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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Justin Calen Chenn
Starring: Brad Roller | Laura Waddell | Napoleon Ryan | Paris Benjamin | Paulie Rojas | Rachel Rath | Sherill Turner
Jason says: “FOLKLORE is the sort of comedy that will, over the course of the film, tell the audience about a hundred jokes in the hope that enough hit to make the whole thing worth it. It’s got a hit
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Christian Bale | Han Xiting | Huang Tianyuan | Ni Ni | Zhang Doudou | Zhang Xinyi
Jason says: “It sort of makes sense when Hollywood makes a movie about something that happened outside the borders of America and Europe but makes a white guy the protagonist – silly, but understandable. When a Chinese filmmaker decides that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Anaïs Demoustier | Joanna Kulig | Juliette Binoche | Krystyna Janda | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing
Bruce says: “Few stars are lovelier than the radiant Juliette Binoche. Her appeal is not superficial for she radiates an inner beauty that infuses her characters. As Anne, a reporter for Elle Magazine, Binoche adds another layer. She comes from
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Francesco Bruni
Starring: Barbara Bobulova | Fabrizio Bentevoglio | Filippo Scicchitan | Giacomo Ceccarelli | Stefano Brunori
Bruce says: “Winner of three prizes at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, EASY! is a satisfying comedy about parenting and coming of age. Writer director Francesco Bruni, best known for his screenplay for CATERINA IN THE BIG CITY, demonstrates the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sloane U'ren
Starring: Edward Halsted | Hannah Carson | James Greene | Patrick Godfrey | Sam Harrison | Sean Hart
Jason says: “As much as I found the festival describing DIMENSIONS: A LINE, A LOOP, A TANGLE OF THREADS (to give it its full title) with ‘Imagine a sci-fi film on PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre’ to be a bit too glibly
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt | FrédéricTcheng | Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Bruce says: “Diana Vreeland is a foolproof subject for a documentary. Famous for her remark to Norman Parkinson regarding his fashion photos from a photo shoot in India , ‘I adore that pink. It’s the navy blue of India,’ Ms.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joseph Kahn
Starring: Brooke Haven | Dane Cook | James Black | Josh Hutcherson | Parker Bagley | Spencer Locke
Jason says: “Some things about DETENTION make me think that director Joseph Kahn isn’t just making a movie for young audiences, but taunting ones my age. A movie that asks ‘how hard is it to be cool in 1992?’ (my
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Penny Vozniak
Jason says: “There are many warning signs, but when the person hired to get electronic press kit/making-of footage for a movie comes to the producer and asks if she can hang around more and keep her footage because she thinks
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Eva Green | Helena Bonham Carter | Jackie Earle Haley | Johnny Depp | Jonny Lee Miller | Michelle Pfeiffer
Chris says: “Not exactly a return to form for Tim Burton, but easily the best remake/adaptation he’s done since his BATMAN films. Junk culture like a cheesy horror-laced soap opera seems closer to his heart than Lewis Carroll or Roald
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni | Éric Caravaca | Golshifteh Farahani | Isabella Rossellini | Maria de Maderios | Mathieu Almaric
Bruce says: “After their huge success with PERSEPOLIS, filmmakers Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were surprised to find that money for their second feature was so difficult to raise. It’s not that investors were down on the filmmaking duo, rather
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