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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Keren Yedaya
Starring: Dana Ivgy | Meshar Cohen | Ronit Elkabetz
Bruce says: “What happens when the child is forced to care for the parent? After all, that is what eventually happens to most of us. The tables turn. We tend to our aging parents, then in turn, our children care
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Hye-jeong Kang | Ji-tae Yu | Min-sik Choi
Thom says: “I’m really quite curious why this film has been so lauded. With Quentin Tarentino having long established the hatred and insidiousness of the ‘revenge’ film, this had the dubious distinction of trying to go one step further. This
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Andrew Horn
Chris says: “Whenever I write a music review, I usually end up drawing clever/lazy comparisons to other artists, but I honestly wouldn’t know where to begin with Klaus Nomi. A beguiling figure in New York’s new wave scene in the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Campbell Scott
Starring: Amy Brenneman | J.D. Garfield | J.K. Simmons | Joan Allen | Sam Elliott | Valentina de Angelis
Michael says: “The solo directorial effort by actor Campbell Scott (he co-directed BIG NIGHT) is a meditation on place, looking at the mystical, transformative powers of New Mexico through a quiet, quirky family drama. Eleven-year-old Bo plans her getaway from
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Ayru Kitaura | Hiei Kimura | You | YûyaYagira
Michael says: “Eschewing the dreamlike mystery of DISTANCE and MABOROSI, and the mystical backdrop of AFTER LIFE, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda grounds his latest film in the harsh realities of modern day. Akira is the protagonist, a pre-teen, the oldest
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Savi Gavison
Starring: Alon Abutbul | Anat Waxman | Aviv Elkabeth | Ayelet Zorer | Dov Navon | Shmil Ben Ari | Yoram Hattab
Clinton says: “This Israeli film was a real treat, a foreign film that transcends country and language to tell a very human story. This is the world as seen through the eyes of young Nadav. His parents have recently split
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Rodrigo García
Starring: Holly Hunter | Kathy Baker; | Robin Wright Penn | Sissy Spacek
Bruce says: “This star-studded vehicle is divided into nine vignettes each named after the woman who is the main character. Each vignette is a stand alone short film but several characters do pop up in other vignettes. Sissy Spacek figures
Read the review...Night of Truth, The (Burkina Faso/France; 100 min.) directed by: Fanta Régina Nacrostarring: Moussa Cissé; Adama Ouédraogo Bruce says: “The 57 countries of Africa are largely the creation of colonists, Europeans who carved up the continent as they licked
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Rating: 3.4
Director: Pawel Pavlikovsky
Starring: Emily Blunt | Nathalie Press | Paddy Considine
Michael says: “MY SUMMER OF LOVE revolves around two teenaged girls who are drawn together over the course of one summer as kindred spirits who have suffered disappointment especially from the men in their lives. Director Pawel Pavlikowsky, who handled
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Bill Sage | Brady Corbett | Elisabeth Shue | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Michelle Trachtenberg
Bruce says: “We all bring our own baggage into every experience. It is hardly surprising that the effect of any common experience and the baggage we carry away from it will vary for each of us. Most of the time,
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