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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Ronald Bronstein
Starring: Carmine Marino | David Sandholm | Dore Mann | Paul Grimstad
Toni says: “At 106 minutes, Ronnie Bronstein’s semi-autobiographical FROWNLAND is a real crowd splitter. He has admitted that he wants his audience to fee much pain during the screening. Therefore, he certainly has accomplished twhat we set out to do
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Caroline Suh
Bruce says: “FRONTRUNNERS is slightly more interesting than watching paint dry, a bit like reading about someone eating sushi while typing their latest entry on Facebook, a more up-to-date version for wasting time. This film follows four couples who are
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Virginia Anita Williams | Virginia Williams
Jason says: “The ending of FRONTRUNNER is a matter of the public record, so I don’t feel like I’m spoiling much of anything by saying that it does not have a triumphant fairy-tale ending: In Afghanistan’s first democratic ever, after
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jacques Nolot
Starring: Bastien d’Asnières | Bernard Herlem | Bruno Moneglia | Jacques Nolot | Lionel Goldstein | Marc Riofoul
Bruce says: “What becomes of the many hustlers and gigolos who are objects of desire in their youth, then fade out of sight? Some miraculously survive but many die along the way, succumbing to AIDS, murder or substance abuse. BEFORE
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Starring: Cherry Pie Picache | Eugene Domingo | Jiro Manio | Kier Segundo
Bruce says: “Brillante Mendoza completed six feature films within a three year period, 2005-2007. He is working at a speed not seen since the salad days of Fassbinder although, age-wise, Mendoza (age 48) is about two decades behind Fassbinder (who
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Ciarán Hinds | Claire Forlani | Jamie Bell | John Paul Lawler | Lucy Holt | Sophia Myles
Bruce says: “David Mackenzie is succeeding in bringing unconventional stories to the screen such as THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS and YOUNG ADAM. MISTER FOE is a perfect companion piece for those earlier films. MISTER FOE is a coming-of-age tale which
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Fang Song | Hippolyte Girardot | Juliette Binoche | Simon Iteanu
Chris says: “A few years back, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien traveled to Japan to make CAFÉ LUMIÈRE, a charming, languid tribute to one of that country’s greatest filmmakers, Yasujiro Ozu. In this, his first non-Asian effort, he has crafted the
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Madonna
Starring: Eugene Hutz | Holly Weston | Richard E. Grant | Vicky McClure
Michael says: “I’m not sure what I expected from Madonna’s directorial debut, but I know the main reason why I came was because of a fairly positive review I read from the Berlin Film Festival. Had I dug a little
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Kristian Levring
Starring: Lars Brygmann | Paprika Steen | Ulrich Thomsen
Bruce says: “Mikael (Ulrich Thomsen) is on six week leave from his job. Is he fighting boredom or depression? The answer seems apparent when his bother-in-law Frederik (Lars Brygmann) mentions that his hospital is involved in trials for a new
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Anne Sundberg | Ricki Stern
Bruce says: “Based on Naomi Wolf’s book of the same name, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg have chosen to present the material to the viewer as a series of Wolf’s lectures and interviews as well as gathering the opinions
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