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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Billy Kent
Starring: Danny DeVito | Parker Posy | Paul Rudd | Winter Ave Zoli
Chris says: “Stars a rarely-better Parker Posey as a Cleveland ad exec who has never had an orgasm, ever. A thin premise and somewhat clumsy script are enlivened by a decent cast: Paul Rudd (shlubby and nearly unrecognizable with copious
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Bill Nighy | Cate Blanchett | Judi Dench | Juno Temple | Max Lewis | Philip Davis
Michael says: “Richard Eyre follows-up IRIS and STAGE BEAUTY with a real romp of a thriller in NOTES ON A SCANDAL. There’s a lot of excess in SCANDAL, and the entire thing really lives and dies by Judi Dench’s performance
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Cara Seymour | Chris Bauer | David Strathairn | Gretchen Mol | Jared Harris | John Cullum | Jonathan M. Woodward | Lili Taylor | Norman Reedus | Sarah Paulson
Michael says: “In theory, the life of Bettie Page seems like a perfect basis for a biopic. A young girl growing up in the 40’s and 50’s, Page travels from Nashville to New York to pursue her dreams of acting.
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Fanta Régina Nacro
Starring: Adama Ouédraogo | Claude Kaboré | Georgette Paré | Moussa Cissé | Naky Sy Savane | Sami Rama | Yves Thombiano
Bruce says: “The 57 countries of Africa are largely the creation of colonists, Europeans who carved up the continent as they licked their chops over their newfound treasures. Most countries consist of many peoples from many cultures. The people of
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Andrew Bujalski | Justin Rice | Rachel Clift
Michael says: “Chlotrudis loves it when a talented, local filmmaker achieves some level of success, and while Andrew Bujalski isn’t a Matt Damon or even an Eliza Dushku, he’s well-known in indie-circles for his debut film, FUNNY HA HA. Now
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Greg Whiteley
Chris says: “Few musicians–heck, few people have undergone as radical a transformation as Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane. In the early ’70s, he was the bassist for the New York Dolls, a thunderously influential (but never commercially successful) cross-dressing glam rock outfit.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Emmanuel Carrère
Starring: Cylia Malki | Emmanuelle Devos | Hippolyte Girardot | Mathieu Amalric | Vincent Lindon
Bruce says: “A meditation on the complexities of intimate relationships, LA MOUSTACHE is successful up to a point. One day, Marc (Vincent Lindon) asks his wife Agnès (Emmanuelle Devos) if he should shave off his moustache. She replies indifferently. When
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michael Kang
Starring: Jade Wu | Jeffery Chyau | Sung Kang
Michael says: “Michael Kang’s first feature film is a traditional coming-of-age tale about a chubby, 13-year-old, Asian-American boy who lives with his mother, grandfather, and younger sister in the seedy, roadside motel that they operate. This compact film starts off
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Rating: 1.75
Director: George Bamber
Starring: Daniel Letterle | David Monahan | Meredith Baxter
Michael says: “The less said about this tired adaptation of Eric Orner’s gay-themed comic strip the better. Revolving around Ethan Greene, searching for love and a committed relationship, but continuously self-sabotaging every one he finds himself in, this film is
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Judy Davis | Kirsten Dunst | Marianne Faithfull
Chris says: “Had I seen MARIE ANTOINETTE ten years ago, I would have walked out the theater flushed and excited, declaring it my favorite of the year. Now, I know a little better to lavish such praise on what is
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