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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Doug Pray
Julie says: “I was somewhat mesmerized by SURFWISE. Director Doug Pray tells the story of Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz, a Stanford educated doctor and renowned surf guru who chose to raise his 9 children in a somewhat ‘unconventional’ way (although Paskowitz
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Starring: Haiyu Xiang | Hong Wei Wong | Lin Zhou | Sanming Han | Tao Zhao | Zhubin Li
Bruce says: “Anyone who has seen THE WORLD will likely expect great things from Jia Zhang-ke, one of China’s ascending directorial stars. While THE WORLD was not a totally satisfying film it did portend great things to come. Happily, the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Claude Miller
Starring: Cécile de France | Julie Depardieu | Ludivine Sagnier | Mathieu Amalric | Patrick Bruel | Quentin Dubois | Valentin Vigourt
Bruce says: “Set during the Nazi occupation of France during WWII, A SECRET is a war film, a love story, a coming-of-age tale and a mystery all wrapped into one very neat package. Its main asset, among many, is the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Alice Braga | Chiwelet Ejiofor | David Paymer | Emily Mortimer | Joe Mantegna | Rebecca Pidgeon | Ricky Jay | Rodrigo Santoro | Tim Allen
Jason says: “REDBELT isn’t quite a blender movie, where a filmmaker puts two generally unrelated genres together to see what happens. It is a nifty combination of David Mamet mystery and martial arts action, and it delivers on that DNA’s
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Antonio Luigi Grimaldi
Starring: Alessandro Gassman | Blu Di Martino | Isabella Ferrari | Nanni Moretti | Roman Polanski | Valeria Golino
Bruce says: “As QUIET CHAOS begins, Pietro (Nanni Moretti) and Carlo (Alessandro Gassman) Paladini, brothers from Rome’s privileged class, are playing paddleball towards summer’s end at a beachside resort. Suddenly there are screams from the ocean. Two women have gone
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Aaron Katz
Starring: Cris Lankenau | Erin Fisher | Sarah Hellman
Michael says: “Since it didn’t win the John Cassavetes Award at the Indie Spirits, but I did get to see director Aaron Katz, who I got to chat with, on TV, I thought I should review the film QUIET CITY
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mike E. Kaplan
Bruce says: “Although NEVER APOLOGIZE has a documentary label, it is a screen adaptation of Malcolm McDowell’s one-man show that originated on stage. Wearing a tuxedo jacket, an open white shirt and baggy jeans, McDowell, a raconteur par excellence, enthralls
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Etgar Keret | Shira Geffen
Starring: Gera Sandler | Ilanit Ben Yaakov | Ma-nenita De Latorre | Nikol Leidman | Noa Knoller | Sarah Adler
Michael says: “JELLYFISH won the Golden Camera, and the Screenwriter’s Award at Cannes earlier this year. Now it comes to Toronto, and in a couple of months, the Boston Jewish Film Festival co-presented by Chlotrudis! I didn’t know what to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Starring: Kiatkamol Lata | Supakson Chaimongkol
Jason says: “When you’re born with a third arm, losing your tailor is far more traumatic than losing your girlfriend. “At least, that’s the impression one gets from Kwan Traithep (Kiatkamol Latha) at the start of HANDLE ME WITH CARE.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Starring: Ayami Kakiuchi | Mitsuki Tanimora | Mitsutaka Itakura | Riisa Naka | Takuya Ishida
Jason says: “Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time has been made into a movie twice before, and I must admit that I’m curious to see at least one of them – there are apparently connections with the
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