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THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
"Sadness is just happiness turned on its ass; it's all show biz."

SAFE CONDUCT
Bertrand Tavernier's epic of France under the Nazi occupation

SAINT RALPH
Dead Poets Society made easy

SAINTS AND SINNERS
Get me to the church on time

SARABAND
A tart valentine by 85-year-old Ingmar Bergman

SATAN'S LITTLE HELPER
Gullibility + Evil = Mayhem

SAVED!
Finding salvation in high school hell

SAVE THE GREEN PLANET
One oddball's crusade against the evil Andromedans

SAVING FACE
An unwed pregnant, middle-aged mother and her gay daughter face derision

SAW
Literally losing an arm and a leg

A SCANNER DARKLY
The legacy of middling Philip K. Dick adaptations trudges onward

SCHINDLER'S LIST
With a powerful DVD special feature documentary

SCHIZO
Coming of age in Kazakhstan's criminal clime

THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
Eternal Sunshine of Michel Gondry’s Mind

THE SEA
"You can't freeze love like a gutted fish"

THE SEAGULL'S LAUGHTER
Hot mama heats up Iceland

THE SEA INSIDE
Whose vida is it anyway?

THE SEA IS WATCHING
Written by the late Akira Kurosawa, his first and only love story

SEARCHING FOR THE WRONG-EYED JESUS
"The South is more than a state of mind, it's an atmosphere"

SEASIDE
The 2002 Cannes Film Festival's Camera D'Or for best first film

SECRETS OF A CALL GIRL/THE SENSUOUS NURSE
Breasts, Italian style

SECRET THINGS
Sexual passion brought way out in the open

SECUESTRO EXPRESS
Son of City of God: Cocaine and kidnappers go together in this harrowing thriller

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED
Classic sex farce: shotgun wedding all'Italiana

SEDUCING DOCTOR LEWIS
An entire French-Canadian town puts out - the welcome mat

SEEING OTHER PEOPLE
Keeping score on scoring

SEPARATE LIES
The impressive directorial debut of screenwriter Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park)

SEQUINS
Sparkling drama of a pregnant teenager on her own

THE SET-UP
A gritty and visceral film noir directed by Robert Wise (The Sound of Music)

SEVEN BEAUTIES
"A rotten comedy, a lousy farce called living"

SEVENTH HEAVEN
A more sensual than religious experience

SEX IS COMEDY
But torturous and laborious (if you're an actor)

SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMÉO DALLAIRE
Returning to Rwanda, confronting nightmares

SHATTERED GLASS
Grand delusions and the press

SHAUN OF THE DEAD
Zombie anarchy in the U.K.

SHE HATE ME
Mild-mannered sap turned babymaking machine

SHERRYBABY
Maggie Gyllenhaal as an ex-con/heroin addict reclaiming her child (sound familiar?)

SHE'S ONE OF US
And will do anything to belong

SHORT CUTS
Robert Altman's misanthropic epic of misogyny

SHORT CUT TO NIRVANA: KUMBH MELA
Spiritual sideshow

SIDEWAYS
Unlike Merlot, this comedy is transcendent

A SILENT LOVE
The bride who came from the Web

SILENT WATERS
Religion tears a mother and son apart

SILVER CITY
John Sayles' election year follies

SINCE OTAR LEFT...
"Hands down the most heart-rending French film to be released in the U.S. in the last year."

SIR! NO SIR!
Dissenting band of brothers

SISTERS IN LAW
A crusading attorney fighting for the rights of abused women, young and old, in West Africa

SKETCHES OF FRANK GEHRY
Of art and architecture

A SKIN TOO FEW: THE DAYS OF NICK DRAKE
Died young, stayed enigmatic

SKY BLUE
Anime meets Saturday morning cartoons

SLACKER
Richard Linklater's debut ponderings

A SLIPPING DOWN LIFE
Fantasies collide with hard-knock realities

SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
Ingmar Bergman's sensuous and charming romantic comedy

