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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.6 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Alex Descas | Beatrice Dalle | Florence Loiret Caille | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Tricia Vessey | Vincent Gallo
Emily says: “Having heard Claire Denis’ new film was a disappointment after BEAU TRAVAIL (a favorite of mine), I was lucky enough to disregard these reviews and catch it during the Boston Women’s Film festival – thanks be, I loved
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Rating: 3.7 cats
Director: Laurent Cantet
Starring: Aurélien Recoing | Jean-Pierre Mangeot | Karin Viard | Serge Livrozet
Diane says: “TIME OUT (L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS), directed by Laurent Cantet, is about a manager who is fired and can’t bring himself to let his family know. Vincent drives around with his cell phone, pretending to his wife that he
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ming-liang | Tsai
Starring: Kang-sheng Lee | Shiang-chyi Chen | Yi-ching Lu
Michael says: “The story unfolds ever so slowly, and the pace doesn’t change throughout the nearly 2-hour running time, but is punctuated by sudden scenes of bizarre hilarity. WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? follows the lives of three people who
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Baltasar Kormákur | Bill Sage | Helen Mirren | James Urbaniak | Julie Christie | Robert John Burke | Sarah Polley
Michael says: “I have been eagerly anticipating this film because it featured three of my favorite movie types… Hal Hartley, Sarah Polley and Helen Mirren. “Buzz around this new film had been rather negative… largely, I think, due to the
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Jill Sprecher
Starring: Alan Arkin | Amy Irving | Barbara Sukowa | Clea DuVall | John Turturro | Matthew McConaughhey | Rob McElhenney | Tia Texada
Hilary says: “I find myself in the minority concerning 13 CONVERSATIONS. Although I liked the organization of the story in its MEMENTO-like reverse structure) and it had several strong performers, I never got into the story. The entire time I
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lynn Hershmon-Lessman
Starring: James Urbaniak | Jeremy Davies | Karen Black | Thomas Jay Ryan | Tilda Swinton
Michael says: “What better way to finish off the terrific movie weekend at the Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema than a science fiction fling with the incomparable Tilda Swinton playing geeky scientist Rosetta Stone, and her three clones, Ruby,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Dario Grandinetti | Javier Cámara | Leonor Watling | Rosario Flores
Michael says: “A group of us saw Pedro Almodovar’s sublime TALK TO HER last night. That Spanish director’s eye for creating exquisite visual portraits using the language of film just keeps growing. Each scene is so carefully crafted, and his
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Aaron Stanford | Bebe Neuwirth | John Ritter | Sigourney Weaver
Clinton says: “There certainly was a lot of buzz at Sundance on this feature, helped of course by the newsmaking 4 million dollar purchase by Miramax, but this comedy left me terribly dry and even a little ticked off. Oscar
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Robert J. Siegel
Starring: Jamie Harrold | Jennifer Dundas | Joelle Carter | Lauren Ambrose
Diane says: “SWIMMING brought back childhood memories of a week at Myrtle Beach on a family vacation–in the rain. My strongest memory is of being hit in the head by a beach ball thrown by a drunken man. But back
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Rating: 2.3
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Angela Bassett | Edie Falco | Jane Alexander | Mary Alice | Ralph Waite | Timothy Hutton
Bob says: “Ok, the film was decidedly more dialog-driven than visual, but that’s pretty much Sayles’ style. He’s very political and preachy, and he makes little or no effort to disguise that in his work. Because of that, his characters
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