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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Liv Ullman
Starring: Erland Josephson | Krister Henriksson | Lena Endre | Thomas Hanzon
Diane says: “FAITHLESS was written by Ingmar Bergman and directed by Liv Ullman. An aging director (we’ll call him ‘Bergman’) is writing the story of a disastrous affair. The woman involved, ‘Marianne,’ appears to him as a muse. It becomes
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Alan Ruck | Catherine Lloyd Burns | Justin Louis | Louis Ferreira | Mark Boone Junior | Mat Malloy | Megan Mulally | Michele Hicks | Radha Mitchell
Michael says: “EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER is the feature directorial debut from Marc Forster, whose MONSTER’S BALL starring Billy Bob Thornton is due out soon. TOGETHER stars HIGH ART‘S Radha Mitchell as a young suburban woman, pregnant and about to give
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Ousmane Sembene
Starring: Mame Ndoumbe | Mariama Balde | Ndiagne Dia | Venus Seye
Michael says: “I enjoyed FAAT KINE quite a bit. Veteran African director Ousmane Sembene has been making films since the ’60’s. With FAAT KINE he draws a lively portrait of an independent, single woman with two grown children, and their
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Rating: 3.4
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Starring: Aoi Miyazaki | Koji Yakusho | Mazaru Miyazaki
Diane says: “I saw Shinji Aoyama’s 3-3/4 hour EUREKA last night, and recommend it. A study of three people set adrift by a horrible act of violence, the film certainly lets you get to know its characters in a leisurely
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Rating: 4.125 cats
Director: George Butler
Laura says: “Butler’s first rate documentary is only hurt by Liam Neeson’s narration. His soft, lilting voice often lacks the drama the events he’s recounting demand. Music by Michael Small ranges from a deep, foreboding orchestral piece which recalls whale
Read the review...Enemy at the Gates (Germany/USA/UK/Ireland; 131min.) directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaudstarring: Jude Law; Joseph Fiennes; Rachel Weisz; Bob Hoskins; Ed Harris Howard says: “Superb cast. It was great to see Bob Hoskins on the screen again as well as Joseph
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Thomas Bezucha
Starring: Ayre Gross | Eric Schweig | George Coe | Louise Fletcher | Tim DeKay
Trent says: “Ayre Gross, looking like a cross between SNL veteran and THREE KINGS actress Nora Dunn and a strangely attractive aardvark, stars as a gay artist who must return to his roots in the gentle movie BIG EDEN. This
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Chris Hegedus | D.A. Pennebaker | Nick Doob
Diane says: “So much material (i.e., people) that the docu-makers had access to here, and I felt they wasted it by giving so much time to the concert performances. We could have learned more about the history of bluegrass from
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Rating: 4.125 cats
Director: Rob Sitch
Starring: Kevin Harrington | Patrick Warburton | Sam Neill | Tom Long
Ellen says: “I loved this little Australian film about the broadcast of the moonwalk from satellite dish in a sheep paddock in Australia. The movie had a certain BABE quality to it which, for those of you who know me,
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Rating: 3.375
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Starring: Anna Siskova | Bolek Polivka | Csongor Kassai | Jaroslav Dusek
Diane says: “Expected this one to be lighter than it actually is. Ditto on the acting, cinematography, direction…. I liked the “doubling-up” effect, even though it was used many times, in scenes of drunkenness, anger, confusion. This movie was just
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