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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Kitty Zhang Yugi | Lei Huang | Stephen Chow
Julie says: “I thought CJ7 was a lovely movie. I highly recommend it. I believe it was mentioned during the nominations committee. Has Chlotrudis ever had a category for comedy? This along with PING PONG PLAYA would have been great
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Guido Santi | Tina Mascara
Michael says: “This was the film that Chlotrudis co-presented at Ptown, and I was very pleased by the nearly packed house at the Crown & Anchor. CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY beautifully tells the story of the thirty-year relationship
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Director: Ramin Bahrani
Starring: Ahmad Razvi | Alejandro Palanco | Carlos Zapata | Isamar Gonzales
Tony says: “This is a nice movie about cars. Actually more about parts of cars. I don’t really know anything about cars, but it’s more about this kid and his sister. It all seems to take place near Shea Stadium,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Clark Gregg
Starring: Anjelica Houston | Brad William Henke | Kelly Macdonald | Sam Rockwell
Michael says: “I’m not sure why, but I had high hopes for CHOKE, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel. Victor Mancini is a sex addict attending, but not really involved with, other than physically, a recovery program. His mother
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Chow Yun-fat | Guang Li | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Michelle Yeoh | Radha Mitchell
Julie says: “On another note I just saw THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI based on the true life story of George Hogg. The movie went into development of character relationships a bit more thoroughly than SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE… and deserved better
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Joel Hopkins
Starring: Dustin Hoffman | Eileen Atkins | Emma Thompson | Kathy Baker; | Liane Balaban
Jason says: “Looking at the seven-year gap in Joel Hopkins’s filmography makes me glad that, as much as I like movies, I’m not trying to make them. After all, JUMP TOMORROW had to have been considered something of a success
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nadine Labaki
Michael says: “We saw this French/Lebanese co-production a couple months ago as part of the Sunday Eye Opener, but as it’s opening next weekend, I thought I’d mention it now. Billed as a bit of a STEEL MAGNOLIAS in Beirut,
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Colin Farrell | Ewan McGregor | Hayley Atwell | Peter-Hugo Daly | Philip Davis | Sally Hawkins | Tom Wilkinson
Jason says: “Woody Allen is a bitter old man, and has been for a while. As a young man, he looked at the world around him and laughed at the absurdity, but for the past decade or two his movies
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sarah Gavron
Starring: Christopher Simpson | Satish Kaushik | Tannishtha Chatterjee
Michael says: “Based on an internationally best-selling novel, BRICK LANE explores a plethora of theme including the nature of love, the Muslim community in Britain after 9/11, the empowerment of Indian women, and much more. Sarah Gavron, whose little seen
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Laurie Lynd
Starring: Ben Shenkman | Noah Bennett | Sheila McCarthy | Thomas Cavanaugh
Michael says: “BREAKFAST WITH SCOT was adapted from a lovely novel by Michael Downing that I read several years ago, and despite the fact that it features my husband’s name (correct spelling included) in the title, I had forgotten that
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