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GIRL GONE WILD

See why patti smith loves this depraved French classic

Cleopatra Returns In All Its Fabled Glory

Only in Hollywood could the year's highest-grossing feature also be the biggest flop, but that's what happened with Cleopatra, the 1963 Joseph Mankiewicz-directed epic of Egyptian headdresses, cleavage, and makeup, all done with a distinctly 1960s American slant. The main attractions were Richard B ... More >>

'Giallo Fever!' Tries The Stalking Cure at Anthology

A knife is never just a knife in these sex-crazed Italian thrillers

This Week in the Voice: Schools Need Education in Gay Bullying

This week in the Voice, out today, Jessica Lussenhop looks at schools' failure to address gay bullying but notes the paradigm shift in discipline: "Gay kids have long been a target of bullying. Until recently, incidents could be laughed off as 'pranks,' and no one suffered any consequences, save for ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?

Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>

Social Work: Three Women Attempt to Understand One Argentinean Village in The Lips

The Aftershocks of a School Shooting in Beautiful Boy

The New New Wave Has Arrived in 'Free Radicals'

Denis Cote Looks at a Blocked Quebecois in Curling

Truffaut's Unjustly Neglected The Soft Skin Ripe for Reappraisal

Keeping the Faith in Of Gods and Men and Diary of a Country Priest

Soap-Opera Intrigue in The Housemaid Remake

Grief Gone Mad in Secret Sunshine

Great Directors: As Asinine as the Title Suggests

Dreaming of a World in Which 'Pussy' Means 'Big Light' in Dogtooth

This Week In The Voice: The 2010 Obie Awards

​Every year, The Village Voice holds their own awards ceremony for theater free from the pomp, circumstance, and promotional intent towards profit that most other Dog and Pony extravaganzas do: The Obies. And the awesomeness that was this year's was no exception. Voice theater critic and Obie ... More >>

Our Guide to the Greatest of the ND/NF's Latest

(Because newer is not always better)

Dirty Martini Comes Clean!

​One of the zingiest presences on the scene, Dirty Martini--aka "the chairman of the broad"--is a Rubensian beauty who knows how to shake it up (literally) while stirring an audience so fervently they're afraid to get up because the seat is wet. I gave the good-time gal a call (and no, it was ... More >>

Week in Review: "I Am the Best Filmmaker in the World."

Nate "Igor" SmithFun times at Roxy Cottontail's party. This is what Zach's birthday dinner looked like too. In the week that both Zach and Roxy Cottontail celebrated their birthdays, Rob posted a great moment in Wu-based subway-ad vandalism that became a whole shitload of peoples' Facebook profile ... More >>

Sergei Dvortsevoy Has His Way with Camels and Shepherds Alike in Tulpan

Steven Soderbergh's Che

Two Guevara movies in one four-hour sitting

New York Film Festival 2008

Films of the Dardenne Brothers

Anthology ignores the early days, but still pays worthy tribute to the Belgian brothers

Directors' Fortnight: An Alt-Cannes

Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating opens a tribute to that other French festival

Jellyfish: An Israeli Movie With Neither Politics Nor Religion

Tel Aviv's lonely move in and out of each other's lives in this poingnant indie

15 French Premieres in "Rendez-Vous" Fest

From the old guard to the young gun, a welcome cinematic winterlude

Crowded House

More movies, fewer screens, and a new game in town means cutthroat competition for indie-film distributors

Redeeming Feature

Forget how the angel fell at Cannes by revisiting Wong Kar Wai at his best

Mighty Heart, Mightier Spotlight

Bigger than any single tragedy, Angelina Jolie kidnaps Daniel Pearl's movie

Reality Czech in Aisle Nine

Doc dupes entire nation, makes trenchant case against consumer culture

The Revolution Must Be Televised

Debating Romanian independence on the boob tube

Fassbinder's 15-Hour Masterpiece

Plus Best of 2006 and Taxi tales

Threat-Level: Killer Tadpole

Korean box-office monster emerges from the Han River to slime us stateside

Die Hard With a Vengeance

Best served cold, Park Chanwook's brutal revenge feast comes with a side of live octopus

Play It Again, Siam

Gods and monsters: Thai fest balances imports, local wares

Traveling Film Festival Brings Third-World Movies to U.S.

The French Inhale

Blue Crush

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Girl

Pardon Our French

Housekeepers, Bullfighters, Demonlovers

Le Freak, C'est Chic

Red Badges of Courage

Shopping in the Spirit of May Day

Industry Standard

Rotterdam’s Desert Storms

Tigers, Copulating Horses, Camel(s)

Webbed Feat

From Louis XIV to Le Hip-Hop

French Choreographers Transform American Moves

Unheavenly Creatures

Weather Forecasts

All About His Mother

Peter Mullan’s Debut: An Orphan No More

Talk of Angels

A French Director's Star-Making Debut

Bugging Out