instead of being feared, they were objects of worship? It’s kind of a dodgy idea,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tunde Kelani
Starring: Ayo Badmus | Seyi Fasuyi | Sola Asedeko
Bruce says: “The African films I’ve seen recently have all been quite melodramatic; THE NARROW PATH is no exception. Awero (Sola Asedeko), a young village girl is beautiful and much in demand as a potential wife for men in neighboring
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brian Scott Lederman
Starring: Adam LeFevre | Brian Scott Lederman | Erik Per Sullivan | Margo Martindale | Shayna Levine
Michael says: “That MO got made is something to admire, at the very least. Making a feature film is no easy thing, and even though the subject clearly means a lot to director Brian Lederman, it takes more than one
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Starring: Hermila Guedes | Maria Menezes | Zezita Matos
Bruce says: “The film starts out with a home movie of ‘The Day I Got Pregnant.’ Hermila dances around the beach with a blue blanket. She was determined to make this day ‘the happiest day of her life or die
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Seth Gordon
Michael says: “In the world of documentaries I am often left thinking, how did the filmmaker find that story? Other times I think, they really put that film together well to make it a compelling story. Seth Gordon’s THE KING
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Parvez Sharma
Michael says: “This is one of those films that I find very difficult to review. Focusing on the horrific plight of the homosexual Muslim, it’s an important film with a story that needs to be told, yet as a film
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