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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.25
Director: Matthew Parkhill
Starring: Gael García Bernal | James D'Arcy | Natalia Verbeke
Hilary says: “I’m terming this one Gael Garcia Bernal’s DIRTY DANCING: HAVANA NIGHTS. Please avoid the Hollywood Normative route your Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN costar has taken, GGB! “This flick has an enjoyably sick twist but no substance, so isn’t
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Hidetoshi Nishijima | Miho Kanno | Tatsuya Mihashi
Chris says: “Made before THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI, this is surely one of Takeshi Kitano’s unlikeliest features. Taking a cue from the Japanese tradition of Bunraku puppet plays, the film presents three intertwined love stories based on them. The first
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Beto Brant
Starring: Felipe Ehrenberg | Lilian Taublib | Marco Ricca
Bruce says: “An effete intellectual theatre critic finds that his written words are powerful enough to seduce women. The smart set – those in Brazilian artistic circles – all know who he is, an unusual position for a writer. One
Read the review...Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Romania; 154 min.) directed by: Cristi Puiustarring: Ion Fiscuteanu, Monica Barladeanu, Doru Ana Bruce says: “Dante Remus Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) wakes up one morning with a splitting headache and severe nausea. A widower for ten
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shona Auerbach
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Gerard Butler | Jack McElhone | Mary Riggans
Bruce says: “Pulling your heartstrings from every conceivable direction, DEAR FRANKIE is unabashedly sentimental. Just when you think that one more heartbreaking moment will be absolutely unbearable the film takes some turns that give pause to wonder why you had
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sebastián Cordero
Starring: Alfred Molina | Damián Alcázar | John Leguizamo | José María Yazpik | Leonor Watling
Bruce says: “Similar in message to CAPOTE, this film tells the story of a reporter who is willing to compromise his integrity for fame and professional recognition. What makes the film interesting is how this comes about, a grim reminder
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hubert Sauper
Bruce says: “DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE is an atypical political documentary. It understates its case. About fifty years ago a lone fisherman introduced Nile perch into Lake Victoria. Until that time Lake Victoria was a source of food for much of Tanzania.
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Rating: 2.9 cats
Starring: Brendan Fraser | Don Cheadle | Matt Dillon | Ryan Phillippe | Sandra Bullock | Thandie Newton | Tony Danza
Amanda says: “I just saw CRASH last night and I cannot stop thinking about it. Sign of: good film that you want to share (like this), bad film that you want people to avoid (I don’t know if I should
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Amy Stewart | Darcy Fehr | Melissa Dionisio
Chris says: “If Guy Maddin’s most accessible effort, THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD, failed to move you, I’m not even going to try to convince you to check out this hour-long film that was made roughly around the same
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Bernard Otieno Oduor | Bill Nighy | Damaris Itenyo Agweyu | Daniele Harford | Danny Huston | Hubert Koundé | Rachel Weisz | Ralph Fiennes
Bruce says: “Had anyone asked I would have said John Le Carré is prolific, but that is hardly the case considering he has published only eighteen novels in forty four years. “Le Carré (The Tailof of Panama, The Spy Who
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