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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Starring: Alyssa Chia | Gingle Wang | Kuan-Ting Liu | Lee-zen Lee | Li-Yin Yang | Wei-Ning Hsu
Michael says: “It’s exhilarating, yet also quite frustrating, when the last eligible film you see before you decide to nominate ends up being one of your favorite films of the year. The Taiwanese film, THE FALLS came to may attention
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Starring: Dagmara Dominczyk | Dakota Johnson | Ed Harris | Jessie Buckley | Olivia Colman | Paul Mescal | Peter Sarsgaard
Michael says: “Bravo to Maggie Gyllenhaal for adapting a complex novel into a visually arresting, and thematically engrossing film in her first time out as a screenwriter and director. Leda is a middle-aged woman visiting a resort in Greece for
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sun-ae Lim
Starring: Joon-Kyung Kim | Ju-bong Gi | Soo-jung Ye
Michael says: “It was a bold move for South Korean writer director Lim Sun-ae to tackle elder abuse and rape as the subject of her first film, but after working on storyboards for director’s such as Lee Chang-dong, she was
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch | Frances Conroy | Geneviève Lemon | Jesse Plemons | Keith Carradine | Kirsten Dunst | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Thomasin McKenzie
Chris says: “Following a decade working mostly in television (TOP OF THE LAKE), Jane Campion returns to feature filmmaking at the top of her game. This adaptation of a Thomas Savage novel set in 1925 Montana (but filmed in New Zealand,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Magnus von Horn
Starring: Aleksandra Konieczna | Julian Swiezewski | Lech Lotocki | Magdalena Kolesnik | Magdalena Kuta | Zbigniew Zamachowski
Michael says: “Swedish writer/director Magnus Van Horn traveled to Poland to make his second feature film about the self-involved, soul-harrowing life of a celebrity Instagram influencer. Sylwia is a fitness guru, whose positive energy, warm persona, and energetic workouts we first
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christine Molloy | Joe Lawlor
Starring: Aidan Gillen | Ann Skelly | Annabell Rickerby | Catherine Walker | Joanne Crawford | Orla Brady
Jeff says: “Whew! Maybe the best movie I saw. A college student seeks her biological mother, learns the truth of her conception and birth, and the two of them gradually draw in the man responsible, with a stunning confrontation at
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Gavin Lewis | Potsy Ponciroli | Scott Haze | Stephen Dorff | Tim Blake Nelson | Trace Adkins
Thom says: “Is anything more fun than a huge surprise? While beloved Tim Blake Nelson is must-see, he’s in a lot of mediocre material. Moreover, this was a Western, one of my least favourite genres. To make matters worse, director
Read the review...By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Anong Houngheuangsy | Kang-sheng Lee
Chris says: “Tsai Ming-liang’s a filmmaker who tends to make the same kind of picture over and over, like Yasujiro Ozu (to name one of his precursors) or Hong Sang-Soo (a contemporary.) This isn’t a deterrent, for nearly three decades
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Dolores Moran | Hoagy Carmichael | Humphrey Bogart | Lauren Bacall | Sheldon Leonard | Walter Brennan | Walter Szurovy
Michael says: “After a slight slip with KEY LARGO, we’re back in business. Set in Martinque during WWII, Harry Morgan is an Amiercan ex-pat who reluctantly transports a leader in the French Resistance and his wife to the island, all
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bruce McDonald
Starring: Allan Hawco | Cathy Jones | Dylan Authors | Julia Sarah Stone | Molly Parker | Rhys Bevan-John | Vi Tang
Michael says: “What a delightful surprise when Chris told me about this charming Canadian film from 2016, written by Chlotrudis pal Daniel MacIvor, directed by the prolific Bruce McDonald, and featuring the magnificent Molly Parker in a supporting role. Set
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