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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Carrie Ann Moss | Guy Pearce | Joe Pantoliano
Diane says: “Trent is right: there’s plenty of comedy if you’re willing to laugh. I’m not sure I’ve figured out yet all that the writer would have me figure out. My thought now is that MEMENTO used a really good
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Lima Duarte | Luis Carlos Vasconcelos | Regina Casé | Stenio Garcia
Howard says: “What a beautiful film! I will definitely be nominating this one for cinematography. All the beautiful earth tones. OY! Regina Case was excellent as Darlene, a woman who basically finds everything she needs from a man in three
Read the review...Matter of Taste, A (France; 90min.) directed by: Bernard Rappstarring: Bernard Giraudeau; Jean-Pierre Lorit; Florence Thomassin Kevin says: “Deeply layered film that reminded me of WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY…. A young man played by Jean-Pierre Lorit is hired
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Rating: 3.2 cats
Director: Sally Potter
Starring: Cate Blanchett | Christina Ricci | John Turturro | Johnny Depp
Kevin says: “An interesting but extremely sporadic film. Ricci’s character is not strongly written, and her performance shows it. Cate Blanchett steals all of her scenes. Beautiful imagery can’t quite make up for a spotty script, and Johnny Depp should
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Ellen says: “This contains a slight spoiler unless you are familiar with the recent (last 30 – 40 years) history of the Congo in which case I won’t say anything that will stun you. The film is the story of
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Director: Marleen Gorris
Starring: Emily Watson | Geraldine James | John Turturro | Stuart Wilson
Diane says: “Based on Nabokov’s novel, this is a story of a Russian chess genius who is inept in every other sphere of life, except for winning the love of a young compatriot whom he meets at an Italian resort
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lea Pool
Starring: Jessica Paré | Mischa Barton | Piper Perabo
Michael says: “LOST AND DELIRIOUS is the first English language feature from French Canadian Lea Pool (director of SET ME FREE which won last year’s Best Actress Award). This emotionally high strung tale deals with lives and loves of Mary,
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Griffin Dunne
Starring: Daniel London | Griffin Dunne | Laura Kirk | Nat DeWolf
Laura says: “Lisa Picard (cowriter Laura Kirk) is on the cusp, with a ‘small but significant’ role in ‘A Phone Call for Help,’ an upcoming TV movie starring Melissa Gilbert and past notoriety for a sexy Chex commercial that resulted
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Starring: Alexander Beyer | Bibiana Beglau | Harald Schrott | Martin Wuttke | Nadja Uhl | Richard Kropf
Diane says: “A terrorist trying to destroy the capitalism of West Germany in the 1970s has her identity changed three times over ten years by the East German government and has to come to terms with living under communism. Great
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Michael Cuesta
Starring: Adam LeFevre | Billy Kay | Brian Cox | Bruce Altman | James Costa | Marcia DeBonis | Paul Franklin Dano | Tony Donnelly | Walter Masterson
Bob says: “L.I.E., at its base, is a pretty standard rites of passage story: a young boy considers his life and what he wants to become, or senses himself becoming, within a context that involves one absent parent, another who
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