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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Cindy Meehl
Toni says: “The inspiring story of Buck Brannaman. He took bad from the past and made good by translating it to understanding horses as a real live horse whisperer. As many have mentioned, you really don’t have to be into
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yu Li
Starring: Bingbing Fan | Bo-lin Chen | Lisi Danni | Sylvia Chang | Yu Chen | Zhenjiang Bao
Jason says: “It doesn’t always work out this way, but ending the trip to New York City for the Asian Film Festival with BUDDHA MOUNTAIN turned out to be a nice way to decompress. After a non-stop barrage of movies
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Rowan Joffe
Starring: Andrea Riseborough | Helen Mirren | John Hurt | Philip Davis | Sam Riley
Thom says: “This absorbing adaptation of the great Graham Greene (how could he have not won the Nobel prize is a mystery) novel is a remake of a 1947 entry which I haven’t seen which starred the young Richard Attenborough.
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Jenjira Pongpas | NatthakarnAphaiwonk | Sakda Kaewbuadee | Thanapat Saisaymar
Ibad says: “UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, which enchanted Tim Burton’s jury this year to a Palme D’Or win at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a mystifying and exquisite crowning jewel on Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Hitomi Satô | Jun Inoue | Keisuke Horibe | Rie Tomosaka | Ryô Nishikido | Shiori Kutsuna
Jason says: “A BOY AND HIS SAMURAI has a well-worn fantasy premise that could have very easily proceeded in a very predictable fashion. However, even if the original novel it was based on did not have its time-lost samurai discovering
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Richard Weiss
Starring: Dennis Duggan | Genevieve Antaky | Julia Sanford | Pamela Wycliffe | Stan Weston
Jason says: “As remarkably inept as THE BOOK is, I was still willing to give it a recommendation of the ‘guilty pleasure’ variety, almost entirely for its commitment to its retro-bizarre style. A man can only take so much, though,
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Eduard Fernández | Guillermo Estrella | Hanaa Bouchaib | Javier Bardem | Maricel Álvarez
Thom says: “I have no idea why it took me so long to see this cinematic gem. The film was nominated for best Foreign Film in the 2010 Oscar race, Javier Bardem is always a mesmerizing actor, & I’ve become
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Richard Press
Diane says: “A killer! Bill Cunningham is a New York Times fashion photographer, now 82, whose humility and modest lifestyle belie a single-minded passion. A great study of a man and his unceasing search for beauty. You will fall in
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Stevan Mena
Starring: Alexandra Daddario | Brett Rickaby | Michael Biehn | Nolan Gerard Funk | Spencer List
Thom says: “This is an unusually well-made horror film that is positively horrifying, and definitely nor for the feint-of-heart. If graphic horror films leave you repulsed or disturbed don’t see this shocker. In the prologue of the film a 6-year-old
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Evan Glodell
Starring: Evan Glodell | Jessie Wiseman | Rebekah Brandes | Tyler Dawson | Vincent Grashaw
Jason says: “The end of a relationship can certainly seem like the end of the world, and while BELLFLOWER is not explicitly post-apocalyptic, it takes a number of its cues from that direction. It’s not the first love story to
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