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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Ed Harris | Glenn Fitzgerald | Joaquin Phoenix | Scott Glenn
Bob G. says: “Before BUFFALO SOLDIERS falls apart, at exactly the 3/4 mark, it is among the best and most compulsively watchable of the many military satires made. It contains horror that is at times as devastating as anything thrown
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: André Heller | Othmar Schmiderer
Ellen says: “The entire film consists of Traudi Junge telling her story of being the secretary to Hitler in the final days of the Hitler regime. I heard complaints that no new information was revealed but I found it thoroughly
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Starring: Audrey Tautou | Cécile de France | Judith Godrèche | Romain Duris
Georgette says: “Well, Cedric Klapisch has another winner with L’AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE. With the same charm and good-natured fun as in his delightful WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY again we meet a cast of true characters, and the city is definitely one
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Djimon Honsou | Emma Bolger | Paddy Considine | Samantha Morton | Sarah Bolger
Kevin says: “From Jim Sheridan, the director of IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER and MY LEFT FOOT, comes IN AMERICA, certainly one of the best films of 2003. “The film concerns a family, consisting of Johnny (Patty Considine), his
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christophe Gans
Starring: Emilie Dequenne | Monica Belluci | Samuel Le Bihan | Vincent Cassel
Bob says: “I thought it had a lot of style, and that it had clearly been influenced by Besson and the folks behind THE MATRIX (who were in turn influenced by just about everybody in Hong Kong). However, I also
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ming-liang | Tsai
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “The story unfolds ever so slowly, and the pace doesn’t change throughout the nearly 2-hour running time, but is punctuated by sudden scenes of bizarre hilarity. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? follows the lives of three people who
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Dario Grandinetti | Javier Cámara | Leonor Watling | Rosario Flores
Michael says: “A group of us saw Pedro Almodovar’s sublime TALK TO HER last night. That Spanish director’s eye for creating exquisite visual portraits using the language of film just keeps growing. Each scene is so carefully crafted, and his
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul Justman
Laura says: “This documentary about the legendary Funk Brothers, who were the studio musicians for all of Motown’s Detroit era hits, was the one I expected to topple GIGANTIC off the top of my doc list, but it didn’t quite
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Julian Richings | Kristen Thomson | Matthew Ferguson
Michael says: “I wanted to just say a few words about Sarah’s short film, I SHOUT LOVE. I felt it was quite an accomplished, entertaining, and effective effort from a novice director. Sarah did a terrific job merging the very
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dylan Kidd
Starring: Campbell Scott | Elizabeth Berkley | Isabella Rossellini | Jesse Eisenberg
Laura says: “Ad exec Roger (Campbell Scott) delights his coworkers and boss and secret lover Joyce (Isabella Rossellini) with his witty rationale on why women will take over the world during a boozy bistro session, but a later visit to
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