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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Alicja Bachleda | Alison Barry | Colin Farrell | Dervla Kirwan | Marion O'Dwyer | Stephen Rea | Tony Curran
Thom says: “I’ll easily admit that I’ve been a huge fan of many of Jordan’s films including THE CRYING GAME, THE BUTCHER BOY, MONA LISA, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO, & THE END OF THE AFFAIR, but he’s also bombed with some entries (INTERVIEW
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Alex Lutz | Jean Dujardin | Louise Monot | Pierre Bellemare | Reem Kherici | Rüdiger Vogler
Jason says: “I was pretty fond of filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius’s previous comedic revival of the OSS 117 franchise and character (OSS 117 CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES); it did a lot of things right and did them in ways that an
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Laura Poitras
Thom says: “I don’t feel all that strong in criticizing this film, but I simply couldn’t’t absorb it. Both Jandal & Hamdan have past connections to Al Qaeda (Jandal was Osama bin Laden’s personal bodyguard from 1996-2000 & remains a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Henry Joost | Jody Lee Lipes
Starring: Adam Hendrickson | Amar Ramasar | Brittany Pollack | Rebecca Krohn | Tiler Peck
Jason says: “Is ballet the least-appreciated major art form in America? To perform it demands the physical fitness and training of a professional athlete and the skills a professional actor. The music is often lively, and the choreography is intricate,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Irving Schwartz
Starring: Dawn Noel Pignuola | icole LaLiberte | Naama Kates | Ty Jones
Jason says: “MY NORMALl is thoroughly enjoyable, but I’ve got to be honest: It might come off as just another talky indie/mumblecore film if half the cast of characters were not lesbian dominatrices. “Take Natalie (Nicole LaLiberte); she’s a lesbian
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Starring: Benno Fürmann | Florian Lukas | Georg Friedrich | Johanna Wokalek | Simon Schwarz | Ulrich Tukur
Jason says: “I saw a poster advertising a mini festival of ‘climbing movies’ in the same theater where I saw NORTH FACE, and the fact that most of us can instantly deduce what that means probably counts as a strike
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Jason says: “NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS doesn’t initially look remarkable; indeed, midway through it, it appears slight of frame but bloated by music videos; interesting, but trying to be two things and doing neither well. But it eventually
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Andrew Garfield | Carey Mulligan | Charlie Rowe | Ella Purnell | Isobel Meikle-Small | Keira Knightley
Jason says: “NEVER LET ME GO is the sort of science fiction that tends to hide its genre or go by another name – ‘speculative fiction’ or ‘slipstream’ – because it wants to associate itself with a different audience. Science
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif | Chloe Sevigny | Grace Zabriskie | Loretta Devine | Michael Peña | Michael Shannon | Willem Dafoe
Jason says: “The first two credits to appear on the screen in MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE are ‘David Lynch Presents’ and ‘A Film By Werner Herzog.’ If you recognize the names, you know that means there’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dan Eckman
Starring: Aubrey Plaza | D.C. Pierson | Dominic Dierkes | Donald Glover | Matt Walsh
Jason says: “Aw, nuts. Granted, it’s not as if I’m likely to ever actually be able to produce Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators movies, but it’s on my list of things that I would like to do if I
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