Krudttønden (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Starring: Henrik Vestergaard | Jakob Oftebro | Lars Brygmann | Nicolaj Kopernikus | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau | Sonja Richter
Yakuza Princess (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Vicente Amorim
Starring: Charles Paraventi | Eijiro Ozaki | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Kenny Leu | Lucas Oranmian | Mariko Takai | MASUMI | Tsuyoshi Ihara
We Need to Do Something (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sean King O'Grady
Starring: John James Cronin | Lisette Alexis | Ozzy Osbourne | Pat Healy | Sierra McCormick | Vinessa Shaw
Days (2021)
By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Anong Houngheuangsy | Kang-sheng Lee
Chris says: “Tsai Ming-liang’s a filmmaker who tends to make the same kind of picture over and over, like Yasujiro Ozu (to name one of his precursors) or Hong Sang-Soo (a contemporary.) This isn’t a deterrent, for nearly three decades
Read the review...Titane (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Julia Ducournau
Starring: Agathe Rousselle | Diong-Kéba Tacu | Garance Marillier | Laïs Salameh | Mara Cisse | Marin Judas | Vincent Lindon
Brett says: “Julia Ducournau is doing what no one else in cinema is doing. This does not always translate to automatically being good, but this director is inventive and finding ways to give legs to outlandish and logic-defying cinema, so
Read the review...Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Chang-Bin Jen | Chao-jung Chen | Kang-sheng Lee | Tien Miao | Yi-ching Lu | Yu-Wen Wang
Michael says: “When Chris mentioned recently that he caught Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD, I realized that I too had never gone back to watch this film from one of my favorite directors. What I perhaps
Read the review...To Have and To Have Not (1944)
By Michael Colford
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Dolores Moran | Hoagy Carmichael | Humphrey Bogart | Lauren Bacall | Sheldon Leonard | Walter Brennan | Walter Szurovy
Michael says: “After a slight slip with KEY LARGO, we’re back in business. Set in Martinque during WWII, Harry Morgan is an Amiercan ex-pat who reluctantly transports a leader in the French Resistance and his wife to the island, all
Read the review...Key Largo (1948)
By Michael Colford
Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Huston
Starring: Claire Trevor | Edward G. Robinson | Harry Lewis | Humphrey Bogart | John Rodney | Lauren Bacall | Lionel Barrymore | Marc Lawrence | Thomas Gomez
Michael says: “After seeing THE BIG SLEEP, I had to watch the rest of Bogie and Bacall’s oeuvre. Count me as one of the many who are smitten by their chemistry. I’m particularly taken by Lauren Bacall’s assured and powerful
Read the review...Alphaville (1965)
By Michael Colford
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Akim Tamiroff | Anna Karina | Eddie Constantine
Michael says: “It was about 30 minutes into ALPHAVILLE when I realized I don’t think I like Godard’s films. Now I’ve only seen two, this one and BREATHLESS, so I am still open to more (BAND OF OUTSIDERS and VIVRE
Read the review...Bel Canto (2018)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Paul Weitz
Starring: Bobby Daniel Rodriguez | Christopher Lambert | Ethan Simpson | Joe Hernandez | Julianne Moore | Ken Watanabe | Noe Hernandez | Olek Krupa | Ryo Kase | Sebastian Koch | Tenoch Huerta
Thom says: “Adapted from the Ann Patchett international best-seller this film is a powerful drama with tragic implications. A world famous opera diva (always great Moore) is hired to perform for a wealthy South American industrialist when in the midst
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