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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joachim Trier
Starring: Anders Danielson Lie | Hans Olay Brenner | Ingrid Olava | Malin Crepin | Petter Width Kristiansen | Tone Mostraum
Thom says: “Director Trier was responsible for the highly-praised REPRISE (2006) that was also lauded by this viewer so to say I was surprised at how much I disliked this film is putting it mildly. The story takes place over
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Julian Farino
Starring: Alia Shawkat | Allison Janney | Catherine Keener | Hugh Laurie | Leighton Meester | Oliver Platt
Thom says: “Director Farino appears to have laid his groundwork on established, top-of-the-line, television series like ‘SEX & THE CITY,’ ‘BIG LOVE,’ ‘ROME,’ & ‘ENTOURAGE.’ Since a majority of the cast also cut their teeth on television series it only
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan | Ercan Kesal | Firat Tanis | Muhammet Uzuner | Taner Birsel | Yilmaz Erdogan
Michael says: “Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s seventh film (following the outstanding trio of DISTANT, CLIMATES, and THREE MONKEYS continues the trend proving him to be a filmmaker of note. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA clocks in at 157 minutes, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Elisabeth Sperling | Trish Dalton
Bruce says: “ONE NIGHT STAND is a documentary tracking four creative teams as they each labor to create a fifteen minute musical in twenty-four hours. The activities begin at 8:00pm and at 8:00 the following night the curtain rises. The
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Roschdy Zem
Starring: Denis Podalydès | Maurice Bénichou | Nozha Khouadra | Salomé Stévenin | Sami Bouajila
Bruce says: “OMAR KILLED ME holds great promise but falls short. Based on an autobiography by Omar Raddad, the film documents the events and trial surrounding the murder of a wealthy woman Madame Pascal, living on the Côte d’Azur. For
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Jason Cortland | Julia Halperin
Starring: Almex Lee | Gabrielle Maisels | Jason Cortland | Tiffany Esteb
Bruce says: “Written and co-directed by Jason Cortland, NOW, FORAGER also stars the handsome, somewhat off-beat actor. Cortland plays Lucien Echeverria, a thirty-something who, with his wife Regina (Tiffany Esteb), makes a meager living by foraging the forests north of
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Bavo Defurne
Starring: Ben Van den Heuvel | Eva van der Gucht | Mickey | Noor Ben Taoeut | Thomas Coumans
Thom says: “Now retired I find myself attacking more projects to fill my time from awakening until shuteye. It’s been many years since I fully embraced an LGBT Film Festival but with an old mate running the Festival I thought
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Johannes Stjärne Nilsson | Ola Simonsson
Starring: Bengt Nilsson | Fredrik Myhr | Johannes Björk | Magnus Börjeson | Marcus Boij | Sanna Persson
Toni says: “SOUND OF NOISE is a Swedish absurdist, quirky black comedy about a tone deaf detective that hates music whose brother is famous for composing and conducting. “He has to investigate the workings of musical ‘terrorists’ that create mayhem
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Rating: 2.9 cats
Director: John Chuldenko
Starring: Ali Hillis | Erin Chambers | Erin Gray | John Gerbin | Kevin Linehan | Todd Grinnell
Jason says: “NESTING is a nice enough little indie comedy that does nobody any harm and has the occasional pretty decent moment. That’s a nice starting point, but the movie could use a little bit more of everything, from resources
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo
Starring: Elissa Downing | James Warfield | Jason London | Marc Senter | Margaux Lancaster | Richard Portnow
Jason says: “Should horror films necessarily have a consistent mythology that makes its villain’s methods and goals (twistedly) logical, or does such a thing work against it actually being horrifying? A NIGHT OF NIGHTMARES has a lot of elements that
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