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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Chang Chen | Di Mei | Liao Su-jen | Mei Fang | Shu Qi
Bruce says: “Hou Hsaio-hsien covers three different decades within the last 100 years. The actors Qi Shu and Chen Chang play the lead characters in all three vignettes. ‘A Time for Love’ begins with a game of pool while the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Benjamin Bratt | Keanu Reeves | Lou Taylor Pucci | Tilda Swinton | Vincent D'Onofrio
Michael says: “Mike Mills’ THUMBSUCKER is a coming-of-age film that features some terrific performances but doesn’t really say anything new. Justin is a senior in high school who still sucks his thumb when he is stressed. He’s on the debate
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Rating: 1.75
Director: Donal Logue
Starring: Donal Logue | Jason Isaacs | Kirk Fox | Stephen Dorff
Scot says: “I really did write this outside the Brattle before the film’s climax occurred, but found that I couldn’t send via my Blackberry: “One of the worst films I’ve seen in recent years. Actually, I am outside the Brattle
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mark Wexler
Bruce says: “TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE is a documentary about the filmmaker Haskell Wexler, a two time Oscar winner for cinematography, directed by his son Mark Wexler. Part way through TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE one of the talking
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Avi Lewis
Michael says: “Continuing the trend of political or socially conscious films, the Canadian team of writer Naomi Klein and director Avi Lewis (both political activists – Klein appeared in THE CORPORATION) offer their first documentary, THE TAKE. This sometimes powerful,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Starring: Geun-yeung Mun | Jung-ah Yum | Su-jeong Lim
Michael says: “I am a fan of the Asian ‘hair horror’ genre kicked off so wonderfully several years ago by RINGU. Strangely enough, so does the American movie market. A TALE OF TWO SISTERS is a Korean entry into the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Paula Yates
Bruce says: “As political documentaries go STATE OF FEAR is absolutely compelling and nearly perfect. Using the twenty year reign of terror in Peru from 1980-2000, director Pamela Yates explores how terrorism in Peru led to the erosion of democracy.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: William Eggleston
Bruce says: “Robert Gordon who has worked with Eggleston for many years, edited over 30 hours of film into a 76 minute film. The footage Gordon edited is the only non-still photography that Eggleston has taken on. He passionately pursued
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Anna Paquin | Jeff Daniels | Jesse Eisenberg | Laura Linney
Michael says: “Noah Baumbach’s look at an intellectual family coming apart at the seams is funny and mildly horrifying at the same time. Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney play a pair of authors with two children. Daniels’ Bernard Berkham is
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Fien Troch
Starring: Jan Decleir | Josse De Pauw | Natali Broods
Bruce says: “SOMEONE ELSE’S HAPPINESS is a story of loss, guilt and suspicion. The opening shots are gorgeous; a sudden thud is heard and the camera pans to a child who is struggling to get up alongside a road but
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