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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Dunne
Jason says: “Addiction to prescription medication is hardly limited to rural America, but it thrives there. The reasons why communities like Oceana, West Viginia have such a serious problem with…
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nobuteru Uchida
Starring: Kiki Sugino | Maho Yamada | Makiko Watanabe | Takeshi Yamamoto | Yû Koyanagi | Yûki Shinohara
Bruce says: “ODAYAKA is a psychological study regarding how people react to disaster. Inspiration for the film was drawn from real life events, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami which caused…
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Chad Hartigan
Starring: Demetrius Grosse | Kristin Slaysman | Paul Eenhoorn | Richmond Arquette | Tom Plunkett
Chris says: “Deceptively simple and effortlessly graceful, this character study is the type of American indie you wish would receive the release and promotional heft of something like THE WAY…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joshua Sanchez
Starring: Aja Naomi King | E.J. Bonilla | Emory Cohen | Kathryn Meisle | Wendell Pierce
Thom says: “This is an amazingly problematic, thoughtful, but off-putting film. It’s a 4-character study that starts out with a middle-age roly-poly African American salesman, Joe, having an assignation with…
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Starring: Aaron Poole | Jill Hennessy | Martha Plimpton | Peter Stormare | Stephen Eric McIntyre
…close to home. Echoes of FARGO abound, in this economically constructed character study. 4 cats” Jason says: “A body is found at the beginning of SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS,…
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Rating: 2.3
Director: Alex Gibney | Allison Ellwood
…filmed hours and hours of footage along the way, but never edited it into a complete, watchable film as the sound was out of sync and mostly unintelligible. Directors Alex…
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Rating: 3.6
Director: Vera Farmiga
Starring: Dagmara Dominczyk | Donna Murphy | John Hawkes | Joshua Leonard | Vera Farmiga
…causing waves that ripple outward and affect those around her. Really a dramatic character study peppered with thoughtful introspection, realistic questioning of life, and everyday comedies and tragedies of life,…
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Clio Barnard
…interviews are scenes from Dunbar’s plays performed as living theatre on estate’s sidewalks and common areas. “While a traditional approach could have probably displayed Dunbar’s life more than adequately, this…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucrecia Martel
Starring: César Bordón | Claudia Cantero | Daniel Genoud | Guillermo Arengo | Inés Efron | Maria Onetto
…a successful dentist in a rural Argentine town, fumbles for her cell phone as she speeds down a lonely road. She hits something and stops. She spends a minute composing…
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elijah Drenner
…is not just an example of how the memorable B-movies are the ones where the filmmakers were as committed as they would be to any more legitimate project, but comes…
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