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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Kim Min-hee | Lee Hye-yeong | Mi-So Park | Seo Younghwa | Yunhee Cho
Diane says: “A short but meaty film by Hong Sang-soo: in a suburb of Seoul, a novelist—whose best books may be behind her—visits an old colleague who has given up writing, and serendipitously encounters a filmmaker who’s happy to have
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul B. Preciado
Chris says: “With this unconventional documentary, transgender writer/philosopher/feminist Paul B. Preciado doesn’t so much take Virginia Woolf’s Orlando back from the 1992 Sally Potter film starring Tilda Swinton in the title role as he comprehensively shows how her story about
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Bakhtiyar Panjeei | Jafar Panahi | Mina Kavani | Narges Delaram | Vahid Mobasseri
Diane says: “NO BEARS is the latest from Jafar Panahi, the outlawed Iranian director. I’m still wondering about the tone of the film: I took much of it to be hilarious satire, but I’m not sure that it actually is.
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Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Andrea Frankle | Charles Melton | Chris Tenzis | Cory Michael Smith | Julianne Moore | Natalie Portman
Chris says: I suppose Todd Haynes’ latest does for Lifetime TV movies what his 2002 film FAR FROM HEAVEN did for Douglas Sirk, recreating an aesthetic and carefully tweaking it for postmodern consumption, but it’s also so much more. It
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Billy Luther
Starring: Charley Hogan | Keir Tallman | Martin Sensmeier | Sarah H. Natani
Chris says: “Billy Luther, a Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo filmmaker best known for documentaries (MISS NAVAJO) makes his fiction feature debut with this gentle coming-of-age tale. 11-year-old city kid Benny (Keir Tallman) is sent to spend the summer with
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Aki Kurismaki
Starring: Alina Tomnikov | Alma Pöysti | Janne Hyytiäinen | Jussi Vatanen | Martti Suosalo
Michael says: “Those who appreciate Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki enjoy his incredibly dry wit and deadpan humor. His latest film, FALLEN LEAVES, doesn’t alter his formula, but perhaps takes it even further. The story revolves around two lonely people, Holappa, a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Starring: Daniel Elías | Esteban Bigliardi | Germán de Silva | Margarita Molfino | Mariana Chaud
Chris says: “The longer I sat with this Argentinian film about a bank heist (but not really a heist film per se), the more I appreciated it, even if it really did not need to be three+ hours long. Apart
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Director: Shawn Bannon
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Richie Adams
Starring: Ali Fumiko Whitney | David Brooks | Felicity Keenan | Hermione Corfield | Morven Christie
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Arthur De Larroche
Starring: Amy Benedict | Ashley Michelle Grant | Bobby Hogan | Micaela Wittman | Rob Moore
