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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Starring: Ben Shenkman | John Doman | Michelle Williams | Mike Vogel | Reila Aphrodite | Ryan Gosling
Ibad says: “This is my first review on this board as a new Chlotrudis member, so do forgive me for this. This isn’t the first review I’ve written, but this film was, truly, difficult to write about. I think it’s
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Beth says: “This was Terence Davies’ commission for the Liverpool Cultural Group, and it’s a wonderful homage to his hometown city – in a sense it’s his MY WINNIPEG, the story of a city via the life of one of
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Tom Quinn
Starring: Andrew Conway | Greg Lyons | Irene Longshore | MaryAnn McDonald | Paul Blackway | Tobias Segal
Jason says: “The glib description of THE NEW YEAR PARADE is that divorce is hard on everybody – not just parents and children, but everyone else caught up in it, including the parade orchestras. Fortunately, the movie itself isn’t glib,
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Brian Milligan | Liam Cunningham | Liam McMahon | Michael Fassbender | Stuart Graham
Bruce says: “Award winning video artist Steve McQueen makes a stunning directorial debut with his evocative film documenting the conditions leading up to the 1981 hunger strike led by Bobby Sands at Her Majesty’s Maze prison nine miles from Belfast.
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jacques Nolot
Starring: Bastien d’Asnières | Bernard Herlem | Bruno Moneglia | Jacques Nolot | Lionel Goldstein | Marc Riofoul
Bruce says: “What becomes of the many hustlers and gigolos who are objects of desire in their youth, then fade out of sight? Some miraculously survive but many die along the way, succumbing to AIDS, murder or substance abuse. BEFORE
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Bruce says: “Like Ozu and Rohmer, Werner Herzog tends to revisit the same themes. That is not to say he is making the same film over and over; he is compiling a body of work that is forged together thematically,
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Guido Santi | Tina Mascara
Michael says: “This was the film that Chlotrudis co-presented at Ptown, and I was very pleased by the nearly packed house at the Crown & Anchor. CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY beautifully tells the story of the thirty-year relationship
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Galina Vishnevskaya | Raisa Gichaeva | Vasily Shevtsov
Bruce says: “Operatic diva Galina Vishnevskaya plays against type as Alexandra Nikolaevna, an aged Russian grandmother who travels to the front lines in Chechnya to see her grandson whom she loves dearly. As the film begins we see the back
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Ebru Ceylan | Nazan Kirilmas | Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Bruce says: “While I enjoyed DISTANT, Celylan’s last film, I found its many flaws curbed my enthusiasm. I have not seen Ceylan’s earlier films so I have no way of knowing whether there was ever an inkling of such an
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Gretchen Krich | Jake Morgan-Scharhon | Maya Lawson | Sullivan Brown | Todd Moore
Beth says: “Guy Maddin. His latest, a semi-autobiographical silent film, with a live musical accompaniment, a narrator and a foley effects crew. Pretty much unmissable, really, even if I don’t always get Maddin – I love silent films shown with
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