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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Andrew Tiernan | Dudley Sutton | Jerome Flynn | Jody Graber | John Lynch | Kevin Collins | Nigel Terry | Steven Waddington | Tilda Swinton
Philip says: “Derek Jarman is a revolutionary filmmaker. I hate to think of him in the past tense. If you don’t understand the enormous vacuum that was left from the devastation of AIDS, watch Jarman’s EDWARD II, nearly 20 years
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Brenda Fricker | Kristin Booth | Mary-Colin Chisholm | Michael McPhee | Olympia Dukakis | Ryan Doucette
Philip says: “CLOUDBURST literally bursts on the screen with a powerhouse career-defining performance from 80 year-old Olympia Dukakis. Dukakis and Brenda Flicker (both Academy Award winning actors) play a lesbian couple who’ve been together for 31 years. Fricker’s character, Dot
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Danièle Thompson
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christopher Thompson | Claude Rich | Emmanuelle Béart | Françoise Fabian | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Sabine Azéma
Philip says: “Over the past ten years, LA BÛCHE has become a perennial holiday favorite of mine. A score by Michel Legrand containing classic Christmas songs from the 50’s and 60’s, family dysfunction, honesty, anger, and of course a lot
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Aiden Malik | Bria Vinaite | Brooklynn Prince | Christopher Rivera | Valeria Cotto | Willem Dafoe
Philip says: “I wish I had seen Sean Baker’s (TANGERINE) film, THE FLORIDA PROJECT before the Oscars. I would have cheered it on. Baker’s gritty realism witnessed in his stunning Tangerine turns out not to be a flash in the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Christopher Guest
Starring: Catherine O'Hara | Christopher Guest | Eugene Levy | Fred Willard | Jane Lynch | Jennifer Coolidge | John Michael Higgins | Michael McKean | Parker Posey
Philip says: “Revisited the hysterical mockumentary classic, Christopher Guest’s BEST IN SHOW this past weekend. ‘Pine nut… cashew nut… macadamia nut.’ The laughs never end. Jane Lynch had her breakout performance as dog handler Christy Cummings. I’m sure the Glee
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Amira Casar | Esther Garrel | Michael Stuhlbarg | rmie Hammer | Timothée Chalamet | Victoire Du Bois
Chris says: “Reining in the excess that sometimes cheapened his earlier work while retaining his passion and drive, director Luca Guadagnino crafts almost an embarrassment of riches, from a monologue for the ages for the great character actor Michael Stuhlbarg
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Abbie Cornish | Caleb Landry Jones | Frances McDormand | Kerry Condon | Martin McDonagh | Sam Rockwell | Woody Harrelson
Brett says: “If Martin McDonagh hadn’t etched his legacy in cinema with previous films IN BRUGES and SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS, well, he has now. THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI brings dark humor to a contemporary set of issues that keep escalating
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Bill Ross IV | Turner Ross
Chris says: “The Ross Brothers (CONTEMPORARY COLOR) nearly outdo themselves with their latest documentary, a fly-on-the-wall account of the last day of business for a Las Vegas dive bar. Initially resembling a Frederick Wiseman-directed, much seedier version of Cheers, it
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Paul Harrill
Starring: Atheena Firzzell | Christopher Ward | David Cale | Jim Gaffigan | Josh Wiggins | Marin Ireland | Michael Hampton | Rhoda Griffis
Michael says: “I just finished watching a film that I so thoroughly enjoyed, and that moved me to tears at the end, and when thinking back, I’m not sure why. The film has a great premise that could promise chilling
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Arsinée Khanjian | Callum Keith Rennie | David Cronenberg | Don McKellar | Geneviève Bujold | Jackie Burroughs | Roberta Maxwell | Robin Gammell | Sandra Oh | Sarah Polley | Tracy Wright
Michael says: “Dare I say it? Don McKellar has created the most Canadian of apcalyptic movies. I mean that 100% as a compliment, because LAST NIGHT is one of my favorite films of all time. The world is going to
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