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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Benjamin Utzerath | Louis-Do de Lencquesaing | Vincent Nemeth
Bruce says “As he did with the Hermitage in RUSSIAN ARK, Sokurov takes on the Louvre mixing art, history and folklore. In spite of meandering – as a Sokurov film is wont to do – the focus ultimately settles on
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Director: Jake Mahaffy
Starring: David Harewood | Edwina Findley Dickerson | Kathy Smith | Rajay Chandler
Chris says: “Not sure if this will get any kind of distribution, but this IFFBoston title blew me away with its intensity, neorealism, and nuanced approach to its subject matter. It concerns a storefront Pentecostal church in Memphis and a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jonathan Hock
Jason says: “The professional sports industry churns out a tremendous amount of non-fiction films every year, and the number is probably only going up with the sheer number of cable sports channels with time to fill, especially during the off-season.
Read the review...By Michael Colford
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jason Bateman
Starring: Christopher Walken | Jason Bateman | Kathryn Hahn | Nicole Kidman
Michael says: “Just watched a pretty accomplished film called THE FAMILY FANG, starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman, directed by Bateman. This offbeat tale looks at the Fang family, led by a pair of performance artists who put their two
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Gavin Hood
Starring: Aaron Paul | Aisha Takow | Alan Rickman | Armaan Haggio | Barkhad Abdi | Helen Mirren | Phoebe Fox
Jason says: “What one often reads about Unmanned Aerial Vehicle strikes may lead such a person to believe that the way concern about collateral damage drives EYE IN THE SKY marks it as a fantasy, as does the stark, immediate
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claire Carré
Starring: Greta Fernandez | Iva Gocheva | Jason Ritter | Roberto Cots | Silvan Friedman | Tucker Smallwood
Jason says: “The shots of present-day ruins that open EMBERS are a reminder of sorts that worlds end all the time, on the scale of individual hopes and dreams, though those tiny apocalypses are often part of a greater calamity.
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Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Cristina Velasco Lozano | Elmer Bäck | Jakob Öhrman | José Montini | Luis Alberti | Rasmus Slätis
Jeff says: “If Peter Greenaway is your cup of tea, you’ll rank this right up there with his best. As usual his painterly eye makes for some gorgeous visuals, and Elmer Bäck creates a wonderfully louche Eisenstein.” Bruce says:
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Peter Flynn
Jason says: “A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the projectionist at my neighborhood theater by name when talking to a co-worker, and he took the fact that I knew him by name as a sign that maybe I spent
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Rating: 2.75
Director: Philip T. Johnson
Starring: Aaron Graham | Brad Norman | Kenneth Hughes | Kirby O’Connell
Jason says: “There’s an atom-thin line between movies that separate themselves from the pack by being prepared with irreverence, eccentric characters, and black comedy and the ones that fail horribly because injecting that sort of thing into something that wants
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Yokna Hasegawa
Starring: Aki Morita | Chieko Misaka | Norma Aratani | Ryubun Saitou | Tomomi Mabuchi
Jason says: “I initially started this review by writing about how wonderfully weird Japanese science fiction is, no matter what the medium, but the truth is, DUAL CITY isn’t that strange, at least not by those standards. It’s mainly just
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