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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.6
Director: Michael Moore
Greg says: “Em and I saw this film at the Toronto Film Festival and it got like a 10 minute standing ovation after it screened. It’s more in-depth and serious than his other films, as it tackles the perplexing and
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Daniel Gold | Judith B. Helfand
Laura says: “When Judy Helfand’s parents had her childhood home sided with blue vinyl, she was determined to find a cost-effective, more environmentally friendly, alternative. Judy and her co-director Daniel Gold (who won the Sundance cinematography award for this) begin
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Allan Gildea | Gerard Crossan | James Nesbitt | Mary Mould
Laura says: “Writer/director Paul Greengrass (THE THEORY OF FLIGHT) consulted Don Mullan, author of Eyewitness Blood Sunday, who had read the hundreds of civilian accounts ignored by the first official inquiry into the massacre and decided to tell his story
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Arliss Howard
Starring: Arliss Howard | Debra Winger | Paul Le Mat | Rosanna Arquette
Robin says: “BIG BAD LOVE is definitely an interesting character study of a man on a downward spiral in his life. The self-destruction is, sometimes, painful to watch but the final note of redemption cushions Leon’s long fall, giving the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Henry Bean
Starring: Billy Zane | Ryan Gosling | Summer Phoenix | Theresa Russell
Laura says: “Ryan Gosling gives a breakout perf in this film about a conflicted Jew who’s become a Nazi skinhead. Henry Bean’s screenplay is of note as well.” 4 cats For Laura’s complete review: “http://www.reelingreviews.com/thebeliever.htm” Robin says: “This is
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Starring: Lin Cui | Shuan Li | Xun Zhou | Yuanyuan Gao
Michael says: “Here was a startling film that begins as a charming, warm-hearted tale of a country boy struggling to cope with life in the big city of Beijing, and ends as a cynical, pointed look at today’s society, and
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Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Starring: Aki Maeda | Masanobu Andô | Takeshi Kitano | Taro Yamamoto | Tatsuya Fujiwara
Ivy says: “I dont know how many of you know about this film, or have already watched it, but I just watched the tape of BATTLE ROYALE (copied from a Japanese DVD) that was given to us months ago by
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Greg Kinnear | Maria Bello | Rita Wilson | Ron Leibman | Willem Dafoe
Laura says: “Michael Gerbosi’s adaptation of the Robert Graysmith book The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith suggests that Carpie wanted more than companionship from Crane and fed the man and ever increasing stream of women to maintain the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Majid Majidi
Starring: Hossein Abedini | Mohammad Amir Naji | Zahra Bahrami
Diane says: “Another gem from Majid Majidi, director of my fave THE COLOR OF PARADISE. “Lateef, a clownish young Iranian construction worker, changes his ways when he discovers who his nemesis–an Afghani boy who took his job–really is. Lateef jeopardizes
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Arsinée Khanjian | Christopher Plummer | David Alpay
Michael says: “I had no idea what to expect with Atom Egoyan’s new film ARARAT. It has received many negative reviews and scant few good ones. As a big Egoyan fan, I was worried. Would this be the first of
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