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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Atsuko Hirayanagi
Starring: Josh Hartnell | Kaho Minami | Koji Yakusho | Megan Mullally | Nick Gracer | Reiko Aylesworth | Shinobu Terajima | Shioli Katsuna
Thom says: “Back in the early days when I first embraced Film Movement when I discovered them while a volunteer worker at the Oakland Public Library, I saw all their releases I could find either at the libraries in Oakland
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Alex Descas | Gerard Depardieu | Josiane Balasco | Juliette Binoche | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Philippe Katerine | Sandrine Dumas | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Xavier Beauvois
Chris says: “Leave it to Claire Denis to open her latest by saddling Juliette Binoche with one heck of a blowhard beau and close it on an extended conversation between Binoche and Gerard Depardieu, decidedly *not* her beau (his actual
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Anders Danielsen Lie | Kristen Stewart | Lars Eidinger | Nora von Waldstätten | Sigrid Bouaziz | Ty Olwin
Thom says: “French director Olivier Assayas has been something of an in-and-outer director for me but his best films are indeed world class brilliant. I loved CLEAN (2004), SUMMER HOURS (2008), CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2014), & especially DEMONLOVER, my
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gaspar Noé
Starring: Claude-Emmanuelle | Gajan-Maull | Kiddy Smile | Romain Guillermic | Sofia Boutella | Souheila Yacoub
Brett says: “CLIMAX is the sensory blasts of horror from Edgar Allan Poe copulating with the maniacal and unrelenting beats of modern dance and music. Just when you think Gaspar Noé surely can’t do it again, you experience the mind
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Director: Henry Dunham
Starring: Brian Geraghty | Gene Jones | Happy Anderson | James Badge Dale | Patrick Fischler | Robert Aramayo
Brett says: “Predominantly taking place in one setting, a secret warehouse that serves as a meeting headquarters and equipment storage for a Michigan militia group becomes a hotbed of mystery and mistrust following a mass shooting at a police funeral.
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Director: Ciro Guerra | Cristina Gallego
Starring: Carmiña Martínez | Greider Meza | Jhon Narváez | José Acosta | José Vicente | Natalia Reyes
Brett says: “During awards season, there are always films that champion an underrepresented group that gain attention with their political clout from the people who produce and back the film. Then, there are a films like BIRDS OF PASSAGE that
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Director: William McGregor
Starring: Dyfrig Evans | Eleanor Worthington-Cox | Mark Lewis Jones | Maxine Peake | Richard Elfyn | Richard Harrington
Brett says: “In a sort of vibe of THE WITCH (one of the best films of 2015/2016), GWEN is the debut feature film of director William McGregor. It’s fits the bill of the recent moniker “elevated horror,” and it feels
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Matteo Garone
Starring: Adamo Dionisi | Edoardo Pesce | Francesco Acquaroli | Marcello Fonte | Nunzia Schiano
Brett says: “GOMORRAH director Matteo Garone offers his latest film in another atmospheric urban wilderness with a sympathetic dog groomer named Marcello as the driving force of the film. In this work, this small, frail man earns the audience’s trust and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daniel Schmidt | Gabriel Abrantes
Starring: Anabela Moreira | Carla Marcial | Carlotto Cotta | Chico Chapa | Cleo Tavares | Margarida Moreira
Brett says: “It is a film that lives in a sustained state of delirium and absurdity. It would be worth the price of ticket just to see the audience reactions to the bizarre world of Diamantino, national soccer star of
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Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Ben O’Toole | Caroline Ford | David Wenham | Epine Bob Savea | Monica Bellucci | Tess Haubrich
Brett says: “NEKROTRONIC is an oddball film trying way too hard to appeal to an oddball audience. Full of gadgets and technological mumbo-jumbo, the premise is a world of internet-fueled demon possession. Playing off of the fear of cell phones
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