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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Sara Sugarman
Starring: Ioan Gruffud | Jonathan Pryce | Matthew Rhys | Rachel Griffiths
Michael says: “The first film we caught at the High Falls Film Festival was a British entry, the recipient of The Sundance Film Maker’s Award for Best International Script for Sara Sugarman’s VERY ANNIE-MARY. Rachel Griffiths and Jonathan Pryce star
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Director: Shunji Iwai
Starring: Ayumi Ito | Hayato Ichihara | Shûgo Oshinari | Takao Osawa
Peg says: “Based on his interactive on-line novel, filmmaker Shunji Iwais bleak glimpse into the solipsistic world of Japanese teenagers is a visually stunning étude full of pensive slow takes, heart-stopping tableaux, and frenetic high-def DVD color. What may challenge
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Cara Seymour | Chris Cooper | Meryl Streep | Nicholas Cage | Tilda Swinton
Mary W. says: “ADAPTATION had a lot of laughs but definitely all in the flip meandering mode so that after a time the one-note characters- ‘Charlie Kaufman’ (Nicholas Cage) and ‘Susan Orlean’ (Meryl Steep) begin to wear thin. I never
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Chris Weitz | Paul Weitz
Starring: Hugh Grant | Natalia Tena | Nicholas Hoult | Rachel Weisz | Sharon Small | Toni Collette | Victoria Smurfit
Laura says: “ABOUT A BOY establishes Will and Marcus by intercutting between their lives until it brings them together. Young Nicholas Hoult immediately gains our sympathy. He’s terrified of being abandoned by his mother, which makes him brave enough to
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Seth Kearsley
Starring: Adam Sandler | Austin Stout | Jackie Titone | Tyra Banks
Laura says: “Adam Sandler grows increasingly frustrating combining his odd mixture of true heart and sweetness with juvenile vulgarity that may even put off his target audience in this, his first animation. For every laugh or smile Sandler genuinely earns
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Ian Hart | Lena Heady | Stellan Skarsgaard
Bob says: “ABERDEEN is a film I’ve never heard of, by Hans Petter Moland, a Norwegian director I’ve never heard of, but the blurb looked interesting enough, and the cast included Stellan Skarsgard and Charlotte Rampling, who’s my frontrunner for
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