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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Olivier Assaya
Starring: Charles Berling | Chloe Sevigny | Connie Nielsen | Gina Gershon
Michael says: “Well, the several Chlotrudis members who attended the second installment of the Sunday Eye-Opener were treated with a sneak preview of Olivier Assayas’ stylish tale of corporate cyber-espionage. Assayas, whose IRMA VEP is a cherished fave film of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Josef Bierbichler | Juliane Heinemann | Katja Studt | Nina Petri
Michael says: “Tom Tykwer introduced his first feature film, DEADLY MARIA, to a sold out theatre at the Museum of Fine Arts last night. It was great seeing all those Chltorudis members, including Tim, Sara Rubin and new members Erin
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Rating: 3.25
Director: John Malkovich
Starring: Elvira Mínguez | Javier Bardem | Juan Diego Botto | Laura Morante
Esmé says: “I thought Javier Bardem was great in this. I really liked this movie, the story, the filming, the understated way Malkovich showed us the lifestyle of the characters. The tension, the revelation, awesome! (A terrorist group is threatening
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ron Shelton
Starring: Kurt Russell | Michael Michele | Scott Speedman
Laura says: “Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman, DUETS) seemingly has it made. His uncle Jack (Brendan Gleeson, GANGS OF NEW YORK) is the head of SIS, his partner Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell, VANILLA SKY) is a favored veteran and he’s just
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Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh | Mark Ruffalo | Meg Ryan
Bruce says: “This film is a textbook for fatal flaws in filmmaking. With one exception – an absolutely perfect performance from Mark Ruffalo – IN THE CUT is a total mess. Mark Ruffalo knows his character and captures every earthy,
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Matthew Barney
Starring: Aimee Mullins | Matthew Barney | Paul Brady | Richard Serra
Laura says: “Multi-media artist Matthew Barney explores the evolution of form via Celtic mythology, automotives, biology and vaseline in his five part Cremaster cycle, which began in 1994 with CREMASTER 4 and move from a state of ascendance to descendance
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Alexander Rughozhkin
Starring: Anni-Christina Juuso | Viktor Bychkov | Ville Haapasalo
Bob says: “What I liked most about this film is the way the language barrier between the characters is used to drive the story forward – often to delay it. After the first few conversations, the fact that no one
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Rating: 2.25
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Aaron Eckhart | Delroy Lindo | Hilary Swank | Stanley Tucci
Laura says: “When 32 pacemaker wearers drop dead in Boston and misguided pigeons wreck havoc in London’s Tralfalgar Square Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart, POSSESSION) forms a theory that a problem with the earth’s electromagnetic field, formed by the
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Director: Wayne Kramer
Starring: Alec Baldwin | Joey Fatone | Maria Bello | Paul Sorvino | William H. Macy
Hilary says: “In this formulaic yarn William H. Macy plays Bernie Lootz, the unluckiest fella ever. Lootz is a ‘cooler’ working to spread his bad luck to the patrons of The Golden Shangri-La, an old-school Las Vegas casino run by
Read the review...Company, The (USA/Germany; 112 min.) directed by: Robert Altmanstarring: Neve Campbell; Malcolm McDowell; James Franco Jane says: “THE COMPANY was pretty awful in my estimation. No character development, just situations playing out in often unrealistic ways. (Why did Neve’s
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