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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rossana Diaz Costa
Starring: Augusto Linares | Fernando Bacilio | Fiorella de Ferrari | Liliana Alegría | Nacho Fresneda | Rodrigo Barba
Diane says: “Director Rossana Díaz Costa gets her own adaptation of this preeminent Latin American novel on screen in time for the novel’s 50th anniversary. Julius is the youngest of four children in a wealthy family living palatially in Lima, Peru
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Alana Waksman
Starring: Devery Jacobs | Kate Britton | Kendra Mylnechuk | Madeleine Coghlan | Rinnan Henderson
Diane says: “In WE BURN LIKE THIS, Rae, a young woman living in Billings, MT, calls upon her heritage of survivorship to begin to face childhood trauma and present-day addictions. Filmmaker Alana Waksman packs a little too much thematically into
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Audrey Totter | Cecil Kellaway | Hume Cronyn | John Garfield | Lana Turner | Leon Ames
Michael says: “Often mentioned as one of the best examples of film noir, I thought I should check out this novel adaptation from 1946. An entertaining romp, to be sure, but it doesn’t have the charisma and appeal as those
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lauren Fash
Starring: Bethany Anne Lind | Judith Ivey | Katrina Norman | Kerry Cahill | Michael Trucco | Robyn Lively | Shanola Hampton
Michael says: “You don’t see whole lot of Southern gothic on film nowadays, but director Lauren Fash (with her co-writer/partner) actress, Susan Graham, have dived wholeheartedly into one, made all the more complicated by an unreliable narrator, and a melodramatic storyline
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Huston
Starring: Claire Trevor | Edward G. Robinson | Harry Lewis | Humphrey Bogart | John Rodney | Lauren Bacall | Lionel Barrymore | Marc Lawrence | Thomas Gomez
Michael says: “After seeing THE BIG SLEEP, I had to watch the rest of Bogie and Bacall’s oeuvre. Count me as one of the many who are smitten by their chemistry. I’m particularly taken by Lauren Bacall’s assured and powerful
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Domhnall Gleeson | Liv Hill | Oliver Zetterström | Richard Campbell | Ruth Wilson | Tipper Seifert-Cleveland | Will Poulter
Thom says: “OK UK haunted house film needs more of Rampling. 3 cats“
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brea Grant
Starring: Alex Berg | Alex Farnie | Jon Michael Davis | Stacey Storey | Tom Davies | Vera Miao
Jason says: “Brea Grant has thus far had the sort of career that leads to a movie like BEST FRIENDS FOREVER- after a few instances of being the pretty good thing in disappointing productions and not having it lead to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Daisuke Katô | Isuzu Yamada | Seizaburô Kawazu | Takashi Shimura | Tatsuya Nakadai | Toshirô Mifune | Yôko Tsukasa
Michael says: “I guess it doesn’t matter if their Japanese and directed by a master, I’m just to that much of a fan, with the exception of a handful of revisionist/feminist takes, of the western. Although in fact, YOJIMBO, which means
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Cliff Robertson | Geneviève Bujold | J. Patrick McNamara | John Lithgow | Stanley J. Reyes | Sylvia Kuumba Williams | Wanda Blackman
Chris says: “Interesting that Brian De Palma made this between PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and CARRIE: it feels almost beholden to reverently emulating (rather than simply paying affectionate homage to) a certain Hitchcock film (Bernard Herrmann score and all!) except
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julien Faraut
Michael: “I’m not really an avid sports documentary viewer, but this fascinating slice of Olympic history intrigued me greatly, and I found the film utterly fascinating to watch. In the late 50’s the Japanese women’s volleyball team began a streak
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