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DALLAS 362
Actor Scott Caan's directorial debut about the ties that bind

THE DANCER UPSTAIRS
Sex and politics collide

DANCES OF ECSTASY
"You don't need any drug... dancing is the drug, that's how you really get high."

DANDELION
Growing up wild in the West

DANIEL & ANA
Brother & sister frozen in a shocking tragedy

DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE
The exploited and the exploiters: Africa and the West

DAVE CHAPPELLE'S BLOCK PARTY
A concert film like The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus, except better, more important, and a little bit less white

A DAY AT THE RACES
Highlights: Groucho Marx's Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush hijinks

DAYBREAK
Dour Scandinavian drama: The other side of Ikea

DEADLINE
Capital Punishment on the chopping block

DEAD MAN'S SHOES
A gritty British PSA: Drugs are bad, drug dealers are bad, and this movie contrived

DEATH BOX SET: DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT/DEATH WALKS ON HIGH HEELS
Head trippers, high-class strippers & mad slashers

DEAR FRANKIE
A letter from dad is really written by a secret pen pal

DEAR WENDY
You know, I don’t think Lars von Trier likes America. Huh. Who knew?

DEATH IN VENICE
Lavish longings in the lagoon

D.E.B.S.
Female secret agents in love

A DECENT FACTORY
It's a small world after all: Globalization under scrutiny

DEMONLOVER
Irma Vep and Emma Peel rolled into one

DERRIDA
Deconstructing Jacques: Provocative philosophical ponderings

DESERTED STATION
Moving metaphors in the parched desert

DESERT WIND
Twelve angry and naked men getting in touch with their feelings

THE DEVIL AND DANIEL JOHNSTON
From MTV to manic depression, a cult figure's riveting bio/doc

DEVIL IN THE FLESH
Sexually explicit & uncut (the film, that is)

THE DEVIL'S MINER
A minor miner, who is Catholic and a devil worshipper

THE DEVIL'S REJECTS
A maniacal family that slays together, stays together

DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST
Robert Bresson's 1951 allegorical classic

DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN
Woman, thou art scorned

DIE MOMMIE, DIE!
All that Hollywood allows

DIRTY PRETTY THINGS
The gropes of wrath

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972)
Possibly the slyest & most satisfyingly surreal satire ever made

DISTRICT B13
The Escape From ____ series heads to Paris, finding a better-looking hero than Kurt Russell

DIVAN
A couch is not just a couch, but a key to a filmmaker's past

DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE
Satiric & sad-eyed Marcello Mastroianni stars in this award-winning marital farce

DOG DAYS
Summer assaults

DOGVILLE
Judgment Day for America

DOING TIME, DOING VIPASSANA
An unorthodox means of prison reform

DOÑA HERLINDA AND HER SON
Mama knows best: Doting mother, her obedient son, his wife & his male lover all under one roof

DONKEY SKIN
"You must suffer to be beautiful": Catherine Deneuve does so in this dark fairy tale

DON'T COME KNOCKING
Actor on the lam (Sam Shepard) comes face to face with his past

DON'T MOVE
Penélope Cruz's tour de force in one long, self-absolving confession

THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR
Unlocked doors, open secrets

DOPAMINE
Earnest indie errs

DOTTIE GETS SPANKED
Todd Haynes' twisted tribute to a madcap comedienne

DOWNFALL
The first German drama depicting Hitler in nearly 50 years

DOWN IN THE VALLEY
An old-time cowboy meets his Valley Girl - not a love story

DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY
An inspired coupling between ballet and silent film

DRAWING RESTRAINT 9
The Björk-Matthew Barney sex tape finally surfaces

THE DREAMERS
Crotch shots and Blonde Venus

DUCK SEASON
A lazy afternoon, but a vigorous and telling film

DUST TO GLORY
A rollicking and demented race to the finish

THE DYING GAUL
Carnal karmic confusion

EARLY SUMMER
An unmarried woman and her unhappy family

EASTER PARADE
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire stroll down the avenue in high style

EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS
The brief age of the Hollywood director

THE EDUKATORS
Three young activists, out to save the world, one prank at a time

EL BONAERENSE
A patsy on a string

THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY
"What one has to do usually can be done."

