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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: George Ratliff
Michael says: “Scot and I traveled to a place that is thoroughly alien to me tonight: a Pentacostal church in Texas. Director George Ratliff has constructed a fascinating film about Texas’ infamous ‘Hell House.’ This haunted house, now running over
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Miguel Arteta
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal | Jennifer Aniston | John C. Reilly | John Carroll Lynch | Tim Blake Nelson | Zooey Deschanel
Clinton says: “The writer and director of Chlotrudis Award-winning CHUCK & BUCK return with a stunning ensemble cast, lead by a surprisingly good performance from Aniston. She plays Justine, a dissatisfied young woman stuck in a dead end job (working
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Julie Taymor
Starring: Alfred Molina | Ashley Judd | Geoffrey Rush | Salma Hayek
Emily & Greg say: “This was a surprisingly rich and engaging bio-pic of Frida Kahlo, largely driven by Salma Hayak’s compelling performance as Kahlo and Alfred Molina’s as husband Diego Rivera. This is a film that may end up finding
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucia Small
Laura says: “When famed but failed architect Glen Howard Small drew up his will, he requested that the middle daughter of his first, somewhat estranged, family should write his biography. Once filmmaker Lucia Small, who has extensive production credits with
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gail Dolgin | Vincente Franco
Michael says: “This heart-rending film looks at a Vietnamese-American girl, taken from her mother at the age of 7 and air-lifted to the United States near the end of the VietNam War. She is adopted by a single woman in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: David Jacobson
Starring: Artel Kayàru | Bruce Davison | Jeremy Renner | Matt Newton
Bob G. says: “Jeremy Renner takes an almost impossible task — demythologizing serial cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer — and hits it out of the park. He has Dahmer’s blandness, which was his key to remaining undetected for so long, down pat.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Diane Kurys
Starring: Benoît Magimel | Juliette Binoche | Robin Renucci | Stefano Dionisi
Laura says: “In 1830’s Paris, an environment of rich in artistry and hedonism, George Sand (Juliette Binoche, CHOCOLAT) gives a public reading of her second novel, ‘Lelia,’ declaring that it is easier for a man to accuse a woman of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Starring: Lin Cui | Shuan Li | Xun Zhou | Yuanyuan Gao
Michael says: “Here was a startling film that begins as a charming, warm-hearted tale of a country boy struggling to cope with life in the big city of Beijing, and ends as a cynical, pointed look at today’s society, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Henry Bean
Starring: Billy Zane | Ryan Gosling | Summer Phoenix | Theresa Russell
Laura says: “Ryan Gosling gives a breakout perf in this film about a conflicted Jew who’s become a Nazi skinhead. Henry Bean’s screenplay is of note as well.” 4 cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thebeliever.htm” Robin says: “This is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Ian Hart | Lena Heady | Stellan Skarsgaard
Bob says: “ABERDEEN is a film I’ve never heard of, by Hans Petter Moland, a Norwegian director I’ve never heard of, but the blurb looked interesting enough, and the cast included Stellan Skarsgard and Charlotte Rampling, who’s my frontrunner for
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