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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Ann Prentiss | Anne Meara | Jack Lemmon | Robert Nichols | Ron Carey | Sandy Baron | Sandy Dennis
Michael says: “With the expected smart and rapid dialog from playwright Neil Simon, THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS is a lively, dark comedy about a suburban couple from Ohio who travel to New York City in the hopes of landing a big job
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ben Sharrock
Starring: Bárbara Goenaga | Joseba Usabiaga | Lander Otaola | Ylenia Baglietto | Zorion Eguileor
Michael says: “Sharrock is the Scottish director who recently scored big with Chlotrudis viewers for his second film, LIMBO. PIKADERO is his debut film released in 2015. It revolves around a young couple living in the Basque Country of Spain
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Bruckner
Starring: Christina Jackson | David Abeles | Evan Jonigkeit | Patrick Klein | Rebecca Hall | Sarah Goldberg | Stacy Martin | Vondie Curtis-Hall
Brett says: “As fan of the underexposed and underrated anthology spookfest SOUTHBOUND, it was a no-brainer to take a seat at director David Bruckner’s latest film THE NIGHT HOUSE, especially with the notion of a major motion picture studio backing
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elaine May
Starring: Doris Roberts | Elaine May | George Rose | Jack Weston | James Coco | Renée Taylor | Walter Matthau
Michael says: “I find Elaine May’s career rather fascinating, although I haven’t seen a lot of her work more of her writing, some of her acting, and little of her directing. I’m hoping to change that. A NEW LEAF, released
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Elizabeth Ashley | Geneviève Bujold | Hari Rhodes | Lois Chiles | Michael Douglas | Richard Widmark | Rip Torn
Michael says: “Released in 1978, COMA came from an era before thrillers had to be action movies. Set in Boston, a young resident, Dr. Susan Wheeler begins to suspect something strange is going on when a good friend lapses into
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Edson Oda
Starring: Benedict Wong | Bill Skarsgård | Jeffrey Hanson | Tony Hale | Winston Duke | Zazie Beetz
Brett says: “Some may find the concept esoteric, but the science fiction mind-screw NINE DAYS takes an approach that this viewer found unique to the genre: stacking an emotional and humanist card on top of the deck rather than letting
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cathy Yan
Starring: Ali Wong | Chris Messina | Ella Jay Basco | Ewan McGregor | Jurnee Smollett | Margot Robbie | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Rosie Perez
Michael says: “Big, dumb, super-hero action film? Check! Big-budget blockbuster written and directed by a couple of women, starring four kick-ass ladies as the costumed protagonists? What, what? Yeah, you got the right. Borrowing loosely from a DC Comic made famous by
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Billy Gray | Frances Bavier | Hugh Marlowe | Lock Martin | Michael Rennie | Patricia Neal | Sam Jaffe
Michael says: “I always had the impression that the 50s science fiction movies were cheesy and dumb, and not really worth the time to watch them. I’m glad I was wrong, and that I decided to check out THE DAY
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Akin Aksu | Bennu Yildirimlar | Dogu Demirkol | Hazar Ergüçlü | Murat Cemcir | Öner Erkan | Serkan Keskin
Michael says: “I am a big fan of Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, despite the dense, sometimes inscrutable films he makes with running times sometimes well over three hours. His first film, DISTANT, plays like a sober, languid, dramatic version
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean Cocteau
Starring: François Périer | Henri Crémieux | Jean Marais | Juliette Gréco | María Casares | Marie Déa | Roger Blin
Michael says: “Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, ORPHEUS was the sixth of only eight narrative films that Jean Cocteau directed, the most famous of which, of course, is BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Cocteau’s ORPHEUS revolves around
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