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GAY SEX IN THE 70S
When "Porno couldn't compete with real life"

GEORGES BATAILLE'S STORY OF THE EYE
Pointless post-punk porn

THE GIRL FROM PARIS
The urban outsider and the old man farmer

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
Violence to the Girl, by the Girl, and for the Girl, shall not perish from Stockholm

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING
When the maid becomes the muse

THE GLEANERS AND I
A gem of a documentary

THE GOEBBELS EXPERIMENT
The words and whines of Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels

GOING SHOPPING
When buying a new dress means buying happiness

GOING UPRIVER: THE LONG WAR OF JOHN KERRY
The beauty and terror of Vietnam

GOOD BYE, LENIN!
Hello Adam Smith, and the hell with Honecker

GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (BUONGIORNO, NOTTE)
The kidnapping of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro

THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS
French ticklers

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY
Early Eastwood shines in Sergio Leone's expansive epic

THE GOOD THIEF
A natural choice for director Neil Jordan

GO TIGERS!
Forget the Titans

GOZU
Got milk?: A mobster on a trippy odyssey

GRAND HOTEL
"Grand Hotel. Always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens."

THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Steinbeck, Ford, Fonda & Darwell

THE GREAT WATER
Powerful portrait of life in a Stalinist orphanage

GRIZZLY MAN
Defiant or delusional: Breaking the boundry between man & nature, with deadly results

THE GROOMSMEN
Edward Burns' five thirtysomething men stuck in perpetual adolescence

GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST
Tanya on the run

A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
A film meaning to be Mean Streets, but is less than the sum of its parts

GUNNER PALACE
Embedded filmmakers follow American troops in war-torn Baghdad

HAPPILY EVER AFTER
And other clichés are subverted in this frothy French marital comedy

HAPPY ENDINGS
"Nothing says I love you like blackmail"

HAPPY HERE AND NOW
Pretentious really and how

HAPPY HOUR
Where last call has a double meaning

HEADING SOUTH
Fantasy Island for women, as if imagined by Erica Jong

HEAD-ON
He crashes, she slashes: A slacker and a party girl are made for each other

THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS
Oprah wouldn’t touch this James Frey with a lawyer on a 10-foot pole

THE HEART OF THE GAME
Hungry like the wolf: A girls basketball team takes no prisoners

HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1943)
In Ernst Lubitsch's afterlife, even cads go to Heaven

HEIGHTS
New York City - if you can make it there, you'll fail in everything else

HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT
Briskly paced, carefully plotted

HENRI LANGLOIS: PHANTOM OF THE CINÉMATHÈQUE
For rabid cinephiles (mostly)

HERE COMES MR. JORDAN
The original Heaven Can Wait: “I don’t want anybody’s body. I want my body!”

THE HIDDEN BLADE
A swordsman’s concealed skill in an old formula

HIDING AND SEEKING: FAITH AND TOLERANCE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
A Jewish Orthodox family confronts its Polish past

HIGHWATER
Totally tubular eccentrics surf the North Shore of Oahu for the championship

HIJACKING CATASTROPHE:
9/11, FEAR AND THE SELLING OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
September 11th as a political weapon

THE HILLS HAVE EYES
Mutants as evil cannibals, again

HITLER'S HIT PARADE
This documentary offers the real "Springtime for Hitler"

A HOLE IN ONE
A lobotomy today keeps the doctor away

HOLLYWOODLAND
Hollywood Babylon revisited: The death of Superman, George Reeves

THE HOLY GIRL
When holiness and hormones collide

THE HOLY LAND
The Love Boat is no Blue Angel

A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD
We are family

HOME OF THE BRAVE
A 2006 The Best Years of Our Lives, current and old-fashioned

HOSTAGE
An often riveting 21st century hostage crisis

THE HOUSEKEEPER
She cooks, she cleans, she conquers

HOUSE OF D
Where cigarette buds in the toilet bring back memories of mom

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS
As you like it - a martial arts extravaganza

HOUSE OF SAND
But no fog in sight - a clear-headed female Robinson Crusoe set in the Brazilian desert

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Wanted: Beautiful Oscar-Winning Actress to Play Downwardly Mobile Working-Class Siren

HOWARD ZINN: YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN
"Wars are always accompanied by lies."

THE HUMAN STAIN
That nothing can white out

HUSTLE & FLOW
A pimp with a dream, hookers with hearts of gold

THE ICE HARVEST
It's Christmas With the Kranks - that is, if Jamie Lee Curtis was a stripper, Tim Allen a mob lawyer, the jokes funny, and everybody died

I HAVE FOUND IT
Sense and Sensibility via Bollywood

I'LL SING FOR YOU
Jonathan Demme presents this reverent tribute to Malian singer/guitarist Boubacar Traoré

THE ILLUSIONIST
All the magic, mystery, and romance of a ‘90s David Copperfield TV special

I LOVE YOUR WORK
If a bad movie is self-consciously bad, is it still bad? (...Yes)

IMAGINE ME & YOU
A rom-com not as infectious as the title's song

IMELDA
Filipino First Lady Imelda Marcos: Once a starlet, always a starlet

I'M NOT SCARED
An ominous coming-of-age tale by Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo)

IN AMERICA
Arriving for a new life, but with lingering memories

INFERNAL AFFAIRS
A sleek cat-and-mouse masquerade

IN MY SKIN
Truly, madly, deeply in the cut

THE INNER TOUR
Palestinians on an Israeli road trip

INNOCENCE
Surreal Little Women

INTERMISSION
Bravado, brawls and beer

IN THE CUT
The cunning cunnilinguist

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL
An unknown, deceased artist is discovered

IN THIS WORLD
From the Taliban to Trafalgar Square

INTIMATE STORIES
It's all in the details: Three Patagonian tales

INTIMATE STRANGERS
A doctor and patience with no boundaries

THE INTRUDER
The latest puzzle from Claire Denis

IRAQ FOR SALE: THE WAR PROFITEERS
"How can you win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people if you're cheating your own people?"

IRON ISLAND
Iran as metaphor: A sinking isolated authoritarian regime

IRRÉVERSIBLE
Shock, but no awe

ISN'T THIS THE TIME! A TRIBUTE FOR HAROLD LEVENTHAL
A fond farewell to the music manager's staggering career

IT'S ALL ABOUT LOVE
Thomas Vinterberg's heartless follow-up to The Celebration

IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG
"Who likes to f--- and party?"