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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.9
Director: Billy Ray
Starring: Chloe Sevigny | Hank Azaria | Hayden Christensen | Melanie Lynskey | Peter Saarsgard | Rosario Dawson | Steve Zahn
Chris says: “Here’s a film that should join ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN or ABSENCE OF MALICE as required viewing for all Journalism students. SHATTERED GLASS recreates the incredible story of Stephen Glass, the young New Republic reporter whom in 1998
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Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Fred Weller | Gretchen Mol | Paul Rudd | Rachel Weisz
Peg says: “Based on a stage play of his (and maybe more successful in that format) this was a dark, intriguing little tale of a beautiful grad student and artist (Rachel Weisz) who seduces a geeky museum docent (Paul Rudd)
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu | Amos Gitai | Claude Lelouch | Danis Tanovic | Idrissa Ouedraogo | Ken Loach | Mira Nair | Samira Makhmalbaf | Sean Penn | Shohei Imamura | Youssef Chahine
Starring: Dzana Pinjo | Emmanuelle Laborit | Ernest Borgnine | Jérôme Horry | Kapil Bawa | Keren Mor | Kumiko Aso | Lionel Zizréel Guire | Liron Levo | Maryam Karimi | Nour El-Sherif | Taleb Adlah | Tomorô Taguchi | Vladimir Vega
Laura says: “This outstanding omnibus is a French production featuring a short film from 11 global filmmakers. Their only guidelines were that the film be a reflection on 9/11 and that it be 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Aviva Slesin
Laura says: “When Academy Award winning documentarian Aviva Slesin (THE TEN YEAR LUNCH: THE WIT AND LEGEND OF THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE) returned to Lithuania after fifty years to meet the woman who had saved her as a baby from
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Starring: Gunnar Eyjólfsson | Hélène de Fougerolles | Hilmir Snær Guðnason
Esmé says: “THE SEA is a sort of Icelandic King Lear. An aging patriarch calls his children back from the 4 corners of Europe to give them news of what, they aren’t yet sure. He owns an antiquated fish processing
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Chris Cooper | Jeff Bridges | Tobey Maguire | Valerie Mahaffey
Howard says: “As a docudrama, SEABISCUIT plays wonderfully. Here are reenactments of the most important moments of the horse and the people who loved him. As a piece of cinema it lacks slightly. It’s interesting and even compelling at times,
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Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Adam Pascal | Jack Black | Lucas Papaelias | Mike White
Diane says: “SCHOOL OF ROCK is the film that TO BE AND TO HAVE wanted to be! Great opp. to admire Mike White’s eyelashes once again. Only way this movie could have been improved would be to have shot it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Robb Moss
Diane says: “Documaker Rob Moss revisits some of his rafting pals from a Grand Canyon trip in 1978, made into a docu called ‘riverdogs.’ Too bad he doesn’t give newcomers like me enough context for the first trip and what
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: David Zucker
Starring: Jenny McCarthy | Marny Eng | Pamela Anderson
Howard says: “I wondered when I watched the trailer for SCARY MOVIE 3 why I was laughing so hard. Sure I enjoyed the first two films, but they seemed… amateurish. Yeah, I know the entire series is nothing but crass,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Rose Troche
Starring: Dermot Mulroney | Glenn Close | Jessica Campbell | Kristen Stewart | Mary Kay Place | Patricia Clarkson | Timothy Olyphant
Michael says: “Day 2 of the Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema saw Rose Troche and her third film, THE SAFETY OF OBJECTS. Based on the short stories of A.M. Homes, Troche elegantly weaves the disparate stories into a unified
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