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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Starring: Aoi Miyazaki | Kazuhiro Yamaji | Koji Yakusho | Suzu Hirose
Jason says: “I’ve been wrong about these things on a fairly regular basis, so I’m not going to question the American release of Mamoru Hosada’s THE BOY AND THE BEAST on the same day that the Walt Disney Company puts
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Demet Akbag | Haluk Bilginer | Melissa Sözen | Serhat MustafaKiliç
Michael says: “Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan has yet to let me down. I have enjoyed (now, including this one) all five of his films that I have seen, including ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA, which scored a Chotrudis
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Patrick Forbes
Kyle says: “After survivors tell heartrending tales of losing loved ones to sudden heart attacks, and medical professionals argue about scans versus stents, there comes a telling moment near the end of THE WIDOWMAKER, when Wendell Potter, former Director of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Starring: Gergely Bánki | Lili Horváth | Lili Monori | Sándor Zsótér | Szabolcs Thuróczy | Zsófia Psotta
Bruce says: “One of the great things about watching AMORES PERROS on DVD was the accompanying special feature that explained how dogs were trained so that no harm was actually done to them during the filming. While such technological detail
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Starring: Kasumi Arimura | Nanako Matsushima | Sara Takatsuki | Susumu Terajima | Toshie Negishi
Jason says: “Toward the end of WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE, I found myself feeling a delightfully paradoxical appreciation for how it was put together: It somehow feels simultaneously surprising and inevitable, with the symbolic and the literal overlapping in ways
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Anne Caron | Evelyne Brochu | Lise Roy | Manuel Tadros | Pierre-Yves Cardinal | Xavier Dolan
Kyle says: “TOM AT THE FARM is a 2013 film (only now receiving its New York release in August 2015) by wunderkind maverick virtuoso genius-boy (as Walter Pidgeon refers to Kirk Douglas in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL) writer/director Xavier
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Starring: Abel Jafri | Cheik A.G. Emakni | Ibrahim Ahmed dit Pino | Layla Walet Mohamed | Mehdi A.G. Mohamed | Toulou Kiki
Jason says: “It’s a bit odd that the first film from Mauritania to be nominated for an Academy Award is about Mali, but this isn’t the sort of movie that a country generally makes about itself until much later in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Zaza Urushadze
Starring: Elmo Nüganen | Giorgi Nakashidze | Lembit Ulfsak | Misha Meskhi | Raivo Trass.
Kyle says: “TANGERINES is set in a rural village in Abkhazia, which considers itself independent, and which Georgia considers part of its territory. The collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 resulted in dozens of local conflicts, and this one is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aaron Moorhead | Justin Benson
Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci | Nadia Hilker | Shane Brady | Vanessa Bednar
Jason says: “Every once in a while, a movie will be built in such a way to make you forget what sort of film you came in expecting to see, usually so that it can get a jolt out of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: James Franco
Starring: Ahna O'Reilly | Danny McBride | James Franco | Joey King | Loretta Devine | Seth Rogen | Tim Blake Nelson
Thom says: “A year before this film, Franco had directed a brilliant adaptation of William Faulkner’s AS I LAY DYING, putting to rest any doubts that the right talent wouldn’t be able to make a film from Faulkner’s difficult, mesmerizing
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