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VALENTIN
All the tyke needs is somebody to love

THE VENETIAN DILEMMA
What is the lesser of two evils, tides or tourists?

Imelda Staunton as Vera Drake
Photo: Simon Mein/Fine Line
VERA DRAKE
Mother has a secret

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT
French World War I epic love story

VIDEODROME
David Cronenberg's gruesome sex shocker

WALK ON WATER
An Israeli hit man meets Hansel and Gretel

WALL
The divide between Israelis and Palestinians

WARRIORS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Sword Wars: In an imperial empire far, far away

THE WAR WITHIN
From tortured to terroristic

THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND
A sobering portrait of an America in turmoil

WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Jack & Terry & Hank & Edith

THE WEEPING MEADOW
Turbulent Greek history + Greek tragedy

WHALE RIDER
Determined girl vs. her grandfather: an uneven battle of wills

WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?
About the universe or making a film

WHEN BOYS FLY
“Forty and gay-it’s really pathetic.”

WHEN DO WE EAT?
When the kvetching stops

WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS
Spike Lee's eulogy to New Orleans

Irene (Yolande Moreau) &
Dries (Wim Willaert) on the town
Photo: New Yorker
WHEN THE SEA RISES
The start of a great (but brief) romance

WHERE THE TRUTH LIES
A tantalizing show biz mystery involving two lounge lizards and one dead blonde

A WHISPER IN THE DARK
One part The Turn of the Screw, with a little bit of Don't Look Now

THE WHITE COUNTESS
Merchant Ivory's look-but-don't-touch ice princess

WHO GETS TO CALL IT ART?
Like Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans: Is it soup or art?

WHO KILLED BAMBI?
An end-of-innocence thriller

Senator John McCain (R/AZ)
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics
WHY WE FIGHT
The age of the American Empire, sponsored by Halliburton

WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF
A black comedy from Northern Europe (where else?)

THE WILD BLUE YONDER
Herzog’s latest piece, straddling a curious line between documentary & science fiction

WILD CAMP
Lolita redux, by way of France, with Isild Le Besco as, yet again, a rebellious teenager

THE WILD PARROTS OF TELEGRAPH HILL
AKA Connor, Olive, Mingus, Picasso & Sophie

WILD SIDE
The heart is a lonely hooker

WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD
For this taciturn photgrapher, a picture is "impossible to follow up with words"


WINGED MIGRATION
The visually stunning cinematography can’t fail to captivate

WINTER PASSING
Another month, another film about an angsty, intellectual family with detached parents

WINTER SOLDIER
"They can't deny the testimony of all of these dudes in the room"

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE
Al Capone casting call comedy

A WOMAN IS A WOMAN
Who wouldn't want to be Cyd Charisse or Gene Kelly?

WONDERLAND
The slow fade-out of John Holmes

THE WOODSMAN
Dark degrees of Kevin Bacon

President Bill Clinton
featured in WORDPLAY
Photo:IFC
WORDPLAY
As Bill Clinton would say, “It’s just fun”

THE WORLD
"Give us a day, we'll show you the world"

THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN
At 201 miles an hour, the world's fastest old coot

WRESTLING WITH ANGELS: PLAYWRIGHT TONY KUSHNER
Profile of the prolific writer (Angels in America)

WRITER OF O
The author of the erotic Story of O comes out

XX/XY
Petra Wright is a revelation

THE YES MEN
With a straight face and a lot of confidence, you can get away with anything

YOU'LL GET OVER IT
Been-there-done-that

YVES SAINT LAURENT: 5, AVENUE MARCEAU, 755116 PARIS
A fly-on-the-wall look at the master in his inner-sanctum

YVES SAINT LAURENT: HIS LIFE AND TIMES
His motto: The main thing is to last

ZATOICHI
Bumbling blind man, hidden hero

ZELARY
It takes a village - to tame a woman and take on the Nazis

ZEROPHILIA
If you saw She’s the Man, you don’t need to see “He’s the Woman”

ZHOU YU'S TRAIN
In the mood for a retread?

ZUS AND ZO
2002 best foreign film Academy Award nominee



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