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  • The First Beautiful Thing (NR)

    The protagonist of this 2010 Italian drama is a failed writer whose depression and fear of intimacy escalate after he's called back to his hometown to care for his dying mother. more...
  • The First Breath of Tengan Rei (NR)

    Ten years after being raped by a pair of U.S. servicemen in Okinawa, a young Japanese woman (Erika Oda) travels to Chicago and kidnaps the teenage son (Katori Eason) of one culprit (Sean Nix). more...
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  • First Men in the Moon (NR)

    Crackpot professor Lionel Jeffries leads an 1899 expedition in an entertaining 1964 children's fantasy based on an H.G. Wells novel. more...
  • First Position (NR)

    Documentaries about children's competitions (Spellbound et al) have become so rigidly formulaic you begin to wonder whether what you're watching isn't just reality TV with theatrical distribution. more...
  • The First Rasta (NR)

    Reggae musician Bob Marley is probably most Americans' link to Rastafarianism; Leonard Percival Howell, founder of the Jamaican nationalist movement, remains largely unknown, yet this documentary by Hélène Lee, author of a French biography, and codirector Christophe Farnarier seems designed to enshroud Howell in myth. more...
  • Five Hours From Paris (NR)

    This bittersweet romantic comedy (2009) centers on the anxieties of a good-natured Tel Aviv cabbie (Dror Keren): he’s afraid of airplanes but needs to fly to Paris for his son’s bar mitzvah, his ex-wife’s new husband wants him to invest in a dubious business enterprise, and he’s smitten with his son’s music teacher, an attractive—and married—Russian emigre (Elena Yaralova). more...
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  • Flashdance (NR)

    Silly but energetic, this feature-length music video (1983) by Adrian Lyne, with a Giorgio Moroder score, stars Jennifer Beals as a welder who spends her nights wowing blue-collar customers with her fancy erotic dances. more...
  • The Flat (NR)

    Documentary maker Arnon Goldfinger (The Komediant) was cleaning out the Tel Aviv apartment of his German Jewish grandmother after her death when he discovered that she'd carried on a close friendship with a high-ranking Nazi official and his wife. more...
  • The Flower of Doom (NR)

    After accidently giving a cabaret singer a valuable piece of jewelry, a crime reporter must save her from the clutches of a Chinatown gang. more...
  • Flowing (NR)

    Brimful and elusive, like the Heraclitean river that forever moves while standing still, Mikio Naruse's 1956 masterpiece, about a geisha house come on hard times (and not incidentally running athwart modernizing currents in Japanese culture), poises at the indefinable edge of variation and stasis, between evanescent incident and immutable form. more...
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