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GARMENTO You don’t have to be the
most diehard fashionista to feel that this is so ‘90s
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
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
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?"
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