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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Scarlett Johansson | Steve Buscemi | ThoraBirch
Bob says: “It seems to me that this film is much too heavily reliant on marketing some committee got together and decided which segment of the population they were going after, and how they were going to get them.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liv Ullman
Starring: Erland Josephson | Krister Henriksson | Lena Endre | Thomas Hanzon
Diane says: “FAITHLESS was written by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Liv Ullman. An aging director (we’ll call him ‘Bergman’) is writing the story of a disastrous affair. The woman involved, ‘Marianne,’ appears to him as a muse. It becomes
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Alan Ruck | Catherine Lloyd Burns | Justin Louis | Louis Ferreira | Mark Boone Junior | Mat Malloy | Megan Mulally | Michele Hicks | Radha Mitchell
Michael says: “EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER is the feature directorial debut from Marc Forster, whose MONSTER’S BALL starring Billy Bob Thornton is due out soon. TOGETHER stars HIGH ART‘S Radha Mitchell as a young suburban woman, pregnant and about to give
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Eduardo Noriega | Federico Luppi | Marisa Paredes
Howard says: “A great film taking place near the end of the Spanish Civil war. Its being billed as a ghost story, but its really about how peoples pasts can completely control their present. The cast is great especially the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Im Kwon-Taek
Starring: Cho Seung-Woo | Kim Sung-Nyu | Lee Hyo-Jeong
Diane says: CHUNHYANG is a version of an ancient Korean love story (and eight-hour opera). I loved it! The film moves very nicely between the contemporary opera performance and the past-time events. Rich colors, fascinating singing, good acting. I’ll be
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Anderson Ballesteros | Germán Jaramillo | Juan David Restrepo
Diane says: “Found OUR LADY OF THE ASSASSINS to be a very powerful film. Fernando, a 50ish writer, returns to Medellin, Colombia, no longer the pastoral town he grew up in, but a setting for the constant undercurrent of casual
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gerard Stembridge
Starring: Frances O'Connor | Kate Hudson | Stuart Townsend
Tim says: “ABOUT ADAM was fun. This was a movie made great by a strong cast, all of whom split split up the work of making it a good movie. I thought Frances O’Connor was especially great.” 4 cats
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