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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Adam Egypt Mortimer
Starring: Grace Phipps | Lexi Atkins | Maestro Harrell | Ronen Rubinstein | Sierra McCormick | Spencer Breslin
Jason says: “Is it wrong to kind of hope that a pretty great horror movie perhaps stalls out at cult favorite? SOME KIND OF HATE is a strong, smart, bloody example of what the genre can do when its aims
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ian Cheney
Kyle says: “Anyone who dines on Chinese cuisine with any regularity has sampled General Tso’s Chicken. In fact, writer/director Ian Cheney of THE SEARCH FOR GENERAL TSO suggests it is the single most popular ethnic cuisine item in America aside
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Eugène Green
Starring: Arianna Nastro | Christelle Prot Landman | Fabrizio Rongione | Ludovico Succio
Kyle says: “LA SAPIENZA opens with an exquisite Italian lake shot accompanied by Claudio Monteverdi’s six-part ‘Magnificat’ from 1610, transitioning into an Italian Baroque vista and a contemplation of architectural, sculptural, and painting details. We are watching the main titles,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Brie Larson | Jacob Tremblay | Joan Allen | Rom McCanus | Sean Bridgers | Wendy Crewson | William H. Macy
Diane says: “Hey, fans of the book–you won’t be disappointed. I’ll be giving ROOM noms for Best Adapted Screenplay (happily, by the book’s author and Best Actress. This movie was as emotionally intense as any I’ve seen. As THE ROAD
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: James C. Strouse
Michael says: “When Will walks in on his wife Charly having just had sex with another man on their twin daughters’ fifth birthday he is thrown for a loop. A year later, he is still having trouble letting go. He
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