…her age and together they build a secret fort and enjoy each other’s company. The pleasures of nature and companionship are rendered in a way that conjures the simple structure…
Read the review...Spotlight On… Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) ()
…about GIGANTIC (A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) visit the film’s official website at http://www.giganticfilm.com/. For message boards and late-breaking information about the film join the giganticfilm newsgroup at yahoo. For…
Read the review...20th Annual Awards, March 16, 2014 ()
By Michele Meek
…the woman Laurence loves, whose journey ks the more complex and compelling. The two leads, Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément are up to this elaborate task and deliver the highs…
Read the review...Sideways (2004)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Paul Giamatti | Sandra Oh | Thomas Haden Church | Virginia Madsen
…that when men hit a mid-life crisis they need to sleep around, drink a lot, publish a novel, or do something to validate their potency/success. When women hit a mid-life…
Read the review...The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Alan Rudolph
Starring: Campbell Scott | Dennis Leary | Hope Davis | Robin Tunney
…suspects his wife of having an affair, his sudden jealousy and odd behavior cause both to examine their hopes and expectations for marriage and how they compare with the reality….
Read the review...Photograph (2019)
By Michael Colford
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ritesh Batra
Starring: Denzil Smith | Nawazuddin Siddiqui | Sachin Khedekar | Sanya Malhotra
…is a street photographer who takes pictures of tourists in front of cultural landmarks. He happens upon Miloni, a young woman who is studying for her accounting certification (she passed…
Read the review...The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Brian Knappenberger
Jason says: “It’s a horribly clinical thing to say, but building a movie around someone who committed suicide requires even more care than other documentaries. It distorts the audience’s perceptions…
Read the review...I Am Love (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher | Diane Fleri | Edoardo Gabbriellini | Flavio Parenti | Marisa Berenson | Pippo Delbono | Tilda Swinton
…of a foreign buyout of the Recchi’s company. Tancredi is a complete enigma; the third child is so sketchily drawn that I honestly wasn’t sure whether Gianluca was meant to…
Read the review...Leviathan (2015)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.9
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Starring: Aleksey Serebryakov | Elena Lyadova | Roman Madyanov | Vladimir Vdovitchenkov
…the community, whose members all contribute (often implicitly) to the film’s eventual outcome, or the domestic drama that initially seethes between the margins, only later occupying a central place in…
Read the review...Board of Directors & Membership ()
By Michele Meek
…the Society’s Website Committee. Jana Seitzer is editor-in-chief/founder of Whisky + Sunshine, comic nerd, and oenophile who splits her time between NY and VT when she’s not theme park…
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