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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Daniel Liu | Gabe Nevins | Jake Miller | Taylor Momsen
Michael says: “I guess I’ve kind of given up on Gus Van Sant. I enjoyed his early work including MALA NOCHE, DRUGSTORE COWBOY and MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO. For me he peaked as he started eyeing Hollywood with TO DIE
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Beth says: “Paul Gross wrote, directed, co-produced and co-starred in a movie inspired by stories told to him by his grandfather about serving in the Canadian army during WWI and experiencing the horrors of trench warfare and the battle at
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Gabriel Medina
Starring: Daniel Hendler | Jazmin Stuart | Walter Jakob
Beth says: “About a sadsack of an Argentinian writer with writer’s block who finds out that, thanks to a longtime ‘friend’, he is famous in Spain as the quirky leading character in a hit TV show called The Paranoids…a character
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yesim Ustaoglu
Starring: Derya Alabora | Onur Ünsal | Osman Sonant | Ovül Avkiran | Tsilla Chelton
Bruce says: “Nesrin’s husband thinks she is frigid. Nesrin’s son Murat is truant and so detached from reality he seems suicidal. He thinks his mother is controlling. Nesrin’s sister Güzin, a professional single woman, has a destructive relationship going. Their
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Aure Atika | Bérénice Bejo | Jean Dujardin | Philippe Lefebvre
Jason says: “Before CASINO ROYALE was made into a big, modern movie with Daniel Craig, there were persistent rumors about Quentin Tarantino wanting to take a crack at it, but having it take place in the Cold War period when
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Guido Sommer | Jey Crisfar | Katharina Klewinghaus | Marcel Shlutt | Susanne Sachße
Scot says: “Yeah, that’s the title, semicolon and all. It’s writer/director (sometimes actor) Bruce LaBruce’s latest effort and it’s not entirely terrible. I quite liked some of it, in fact, but overall, I think it’s a ‘meh.’ “The premise is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Margaret Brown
Bruce says: “THE ORDER OF MYTHS was recommend to me by fellow Chlotrudis member Rob Jerome, an award-winning photographer whose specialty is photographing festivals and carnivals around the world. The dual Mobile, Alabama Mardi Gras celebrations – one black (MAMGA),
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belén Rueda | Fernando Cayo | Mabel Rivera | Montserrat Carulla | Roger Príncep
Jason says: “This was going to be a negative review; I came out deflated, and if I’d written this right away, that probably would have been the theme. There is a great deal about this film that’s good, though, and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nina Davenport
Michael says: “When Liev Schreiber saw an MTV profile shortly after the fall of Baghdad about Muthana, a young Iraqi who yearned to be a filmmaker, he was touched by the challenges the charismatic young man faced. Schreiber was about
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Director: Thomas Mignone
Starring: Brittany Snow | Clayne Crawford | Josh Janowicz | Shanna Collins | Stephen Sowan
Michael says: “Chlotrudis member and filmmaker Thomas Mignone tackles some pretty tough subject matter in his debut feature, ON THE DOLL. His multi-storylined film features young people working in the sex trade in L.A. and Mignone manages to develop the
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