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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ang Lee
Jason says: “LUST, CAUTION is almost long enough to contain its own sequel, although more in the literary mode where an author revisits characters in a way that seems almost disconnected from the initial work. Ang Lee’s latest doesn’t quite
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yôji Yamada
Starring: Mitsugoro Bando | Rei Dan | Takuya Kimura
Jason says: “As Yôji Yamada’s samurai dramas have become bigger and bigger hits in their native Japan, their American distribution has shrank. This is a real shame, because all three (THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, THE HIDDEN BLADE, and now LOVE AND
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Béla Tarr
Starring: Erika Bók | Gyula Pauer | István Lénárt | Miroslav Krobot | Tilda Swinton | Volker Spengler
Bruce says: “THE MAN FROM LONDON, Béla Tarr’s black and white homage to French film noir, opens with a seemingly never-ending tracking shot that takes your breath away. The camera moves from a reflection of a rope and boat in
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Karim Aïnouz
Starring: Hermila Guedes | Maria Menezes | Zezita Matos
Bruce says: “The film starts out with a home movie of ‘The Day I Got Pregnant.’ Hermila dances around the beach with a blue blanket. She was determined to make this day ‘the happiest day of her life or die
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Rating: 4.6
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Martina Gedeck | Sebastian Koch | Ulrich Mühe
Michael says: “The first few months of every year are usually pretty dry when it comes to quality independent film, and even when you do see good movies, it still feels like you’re playing catch up with the previous year.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bahman Farmanara
Starring: Hedye Tehrani | Jamshid Hashempur | Reza Kianian
Bruce says: “A LITTLE KISS is a poignant essay on aging, friendship, death and dying. Kamal (Jamshid Hashempur) is Iran’s most famous writer. He has a short time left to live and is cared for lovingly by his grandson. His
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Starring: Marcos Mundstock | Norma Aleandro | Norma Argentina
Bruce says: “Love/hate relationships are always good for a few laughs and LIVE-IN MAID serves that axiom well. Beba Pujol is used to having her own way. Belonging to the pampered class, Beba has never learned to pick up after
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Starring: Aki Maeda | Bae Doona | Shiori Sekine | Yu Kashii
Michael says: “What can be better than Japanese school girls in uniform with electric guitars? For sheer, unabashed enjoyment, you can’t get much better than LINDA LINDA LINDA. As the school fair approaches, a teen-aged all-girl band fears it will
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Barry Poltermann | Frank L. Anderson
Chris says: ” Like most of you, I know Charles Nelson Reilly from his 1970s appearances on THE ‘Match Game:’ permanently seated on the panel’s upper right-hand corner next to his foil, Brett Sommers, he was that decade’s Paul Lynde,
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Bruce says: “LIGHTS IN THE DUSK is the third film in a trilogy Kaurismäki calls ‘films about losers.’ Unlike its immediate predecessor, THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST, this film is difficult to grasp. That is largely due to the blandness
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