ELECTRIC EDWARDIANS
A mesmerizing look on Upstairs, Downstairs Britain

ELECTRIC SHADOWS
Cinema Paradiso meets Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

ELEPHANT
A looming tragedy that's ignored, even in this film

ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS
1957 French film noir with two lovers, a murdered husband, and a deadly joyride

EL LEYTON
A Casanova is the talk of the town

EL PERRO
An unsentimental tale of an unemployed 52-year-old man and his purebred dog

THE EMBALMER
Winner of the David di Donatello Award (Italy's Oscar) for best screenplay and supporting actor

EMERGENCY SQUAD
An Italian police thriller with a dash of Death Wish

END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES
Rock 'n' roll high

END OF THE SPEAR
A doubled-edged sword: lives saved but a way of life gone

ENDURING LOVE
The stalker who loved me

ENIGMA
A historical epic cum thriller

ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM
The fall of a house of cards

EROS
A directorial three-way

THE ESSENTIAL EGOYAN BOX SET
Four of Canadian director Atom Egoyan's early and disturbing works

ETOILES: DANCERS OF THE PARIS OPERA BALLET
Where everyone is a star

EULOGY
Sludge casserole anyone?

EVERYBODY SAYS I'M FINE!
He's great with hair (and he reads minds too)

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED
Another book that became a movie that should have stayed a book

EVIL
The hazings here makes the going-ons of if.... and School Ties look tame

EXCELLENT CADAVERS
Penetrating documentary of the bloody Italian Mafia wars of the ‘70’s – ‘90’s

THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE
Satan or science?

FACE
An immigrant family's encounter with love and sacriface

FACING WINDOWS
What happens when you leave your curtains open

FACTOTUM
A stellar turn of understatement and rot by Matt Dillon

FAHRENHEIT 9/11
Humor as a weapon of mass deconstruction

THE FALL OF FUJIMORI
Former Peruvian president-turned-international pariah

FAREWELL
A Franco-Russian spy adventure without the thrills

FATELESS
A 14-year-old's disquieting and subtle memories of the Holocaust

FAT GIRL
Director Catherine Breillat's blunt, sexual coming-of-age nightmare

FATHER AND SON
Who's your daddy?

FELLINI: I'M A BORN LIAR
But a bore?

FESTIVAL EXPRESS
A time capsule with a jamming Janis Joplin

FILM GEEK
Masturbating to Cronenberg

FINDING ELÉAZAR
Real-life behind-the-scenes drama at the Vienna State Opera

FIND ME GUILTY
"I'm no gangster. I'm a gagster": The Sopranos made cute

FIREDANCER
Afghanis in America, pre-9/11

THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS
Experimental Filmmaking 101 with Lars von Trier

FLOATING WEEDS/A STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS
One of the year's best DVD packages - two beautifully-made versions of the same tale by Yasujiro Ozu

THE FLOWER OF EVIL
Once it takes root, it blossoms

THE FOG OF WAR: ELEVEN LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF ROBERT S. McNAMARA
"You can't change human nature"

FORBIDDEN GAMES
A classic about childhood not for children

FORGET BAGHDAD
Baghdadi Jews: Neither Zionists nor eager emigrants

FORGIVING DR. MENGELE
A Holocaust survivor's personal and controversial mission

49 UP
The fascinating chronicle of the British returns for its seventh installment

FORTY SHADES OF BLUE
A trophy wife in a doll's house

FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
A deluxe DVD celebrating the film that gave us a decade of Hugh Grant

FRANKIE AND JOHNNY ARE MARRIED
The tale of the director's wife

FREAKS
The most macabre film to come out of Hollywood's premiere dream factory

FRIDAY NIGHT
Paris at night and two lonely people

FRIENDS WITH MONEY
Sex & the other city - LA

FROM OTHER WORLDS
A B send-up of a B movie

FUSE
Bosnia’s civil war has never been funnier or more pungent