SOME LIKE IT HOT
Nobody's perfect, but this Billy Wilder comedy may be

SOMERSAULT
A post-pubescent Lolita, as if played by a guilt-ridden Sue Lyon

SON FRÈRE (HIS BROTHER)
A moving and painful reconciliation

THE SON'S ROOM
Golden Palm Award Winner, 2001 Cannes Film Festival

SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS
The trial of Nazi resister & victim

SORRY HATERS
A post-9/11 taxi ride from hell

SPELLBOUND
“When you fight in a war, everyone has to come through”

SPIDER
Engrossing and repellantly grim

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... AND SPRING
What goes around comes around in a resplendent setting

THE SQUID AND THE WHALE
The imploding-family comedy

STAGE BEAUTY
She's a man, baby

STALIN'S WIFE
A historical whodunit: Was the dictator's younger wife murdered or did she commit suicide?

STANDER
"Everyone is dishonest; it's a matter of degree"

THE STATEMENT
Michael Caine as a Nazi war criminal on the run

STATE OF FEAR: THE TRUTH ABOUT TERRORISM
The rise of the first media dictatorship in the Americas

A STATE OF MIND
The Cold War lives on: Inside Stalinist North Korea

THE STATION AGENT
Can't we all just get along?

STEAL ME
Oedipus on the range

STILL, THE CHILDREN ARE HERE
After 6,000 years, the outside world breaks an Indian village's isolation

STOLEN
A bad documentary about great art

STONE READER
An avid fan’s quest for a long-lost author

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL
As if it were told by Robert Flaherty, not Walt Disney

STRANGERS WITH CANDY
“Jerri, what does V-I-C-T-O-R-Y spell?” “Fandango?”

STRAY DOG
"Bad luck either makes the man or destroys him."

STRAYED
French war widow finds an unlikely romance

S21: THE KHMER ROUGE KILLING MACHINE
Startling revelations of Cambodia's senseless past

SUPER SIZE ME
A whopper of an exposé of our fast food fix

SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS
The glamour and glory of the envelope-pushing New York drag star Jackie Curtis

SWIMMING POOL
Danger: Shallow Waters

SYLVIA
A bio of the poetry world's own Marilyn: Sylvia Plath

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE
A deaf mute, black-market organ dealers, and a fatal kidnapping (and that's not even half of it)

THE SYRIAN BRIDE
A marriage made in no man's land

TADPOLE
Little boy no more

TAKING SIDES
Keitel's fortissimo vs. Skarsgård's pianissimo

THE TALENT GIVEN US
A real-life family's loud, yet endearing road trip

A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
And a wicked stepmother: A South Korean horror hit

THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger's fantastical hallucinations, set to Offenbach

A TALKING PICTURE
The wonders of the world upstage the top-notch cast in this moving meditation and travelogue

TARNATION
I was a teenage drama queen

TEKNOLUST
Even cyber-babes need compassion

TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE
Dueling cameras: A son takes on his famous father, cinematographer Haskell Wexler

TEN
Contemporary Iran, from the dashboard's point of view

THE TENANTS
Well red: Two angry & competitive writers (played by Snoop Dogg & Dylan McDermott) duke it out

TEOREMA
Terence Stamp as Pier Paolo Pasolini's sexy savior

THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE
The ravings of a super-human mastermind

THANK YOU FOR SMOKING
“Michael Jordan plays ball, Charles Manson kills people, I talk”

THIEVES' HIGHWAY
A gritty film noir with a case of white line fever

THE THING ABOUT MY FOLKS
Peter Falk steals the film, and a few hearts

THIRTEEN
Look at me, look at me, look at me!!!

