Chlotrudis Indie Film Wrap-Up, September 5 - 11

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Well this week heralds the start of the Toronto International Film Festival. About ten Chlotrudis members will head to this extravaganza of film and report back on what we can't miss when it gets released in the coming months. I'm sad to be missing it this year, but I'm looking forward to hear and reading the reports... (MORE)

Chlotrudis Indie Film Wrap-Up, August 29 - September 4

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Happy Labor Day Weekend, everyone! As summer gives its last gasp, it's hard to think about movies, but I am going to try to catch FROZEN RIVER at the Coolidge this week. I'm still not 100% sure which day I will be able to go, so watch this e-mail space and I will send out a message. For those of you... (MORE)

Chlotrudis Indie Film Wrap-Up, August 22 - 28

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Again, a bit of a jump since my last update. (I had a good excuse; I was in London!) Surprise, surprise! Even though it's the summer, the indie and arthouses films do change! Some pretty interesting openings this week, so I think it's back to the theatres for me, starting off with FROZEN RIVER (pictured left), the HBA Audience Award winner for Best Feature Film at the Provincetown International Film Festival. Courtney Hunt's debut feature is set in a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between New York State and Quebec, where the lure of fast money presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be making minimum wage. It opens this week a... (MORE)

Chlotrudis Indie Film Wrap-Up, August 1 - 7

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So, I've been amazingly sporadic with my announcements this summer, but there hasn't been a whole lot going on in the independent film scene. I hope you've been getting out to the movies! There are a couple of things to mention this week though, so here I am. As inexplicable as it is that MAMA MIA!... (MORE)

Chlotrudis Indie Film Round-Up, July 4 - 10

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Wow... I'm super late with this, so I'm going to skip the intro and just post the list of films playing this week. I'll just say, am I the last person to see ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, Werner Herzog's visually arresting documentary about Antarctica? I will try to catch that very soon as it... (MORE)

Chlotrudis Indie Film Round-Up, June 27 - July 3.

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Thank you to the Brattle Theatre for screening Bruce McDonald's THE TRACEY FRAGMENTS for a week starting Friday, June 27. This innovative film starring Ellen Page wowed me in Toronto, and Chlotrudis co-presented the film at the Independent Film Festival of Boston in May. Now the Brattle is running the exclusive area premiere for one week. DON'T... (MORE)

Chlotrudis Indie Film Round-Up, June 13 - 19

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Sorry for missing the last couple of weeks' announcements. I was in L.A. for BookExpo America and things got a little hectic. While the summer blockbusters are starting to dominate the screens, there's still plenty of independent fodder out there to check out. Tom Kalin's SAVAGE GRACE opens this week, and if you're a fan of dark... (MORE)