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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Starring: Jae Hee | Kwon Hyuk-ho | Lee Seung-yeon
Tom says: “I saw at least 2 dozen films at last years Toronto Film Festival, but the one that stayed with me was the Korean film 3-IRON. “This delicate, quiet yet whimsical movie establishes Kim Ki-Duk’s (SUMMER, SPRING, SOMETHING AND
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Starring: Faye Wong | Gong Li | Tony Leung | Zhang Zhiyi
Thom says: “I was looking forward to seeing this film almost more than any other I knew about. With Wong Kar Wai as director and starring Tony Leung, Li Gong, Ziyi Zhang, Maggie Cheung, & Faye Wong how could it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Beat Takeshi | Gadarukanaru Taka | Michiyo Ookusu | Michiyo Yasuda | Tadanobu Asano
Diane says: “Samurai spaghetti western with a heavy dose of MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL. While samurai gangs destroy each other, Kitano shows what’s happening to the disenfranchised regular folks. Beat Takeshi, playing the lead role of THE BLIND
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Director: Ramadan Suleman
Starring: Mpumi Malatsi | Pamela Nomvete | Sophie Mgcina
Bruce says: “In the 1960’s many South African men went into exile leaving the women to raise the children. Supposedly 80% of South African leaders were brought up by single mothers. The writer and director of ZULU LOVE LETTER were
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alexandra Cassevetes
Hilary says: “Xan (Alexandra) Cassavetes’ first feature-length foray into the ‘family business’ tells the story of Z Channel, the the nation’s first pay-cable station, founded in 1974 in LA. “Z Channel’s founder, Jerry Harvey, was a rabid cinemaphile who influenced
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Emily Mortimer | Ewan MacGregor | Ewan Stewart | Jack McElhone | Pauline Taylor | Peter Mullan | Stuart McQuarrie | Therese Bradley | Tilda Swinton
Chris says: “YOUNG ADAM features Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton having lots of steamy, hot sex in the repressed 1950s. It’s not a skeezy film, nor a really pleasurable one. At least no one pays too dearly for their sins;
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Director: Chris Smith | Dan Ollman | Sarah Price
Chris says: “Hilarious documentary on two satirists-cum-activists who pose as WTO members to educate the public about that organization’s damaging effects on corporate politics, third world ecosystems and beyond. A little more entertaining than provocative, it’s a sly diversion that
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: John Kent Harrison
Starring: Alfre Woodard | Alison Elliot | David Dorfman | Gregory Smith | Kate Nelligan | Katie Stuart
Robert says: “Author Madeleine L’Engle has been compared to titans like Isaac Asimov, both for the sheer volume of her literary output and the wide variety of it. L’Engle’s Newberry Award-winning young adult fantasy novel, A Wrinkle In Time, first
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Eric Chaikin | Julian Patrillo
Michael says: “Shades of SPELLBOUND! This doc focused on 4 contenders for the National Scrabble Championship. The film follows the four as the spend a year preparing for the tournament, both exploring their lives and their Scrabble successes and failures.
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Starring: Alla Shcherbakova | Hongwei Wang | Jue Jing | Taisheng Chen | Yiqun Huang | Zhong-wei Jiang | Zhongwei Jiang
Bruce says: “‘Give us a day, we’ll show you the world,’ is the slogan of The World, a Beijing theme park where replicas of world famous monuments sit side-by-side usually downscaled to give consistency to the overall ambiance of the
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