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THE MACHINIST
Christian Bale as a skeleton

MACHUCA
Two boys - one rich, the other poor - form a friendship against the turbulance of 1970s Chile

MADAME SATÃ
The rough trade/Jean Genet world of pederasts, whores and drug fiends

MAD HOT BALLROOM
Afterschool rumba

MAD LOVE
A bodice ripper in any language

THE MAGDALENE SISTERS
One of the finest ensembles of the last several years

MAIKU HAMA PRIVATE EYE TRILOGY
Slick contemporary Japanese film noir

MAIL ORDER WIFE
An arranged marriage caught on camera

MAJOR DUNDEE: THE EXTENDED VERSION
Sam Peckinpah's restored Western/Civil War epic

MAKING PLANS FOR LENA
A woman’s liberation and unraveling

MAMBO ITALIANO
Doing the time warp instead

A MAN CALLED MAGNUM
From Naples, with firepower

MANDERLAY
Lars von Trier’s Pollyanna has a somewhat different ending than Disney’s

THE MAN ON THE TRAIN
Audience award for best film, 2002 Venice Film Festival

MAN PUSH CART
Alone in America: An austere film about an austere life

A MAN'S GOTTA DO
Anything and everything to make his family happy, including reading his daughter's diary

THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH
Sex, drugs, rock and roll collide with David Bowie's alien from outer space

THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST
Academy award nominee for best foreign language film

MAO'S LAST DANCER
A biopic plays it safe

MARATHON
A New York neurotic on a crossword bender

MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
Tuxedoed migration on ice

MARIA FULL OF GRACE
From the frying pan into the fire

MARILYN HOTCHKISS BALLROOM DANCING & CHARM SCHOOL
Proof the tango is therapeutic (also see: Shall We Dance?)

MAROONED IN IRAQ
Will undoubtedly resonate with viewers

MASCULIN FÉMININ (1966)
The Children of Marx and Coca Cola haven’t grown up (they’re now Toys’R’Us kids)

MATTHEW BARNEY: NO RESTRAINT
A much needed explanation of the experimental artist/filmmaker

MAY 6TH
Thriller based on the assassination of Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn

MC5: A TRUE TESTIMONIAL
Much ado about m-----------

MEAN CREEK
Teenage flotsam

MELINDA AND MELINDA
Two plots are not always better than one

THE MEMORY OF A KILLER
A hit man must settle the final score before time - and his memory - runs out

MENDY
Nice Jewish boy gone wild

THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
Hippie soldiers on parade

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
A problematic play is now a problematic movie

MERCI DOCTEUR REY
Phone sex, Puccini, & Vanessa Redgrave

MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT (PART 1)
Vincent Cassel scores in this alternately incredible and just-competent gangster saga

THE MESSENGER
A complex first feature literally brings the war home

METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER
Headbanger head jobs

METROPOLIS
The silent sci-fi film that launched countless music videos

MICMACS
The original French title says it all, “A Hell of a Lot of Weird Goings-on

A MIGHTY WIND
An added scene is the standout of the special features

THE MILK OF SORROW
Faust, fauna & fear: A visually mesmerizing allegory

MILK AND HONEY
An imploding couple in the land of crime and slumming

MILLIONS
Two young boys with an extra large allowance, courtesy of Heaven

MILWAUKEE, MINNOSOTA
Far from Fargo: A quirky and greedy small town

MINI'S FIRST TIME
Kids aren’t as innocent as you think they are – Scandalous!

MIRAGE
The disappointments of childhood and Macedonia

MONDOVINO
The world of wine where the glass is half-empty

MONSIEUR IBRAHIM
"You're beautiful through women" and other words of wisdom

MONSTER
A ferocious performance, but a tepid bio

MONUMENTAL: DAVID BROWER'S FIGHT FOR WILD AMERICA
How the West was won - and lost

MOOLAADÉ
One woman's protest against female circumcision

MOSTLY MARTHA
"(Martina) Gedeck brings both a determination and warmth...reminiscent of Helen Hunt and Meryl Streep"

THE MOTEL
A 13-year-old boy's hormones run wild in his mom's skanky workplace

THE MOTHER
The randy granny and the future James Bond

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
Before he was an icon - on the road with Che

MOUNTAIN PATROL: KEKEXILI
Relentless tension at 16,500 feet

MOUTH TO MOUTH
A teenage runaway finds brotherhood - and fascism - in a cult

MR. SKEFFINGTON
The Bette Davis vehicle, with commentary by its director, 99-year-old Vincent Sherman

MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT
A star turn by Joan Plowright and an up-and-coming leading man

MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN
Two flinty farmers fight the triumph of evil

MÜNCHHAUSEN (1943)
Joseph Goebbels' answer to The Wizard of Oz

MURDERBALL
"We're not going for a hug, we're going for a gold medal"

MURDEROUS MAIDS
A French crime of the century

MY ARCHITECT
And well-known, but secretive father

MY BRILLIANT CAREER
A landmark Australian film, with impressive debuts by both director & star

MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY
The turmoil of & hope for Iraqi democracy through one Sunni's eyes

MY DOG TULIP
“Unable to love each other, the English naturally turn to their dogs”

MY LIFE WITHOUT ME
Or conflicts

MY LITTLE EYE
Big Brother meets The Blair Witch Project

MY MOTHER'S SMILE DVD
My idiot mother the saint

MY NAME WAS SABINA SPIELREIN
As well as Carl Jung's love interest & Sigmund Freud's acolyte

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO DVD
A deluxe DVD edition for the academically inclined

MYSTERIOUS SKIN
To sir, with lust

MYSTIC RIVER
Murky waters

MY SUMMER OF LOVE
Wild abandonment has a price

MY VOYAGE TO ITALY
A crash course of La Dolce Vita with Martin Scorsese

NAKED STATES
A fascinating and revealing look on American subcultures

NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
Will Preston, Idaho, be his Waterloo?

NATHALIE
A married man, his wife, and her mercenary prostitute

NEIL YOUNG: HEART OF GOLD
Another Jonathan Demme concert film/tour de force

NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
Still trying to overcome the past in Mississippi today

NEW YORK DOLL
Cross-dressing rocker-turned-devout Mormon, Arthur Kane

THE NEW YORK JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2010
The strong line-up includes Ajami and Eyes Wide Open

NICOTINA
A heist, a dream girl, and two marriages go up in smoke

NIGHT AND THE CITY
A London-set film noir with one of the most brutal wrestling matches ever

A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
You'll never listen to Il Trovatore in the same way

THE NIGHT LISTENER
In a departure, Robin Williams, subtle; the film, not

NIGHT WATCH
Even the vampires in Russia are corrupt bureaucrats

NINA'S TRAGEDIES
And her loves: A wonderful mixture of absurdity and sadness

NINE LIVES
Nine women: A roundelay of pain

NINE QUEENS
It's how the con is being played that's important

9 SONGS
Boy meets girl, have sex, break up

95 MILES TO GO
On the road with Ray Romano

NOBODY KNOWS
Four children fend for themselves - alone - in a Tokyo apartment

NOEL
It's a melancholic life

NÓI
Jeers from Iceland: A small town boy without a future

NOLA
Corny as Kansas in August

THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE
Handsome looking but flaccid pin-up bio pic

NORTHFORK
"It's what we do with our wings that separate us"

NOVEMBER
Courteney Cox Arquette in a psychological thriller-cum-directorial conceit

NOVO
Falling in love again and again and again

NOWHERE IN AFRICA
2002 best foreign film Academy Award winner

NOWHERE MAN
Angry ex-fiancée takes her ex's manhood hostage

OFF THE BLACK
Too pleased with its own low-key qualities and mundaneness for its own good

OLIVER TWIST
Dickens' orphan finds a kindred spirit in Roman Polanski

ON A CLEAR DAY
Plucky British fish-out-of-the-water dramedy that swims past others

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA
Sergio Leone's brutal and beautiful gangster saga in its entirety for the first time

ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT:
THE FORGOTTEN SUMMER OF GEORGE McGOVERN
George McGovern Superstar

ONE FROM THE HEART
And Coppola's wallet - his fabled financial flop is given the deluxe treatment

ONE LAST THING...
So sweet you’ll need a root canal

ONG-BAK: THE THAI WARRIOR
He got no strings: Martial arts action without CGI

ONLY HUMAN
Or, all in the family

OPEN HOUSE
Real estate, the musical! (not to be confused with Rent)

OPEN WATER
Scuba drivers turned shark bait

OR (MY TREASURE)
A teenaged daughter is the parent of her mother

OSAMA
A girl disguised as a boy during the rule of the Taliban

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BED
A game of musical beds

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET
Rear Window in Copacabana

OT: OUR TOWN
Grover's Corner in South-Central LA

THE OUTSIDER
Critic Roger Ebert on director James Tobeck: "Every great director is self-indulgent"

OVERNIGHT
The amount of time it takes to become famous or forgotten