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Peter Paul (Alexander Brickel) & Aviva (Sharon Wilkins)
Photo: Macall Polay
PALINDROMES
A tiger never changes its stipes: The world according to Todd Solondz

PARADISE NOW
The making of a suicide bomber

PARAGRAPH 175
Includes interviews with the only known gay survivors of Nazi persecution

PARTICLES OF TRUTH
More like atoms

PARTNER
NoShame Films' Italian New Wave super-saver value pak

THE PASSENGER
Jack Nicholson: "I use to be someone else, but I traded him in"

PASSIONADA
Indie chick flick in fish stix

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST
The Mel Gibson Code

PERFECT CRIME (EL CRIMEN PERFECTO)
A Spanish She-Devil

PERSONS OF INTEREST
The human cost of the U.S. anti-terror campaign

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY
Katharine Hepburn's blue-blooded bonanza

THE PHOTOGRAPHER, HIS WIFE, HER LOVER
A sorid art world scandal

THE PIANIST
Winner of three Academy Awards

PIECES OF APRIL
Thanksgiving as the cruelest holiday

PIZZA
Muriel’s Wedding meets Can’t Hardly Wait

PORNOGRAPHY: THE SECRET HISTORY OF CIVILISATION
From Pompeii to Penthouse, a penetrating look

PORT OF SHADOWS
We are together alone

POWER TRIP
A country of political chaos, corruption, and blackouts

A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
Robert Altman-meets-Garrison Keillor mishap


THE PREMIERE FRANK CAPRA COLLECTION
Hardly Capra corn, but choice cuts

THE PRESIDENT'S LAST BANG
Every pun is intended in this political satire

PRETTY PERSUASION
Pretty poison is more like it - a teen queen bee with quite a sting

PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL
And a better script

PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, yet again

PRIMER
If I could turn back time (and make money too)

Michela Cescon as Sonia
Photo: Strand Releasing
PRIMO AMORE
Lethal first love may be the last for a Galatea & Pygmalion

PRINCESAS
A vivid portrait of friendship between two Spanish prostitutes

THE PRINCESS BRIDE
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die"

Hend Ayoub as Mariam
Photo: Typecast Releasing
PRIVATE
A Palestinian family & Israeli soldiers under one roof: From metaphor to tense drama

THE PROMISE
A beautiful, loveless princess is saved by a slave in crimson armor

PROM NIGHT IN KANSAS CITY
Where teenage girls are queens for a day

THE PROPOSITION
The western returns, via Australia, bloodied and bruised

PROTOCOLS OF ZION
Why does one of history's most infamous books still have a following

P.S.
May-December déjà vu

P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD
But your apartment is fabulous

PULSE
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest horror flick is a drag - intentionally, kind of

PUNCH DRUNK LOVE
Not giddy or gay

THE QUIET AMERICAN
Who carries a very big stick

RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
A rarity, an intelligent film for adults and children

RAGING BULL
Among the extras: Jake La Motta's life, in his own words

THE RECEPTION
Scenes from a pseudo-marriage

THE RECKONING
The Name of the Rose meets Shakespeare in Love

RECONSTRUCTION
An intellectual approach to love

Carole Bouquet & Jean-Pierre Darroussin
in RED LIGHTS
Photo: Wellspring
RED LIGHTS
A vacation in hell in this bourgeois film noir

RED PERSIMMONS
Behind the blossoms: A scenic excursion into Japan

Wyatt, Janet, John & Georgia Pierson
Photo: Amy C. Elliott
REEL PARADISE
An American Family in Fiji meets Cinema Paradiso

REMINISCING IN TEMPO
A tribute to Duke Ellington drowns out his music

THE RETURN
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival

RETURNER
B-movie bonanza

RICHARD III
The clash of the Titans: Olivier, Gielgud & Richardson

THE RIDER NAMED DEATH
A relentless killing machine in Czarist Russia

RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES
Director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers) returns to the basics in this restraint and emotional father & son reunion

RIDING GIANTS
Big waves, big egos

RIPLEY'S GAME
Menacing Malkovich is the talented Mr. Ripley

RIZE
"If you have talent, don't be afraid to express it"

THE ROAD TO GUANTÁNAMO
A reenactment of the Tipton Three, from Pakistan to Cuba

ROBOT STORIES
Artificial intelligence with a heart

ROCK SCHOOL
Where the classics include Black Sabbath and Frank Zappa

ROGER DODGER
Boys will be boars

ROLLING FAMILY
The feel-good Argentinean family road trip movie of the year

RORY O'SHEA WAS HERE
A spike-haired angry young man with muscular dystrophy won't be ignored

ROSENSTRASSE
German World War II soap opera

THE RULES OF THE GAME
Guns & Lovers: A weekend in the country

RYNA
From Romania, a teenage girl's brutal coming of age



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