Films Archive - Page 817 of 902 - Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film

3 Needles (2006)

Michael says: “3 NEEDLES is Thom Fitzgerald’s A.I.D.S. epic, spanning three continents, telling three stories, and clearlyva movie that was a labor of love, in addition to clearly being a labor of high finances. In Africa, three nuns double as

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13 Tzameti (2006)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Géla Babluani
Starring: George Babluani | Pascal Bongard | Philippe Passon

Bruce says: “**Spoilers Beyond Second Paragraph** “In spite of garnering prizes at Sundance, the Venice Film Festival and the European Film Awards 13 TAZMETI has remained relatively obscure. Beautifully constructed, acted and filmed 13 TZAMETI is an unusual thriller. Sébastian

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Yes (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.375
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Joan Allen | Sam Neill | Shirley Henderson | Simon Akbarian

Michael says: “YES is a challenging and ambitious film. You would expect no less from Sally Potter, the director of ORLANDO and THE TANGO LESSON. It has been a couple of weeks since I saw the film and I still

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Winter Solstice (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Josh Sternfeld
Starring: Aaron Stanford | Allison Janney | Anthony LaPaglia | Mark Webber

Diane says: “Quel disappointment! This story of a father and two sons five years after the mother’s death is a Sundance sponsored film, written and directed by Josh Sternfeld. My guess is that Sternfeld shot three times as many scenes

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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Judy Irving

Bruce says: “Mark Bittner arrived in San Francisco a couple of decades ago hoping to make it big in the music business. He wrote his own songs and performed in local watering holes. Somewhere along the line Bittner realized that

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William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (2005)

Hilary says: “Another triumph of art direction over substance; yawn. “Further proof of how the mighty have fallen: it was particularly depressing watching Al Pacino chew the scenery and deliver his lines as if he was being fed them one

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Wilby Wonderful (2005)

Bruce says: “WILBY WONDERFUL is similar to an Altman film, having a dozen or so characters whose live are intertwined during the course of about twenty four hours. The film opens abstractly until a boot splashes in what we suddenly

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Who’s Camus Anyway? (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Starring: Hinano Yoshikawa | Meisa Kuroki | Shuuji Kashiwabara | Tetsuji Tamayama

Bruce says: “WHO’S CAMUS ANYWAY?, if it is ever distributed, will surely be famous for its lengthy opening shot which introduces all the many main characters and gives us the lay of the land, the land being the central courtyards

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Whole New Thing (2007)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Amnon Buchbinder
Starring: Aaron Webber | Daniel MacIvor | Rebecca Jenkins

Bruce says: “Emerson (Aaron Webber) is the son of ecology minded parents. His mother Kaya (Rebecca Jenkins) designed their house made of bales of straw and his father is Roger Thorsen (Robert Joy) billed as ‘Saving the World, One Invention

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Whisky (2005)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Juan Pablo Rebella | Pablo Stoll
Starring: Andrés Pazos | Jorge Bolani | Mirella Pascual

Michael says: “Several of us watched Buried Treasure nominee WHISKY the other night, and now that a few days have passed, it has really grown on me. Deadpan humor in the style of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, yet with an

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