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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Bakhtiyar Panjeei | Jafar Panahi | Mina Kavani | Narges Delaram | Vahid Mobasseri
Diane says: “NO BEARS is the latest from Jafar Panahi, the outlawed Iranian director. I’m still wondering about the tone of the film: I took much of it to be hilarious satire, but I’m not sure that it actually is.
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Director: Joanna Arnow
Starring: Babak Tafti | David Arnow | Joanna Arnow | Rushi Birudala | Scott Cohen
Brett says: “Joanna Arnow’s feature film debut comprises a series of threads, crossing and weaving, but never quite seamless from scene to scene. The film employs a fragmented editing approach, almost as if audiences are picking up pieces here and
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Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Eita Nagayama | Hinata Hiiragi | Mitsuki Takahata | Sakura Andô | Soya Kurokawa
Chris says: “This is Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first film set in his native Japan since SHOPLIFTERS and also his first that he hasn’t written himself since MABOROSI, his 1995 feature debut. Rest assured, MONSTER is completely in the director’s wheelhouse of
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Director: Sebastián Silva
Starring: Catalina Saavedra | Jordan Firstman | Martine Gutierrez | Mateo Riestra | Sebastián Silva
Michael says: “While the synopsis of this film did a bit to prepare me for the audacious and flat-out bizarre journey I might be embarking on, certainly Silva’s earlier film, THE MAID, for which lead actress Catalina Saavedra was nominated
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Director: Margaret Brown
Michael says: “This is one of those documentaries that I can only imagine started out with a particular premise, and as filming commenced, more and more was unearthed around this story that it turned into something so much more. Ostensibly
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Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Go Kyung-Pyo | Lee Jung-hyun | Park Hae-il | Shin-Young Kim | Tang Wei
Chris says: “Both the camerawork and editing go a long way towards transforming what is at its core a standard romantic thriller Hitchcock could’ve eked out sixty years ago (or Wong Kar-wai in the 1990s.) As others have said, it
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joanna Hogg
Starring: August Joshi | Carly-Sophia Davies | Joseph Mydell | Louis | Tilda Swinton | Zinnia Davies-Cooke
Michael says: “Completing (perhaps?) the unplanned trilogy begun with THE SOUVENIR and THE SOUVENIR PART II, Joann Hogg’s take on the gothic ghost story, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER becomes my favorite of her films since ARCHIPELAGO. In a genius casting move,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Laura Wandel
Starring: Günter Duret | James Seguy | Lena Girard Voss | Maya Vanderbeque | Simon Caudry | Thao Maerten
Michael says: “This hard-hitting examination of how children learn the harsh realities of adulthood is a tough watch, but the astounding performance that director Wandel reveals by child-actor Maya Vanderbeque is riveting. Nora and her older brother Abel, go to
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Rebecca Hall
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Andre Holland | Antoinette Crowe-Legacy | Bill Camp | Gbenga Akinnagbe | Ruth Negga | Tessa Thompson
Michael says: “This assured directorial debut from actor Rebecca Hall reveals a practice that many people will be unaware. Set in 1920’s Harlem, a chance reunion of two high school friends poses moral and ethical challenges to a black woman
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Hans Olav Brenner | Herbert Nordrum | Maria Grazia Di Meo | Renate Reinsve
Diane says: “In Joachim Trier’s latest film, the lead from his OSLO AUGUST 31ST (2011), Anders Danielsen Lie, almost steals the show from the main character. But I’m not complaining. Lie plays comic book author Aksel, the first serious relationship
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