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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya | Ken Watanabe | Tsuyoshi Ihara
Bruce says: “Clint Eastwood has proven himself a gifted filmmaker over the years but there is nothing in his portfolio indicating he would create one of the best war films in the history of cinema. The Hollywood hype machine declared
Read the review...Last Man, The (Lebanon/France; 101 min.) directed by: Ghassan Salhabstarring: Carlos Chahine, Raia Haidar, Fayeh Hmaissé Bruce says: “THE LAST MAN is my first Lebanese vampire movie. Don’t think I’m cracking some kind of Rosie O’Donnell joke or making
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jan Schütte
Starring: Barbara Hershey | Elizabeth Peña | Olivia Thirlby | Otto Tausig | Rhea Perlman | Tovah Feldshuh
Bruce says: “Director Jan Schütte has combined three short stories by Isasac Bashevis Singer – ‘Alone,’ ‘The Briefcase,’ and ‘Old Love,’ – into a clever, intelligent screenplay weaving the active imagination of a writer of fiction into the narrative line
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Kelli Garner | Patricia Clarkson | Paul Schneider | Ryan Gosling
Michael says: “To think this is the second film that I have seen in four years that prominently features a Real Doll (the first being the low-budget, creepy horror flick, LOVE OBJECT.) LARS AND THE REAL GIRL is a whimsical
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: AJ Schnack
Beth says: “I really wish this and MONKEY WARFARE had not been literally back to back – my festival highlights came in a clump, as a result. Directed by AJ Schnack, one of Chlotrudis’ Advisory Board members, the film was
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tony Kaye
Chris says: “I can’t think of a more difficult topic for a documentary to tackle than abortion. In his first feature since AMERICAN HISTORY X, director Tony Kaye dives head first into the debate over abortion, examining it from seemingly
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