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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kirby Dick
Bruce says: “Being a huge fan of Kirby Dick’s Chlotrudis award winning documentary THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED, I was rather excited about Dick’s latest film OUTRAGE whose subject is the hypocrisy of gay politicians who routinely vote against
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Anna Tsuchiya | Ayaka Wilson | Koji Yakusho | Sadao Abe | Satoshi Tsumabuki
Jason says: “You could probably cut quite the deceptive trailer for PACO AND THE MAGICAL BOOK, if you chose, by concentrating on the fast-paced, animation-heavy last act. It wouldn’t be a complete misrepresentation, but it sure wouldn’t give a true
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Panna Rittikrai | Tony Jaa
Starring: Dan Chupong | Nirut Sirichanya | Sariunyu Wongkrachang | Sorapong Chatree | Tony Jaa
Jason says: “I haven’t actually run the numbers, but I suspect that martial arts action has an unusually high number of movies titled as though they were sequels but only vague connections to each other, and that’s even before considering
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Beth says: “This was Terence Davies’ commission for the Liverpool Cultural Group, and it’s a wonderful homage to his hometown city – in a sense it’s his MY WINNIPEG, the story of a city via the life of one of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bent Hamer
Starring: Bård Owe | Espen Skjønberg | Henny Moan
Bruce says: “At the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival filmmaker Bent Hamer introduced this film by quipping ‘My producers say my films are comedies. They are not.’ To placate Mr. Hamer I shall refer to his films as ‘droll dramas’
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Gary Hustwit
Jason says: “I forgot my toothbrush when packing for my trip to Texas, and since Austin doesn’t have the massive CVS density of the greater Boston area (where you can see the next from the doorway of the one you
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring: Chamanun Wanwinwatsara | Jayanama Nopachai | Porntip Papanai | Wanida Termthanaporn
Michael says: “Ratanaruang is most widely known for the dreamy surreality of LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE, but this film is more of a sylvan counterpart to his last film, never released in the states, PLOY. In NYMPH, the Thai
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rune Denstad Langlo
Starring: Celine Engebrigtsen | Kyrre Hellum | Mads Sjøgård Pettersen | Marte Aunemo | nders Baasmo Christiansen
Bruce says: “Norwegian film, if it accomplishes nothing else, documents the droll sense of humour in the land of the midnight sun. NORTH is the story of a thirty year old man who is trying to find himself by meeting
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jim Dziura
Jason says: “NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET begins provocatively, with a black man walking into a custom framing store looking to have the clothes he was wearing when he was shot framed. The man at the counter doesn’t seem to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: en Addelman | Samir Mallal
Jason says: “Asked to name the top three film industries in the world, nearly everybody would come up with the United States right away. A good chunk would probably mention India next; the word’s gotten out in the past few
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