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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Yvan Attal
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Noémie Lvovsky | Terence Stamp | Yvan Attal
Michael says: “This delightful French film looks at a sports writer who has difficulty dealing with the fact that his wife is a famous actress. When she travels to London to work on a film that co-stars a well-known, actor,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Catherine McCormack | Elizabeth Hurley | Josh Lucas | Sarah Polley | Sean Penn
Michael says: “Completed in 2000, this schizophrenic film starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth Hurley, Sarah Polley and Catherine McCormack is finally being released this fall. Based on a best-selling Anita Shreve novel, and directed by action lenser Bigelow (NEAR DARK, POINT
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Larry Fessenden
Starring: Erik Per Sullivan | Jake Weber | John Speredakos | Patricia Clarkson
Michael says: “Larry Fessenden’s chilling tale of a family from the city encountering supernatural forces in the wilderness is also a deft character study that utilizes a lot of low- budget tricks in an excellent way. “George and Kim, along
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Joel Zwick
Starring: Andrea Martin | John Corbett | Lainie Kazan | Michael Constantine | Nia Vardalos
Ellen says: “For some reason I feel guilty about seeing MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING. On some level it seems mainstream and I haven’t seen anyone else post about it. But, I will announce here that I thoroughly enjoyed the
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Gary Burns
Starring: Don McKellar | Fab Filippo | Gordon Currie | Marya Delver
Ellen says: “I was one of the individuals fortunate enough to catch the U.S. premiere of WAYDOWNTOWN last night. After a wonderful dinner with Gary Burns and Don McKellar, the film kept the laughter going for me. I’ll state at
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Koji Yakusho | Mansaku Fuwa | Misa Shimizu | Mitsuko Baisho
Laura says: “Imamura’s fanciful tale is like an offbeat Japanese homage to LOCAL HERO. An out of towner seeks riches in a strange place where people come from far off places to fish, woman have fantastical powers, strange lights are
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gianni Amelio
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso | Francesco Giuffrida | Rosaria Danzè
Diane says: “I went to see this one because I loved Gianni Amelio’s 1994 LAMERICA–to jog your memory, two Italians go to Albania to take advantage of government money for new businesses and it ends miserably, miserably. “THE WAY WE
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Rating: 4.125 cats
Director: Veit Helmer
Starring: Chulpan Khamatova | Denis Lavant | Phillipe Clay | Terrence Gillespie
Laura says: “TUVALU is a German production filmed in Sofia about a son (Dennis Lavant, BEAU TRAVAIL) trying to keep a crumbling bathhouse operating for his aging parents while his brother is bent to destroy it. Almost completing silent, the
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Hilary Birmingham
Starring: Anson Mount | Catherine Kellner | Glenn Fitzgerald | Julianne Nicholson
Laura says: “After an arduous, two year trip to theatrical distribution, the multiple festival award winner TULLY arrives to make its mark as a true American independent. Based on the O’Henry prize winning story by Tom McNeal by coproducer/writer/directory Hilary
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Eugene Jarecki
Laura says: “Journalist Christopher Hitchens, who has famously tackled such public figures as Mother Teresa, wrote a book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, proposing that the former U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner is a war criminal.
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