39 POUNDS OF LOVE
A memorable and unconventional road trip

THIS DIVIDED STATE
Sean Hannity v. Michael Moore in the "bluest" state, Utah

THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED
Ridiculing the ridiculous: Behind the curtain of the Motion Picture Association of America

THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA
Blood on the border: Tommy Lee Jones' detailed directorial debut

THREE...EXTREMES
Macabre terror trilogy from three rising Asian directors

3-IRON
With golf club in tow, two lovers on the run

THREE OF HEARTS: A POSTMODERN FAMILY
Boy meets boy meets girl

THE 3 ROOMS OF MELANCHOLIA
The war of children in Chechnya

THREE TIMES
An intoxicating Taiwanese trilogy

3 WOMEN
Robert Altman's picturesque puzzle, made by a major studio no less

THROUGH THE FIRE
From the Coney Island projects to the cover of Sports Illustrated

THUMBSUCKER
Where everyone is a little bit different

THX 1138
George Lucas's 1984

TIME TO LEAVE
Die young, stay pretty

THE TIN DRUM
A boy beats to a different drummer in this Best Foreign Language Oscar-winning film

TITANIC
The well-known disaster - from the point of view of Nazi Germany

TO BE AND TO HAVE
An addition to 2003's winning documentary films

TOKYO GODFATHERS
Twisted, tough and tender Japanese anime

TONY TAKITANI
A tragic marriage of mannered minimalism

TORREMOLINOS 73
Married couple become two unlikely porn stars

TOUCHING THE VOID
An incredible and miraculous real-life tale of man vs. nature

TOUCH OF PINK
A Cary Grant devotee must end his Charade

TOUS LES MATINS DU MONDE (ALL THE MORNINGS OF THE WORLD)
The mourning muse of music

THE TRACKER
Ordeal in the outback: An Australian Western

TRANSAMERICA
Teary tranny & son hit the road

TRANSFIXED
A tranvestite who's always at the wrong place, at the wrong time

TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS
What monks can make of dreams

THE TRILOGY: AFTER THE LIFE
The culmination of this compelling series

THE TRILOGY: AN AMAZING COUPLE
Boisterous, bourgeois blunders

THE TRILOGY: ON THE RUN
A strong beginning to three interwoven and spellbinding films

THE TRIP
One liners fly fast and furious

THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE
A careening, captivating cartoon caper

THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE
Even the use of jump cuts can't enliven the tedium

TROPICAL MALADY
A Thai gay melodrama ("The other day, when I gave you that Clash tape, I forgot to give my heart along with it")-cum-mind game

TRUST THE MAN
Live and let live or "'til death do us part"

TRY TO REMEMBER: THE FANTASTICKS
A tribute to the world's longest running musical

TSOTSI
A South African thug with a heart of gold

TURTLES CAN FLY
Children in a minefield: Kurdish Iraq before the 2003 war

28 DAYS LATER
Part Outbreak, Night of the Living Dead, and even Dracula

THE 24TH DAY
A trick turns into a trial

TWENTYNINE PALMS
Nude, on top of the mountain

21 GRAMS
Powerhouse performances propelled by Penn

TWO MEN WENT TO WAR
Daffed, defiant and dutiful

2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HIM
My beloved father the Nazi leader

THE 2004 OSCAR SHORTS
From wartime to playtime, something for everyone

2046
In the mood for a lot of love

TYCOON
The new Russia as a conniving thug

TYING THE KNOT
Unraveling the obstacles to gay marriage

UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ
The Emperor's New Clothes

UNDERTOW
Southern gothic Grand Guignol

UNFAITHFULLY YOURS (1948)
Preston Sturges' comedic take on the green-eyed monster

UNION SQUARE
The Panic in Needle Park 2004

UNKNOWN
A strong suspense/action/thriller where Saw and Reservoir Dogs combine

UNKNOWN WHITE MALE
The Man Without a Past combined with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

UNLIKELY HEROES
Real-life acts of defiance during the Holocaust

UNO BIANCA
A stylish Italian miniseries where a Serpico finds Law & Order

THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT LOUIS TILL
The murder that help launched the Civil Rights Movement

UP AND DOWN
Bought babies & fractured families: New Europe in flux

USHPIZIN
Guess who's coming to the holiday dinner?