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| WHERE DO WE GO NOW? |  | Date: May 5, 2012
“Powerful film. Loved the opening with its blend of poetry, music, and choreography. I admire the screenwriter’s ability to incorporate humor into such a serious subject.”
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| THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL |  | Date: , 2008
“Under 50 or a long-time card-carrying AARP member you should see this film. Like the telemarketers educated by Judy Dench all young actors could learn from any scene in this film the life lessons of acting. Give them a great script and all the better.”
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| BERNIE |  |
Screening Date: April 21, 2012
“Unlike any other film I can remember seeing. Truth is stranger than fiction, but truth doesn’t always make great movies, and this is – what ever it is – a great movie! Jack Black is letter perfect, Shirley MacLaine is lovably hatable (who can forget her eating refried beans?) and only Matthew McConaughey slips slightly into overdone satire.” | ||||||||||
| MONSIEUR LAZHAR |  | Screening Date: March 31, 2012
“A masterpiece of story telling on so many levels, personal and professional. Wonderful performances. The screenplay masterfully unfolds the mysteries behind each character’s secret. The child actors were great! I will tell everyone I know to see this film. The ending was perfect. The music score was lovely. John, thanks so much for getting this film.” | ||||||||||
| THE LADY |  | Date: March 24, 2012
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| THE HUNTER |  | Date: March 17, 2012
“An intense and satisfying film which follows the transformation of a man who, at first, seems almost inhuman. But as we follow the awakening of life and feeling within him becomes a man who cares very much what his fate will be. I can’t imagine another actor playing it. Dafoe was magnificent. He was the hunter. There was not a false note as one watches his expressive face in all those close-ups. Let’s see an Oscar for this magnificent actor.” | ||||||||||
| MUSICAL CHAIRS |  | Date: March 10, 2012
“Not as edgy as previous Seidelman films, but sincere, unpretentious, heck, even old-fashioned. Seidelman tells a by-the-numbers romance of clashing cultures, manages to avoid the sap, and it’s great to see Priscilla Lopez of legendary ‘Chorus Line’ fame up on the big screen.” | ||||||||||
| BOY |  | Date: , 2008
“A seemingly simple film set on a faraway shore, yet filled with moments of subtle yet significant comments on man/boy and those moments that shape a culture and affect a lifetime.” | ||||||||||
| FOOTNOTE |  | Date: February 11, 2012
“This film was completely engaging. An intimate look at a painful constellation of relationships. They say that scholarship is more and more about less and less, but this close-up was a world of rich and deep feeling.”
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| THIN ICE |  | Screening Date: February 4, 2012
“Films like this are rare, this one is not so precious, but a well intentioned try. Like FARGO it was midwest icy noir, but without Fargo’s wonderfully bizarre characters. Kinnear a fine anti-hero, but we really have no one to root for…” |