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February 10, 2003
Masterpiece Theater

Filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe followed iconoclastic director Terry Gilliam to Spain hoping to capture the making of a classic. What they got was so much better.

October 11, 2004
Upstate, Uptown, and Beyond

Three festivals bring the world to the city—another brings the city to Woodstock.

October 18, 2004
Tea and Sympathy

And abortions. That’s what Vera Drake offers working-class girls in distress, in Mike Leigh’s realist portrait of postwar London.

October 21, 2002
Candid Camera

Bob Crane was many things -- small-screen star, sex junkie, autoerotic auteur, murder victim -- but in Auto Focus, he serves mainly to advance director Paul Schrader's moral lesson.

October 9, 2000
"Girlfight"
May 26, 2003
Science Friction

The Matrix Reloaded scores with its balletic fight sequences, special effects, and sexy stars in fetish-wear. Unfortunately, it’s also loaded down with feeble mythmaking.

October 19, 1998
Creepiness

In the brilliant, disturbing 'Happiness,' Todd Solondz gets in close to his characters, only to find misery in search of company, cruelty disdainful of absolution.

September 24, 2001
Behind the Curb

Sidewalks of New York
Children Underground
Kon Ichikawa

October 25, 2004
The Grape Escape

Running from commitments and failures, two college buddies romp through California, sampling the local wine—and women—in Sideways.

October 12, 1998
In Brief: "Lolita"

Adrian Lyne's sober "Lolita" misses Nabokov's joke.

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