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DAHMER Mixes the mundane with the unexpected
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
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
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
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