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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Craig Chester
Starring: Chris Kattan | Craig Chester | Malcolm Gets | Parker Posey
Michael says: “Actor Craig Chester (GRIEF, SWOON, I SHOT ANDY WARHOL) wrote and directed his first feature film, a broad romantic comedy where the two protagonists are both men. What could have been sweet, and comfortably mainstream like the films
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Michael Apted
Bruce says: “Tony is a kid from the East End, once a rough-and-tumble section of London, now home to many immigrants from Africa and Asia. Jackie, Sue and Lynn hail from similar backgrounds. Simon and Paul were living in a
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ilya Khrjanovsky
Starring: Marina Vovchenko | Sergei Shnurov | Yuri Laguta
Chris says: “This is one of the strangest films I’ve ever seen (and if you know me, that’s saying something). 4 begins with a piano-tuner, a prostitute, and a slaughterhouse worker. Strangers to each other, they meet in a Moscow
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ben Hopkins
Bruce says: “Judging the merits of a documentary can be daunting. Has the filmmaker made a focused statement? Does the film develop a mosaic based on a topic or theme? What about the truth – should the filmmaker be bound
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Starring: Chloe Sevigny | Ian Roberts | Lucy Liu | Olympia Dukakis | Sandra Oh | Shawn Ashmore | Stockard Channing
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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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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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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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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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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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Al Pacino | Charlie Cox | Jeremy Irons | Joseph Fiennes | Kris Marshall | Lynn Collins | Zuleikha Robinson
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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