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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Anthony Hopkins | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Hiroyuki Sanada | Laura Linney | Omar Metwally
Michael says: “I am a huge fan of Peter Cameron’s novel The City of Your Final Destination, so I was looking forward to James Ivory’s adaptation of the same name. The main story follows the journey of a young man
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Brooke Smith | David Andrews | Naomi Watts | Norbert Leo Butz | Sean Penn
Jason says: “FAIR GAME is a good movie that is going to have a target on its back for all the wrong reasons. If the story were relocated and names were changed, both its issues and its strengths would be
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yael Hersonski
TC says: “I can’t describe what an amazing, powerful movie this is. The film focuses on four reels of film shot in 1942 in the Warsaw ghetto by Nazi filmmakers who were making a propaganda film. But for some reason,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robert Pulcini | Shari Springer Berman
Starring: Alicia Goranson | Dan Hedaya | John C. Reilly | Katie Holmes | Kevin Kline | Paul Dano
Jason says: “In general, it’s a bad sign when the main character of a movie isn’t the first name you see in the credits. That’s not a rule you can really rely on, since that sort of thing is often
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Banksy
Chris says: “It’s rare for one film to fully capture how an artistic movement evolves from inception to irrelevance, but that’s just what this ingenuously constructed, gleefully entertaining documentary does for graffiti-inspired guerrilla street art—as it’s all happening, no less.
Read the review...Everyone Else (USA; 108 min.) directed by: Maren Ade starring: Birgit Minichmayr; Lars Eidinger; Hans-Jochen Wagner; Nicole Marischka; Mira Partecke Scot says: “Just watched the German film EVERYONE ELSE, which I quite enjoyed. My concise summary of the film is
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jin Ho Choi
Starring: Chang-ju Lee | Cho Hyun-jae | Geon Kim | Kye Sang Yoon | Su-jeong Jo | Su-yeon Cha | Tae-hee Heo
Jason says: “It’s not hard for a prison movie to get off to a decent start. There is, after all, always a new guy coming in who needs to be shown the ropes and taught the rules. That the new
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Renzo Martens
Diane says: “Looking for a new perspective on global poverty? You’ll enjoy Dutch artist Renzo Martens’ provocative forays into World Bank meetings, UNHCR camps (asking a camp director, ‘If someone wants a shelter, does it -have- to have a logo
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: S. Shankar
Starring: Aishwarya Rai | Danny Denzongpa | Delhi Kumar | Karunas | Rajnikanth | Santhanam
Jason says: “ENDHIRAN is long, uneven, and like many films that attempt to be all things to all people, frequently comes off as a muddled, drawn-out mess. However, the thing about the Indian style of filmmaking – which seems to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Law
Starring: Aarif Lee | Buzz Chung | Evelyn Choi | Paul Chun | Sandra Ng Kwan Yue | Simon Yam
Jason says: “Many filmmakers produce a movie like ECHOES OF THE RAINBOW at some point in their careers. It’s an autobiographical story set in the place and time of the writer/director’s youth, and though I’m not sure whether it’s actually
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