V-Day: Until the Violence Stops

Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues spurred a global fund-raising movement in 2002, with proceeds from benefit performances in over 800 cities going to organizations that combat violence against women. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall

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V for Vendetta

A popcorn movie that preaches mass rebellion against the government—what's not to like? more...

• by J.R. Jones

V.I. Warshawski

A strictly standard-issue private-eye caper based on Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski novels set in Chicago; the plot (script by Edward Taylor, David Aaron Cohen, and Nick Thiel) is simplified Raymond Chandler by way of simplified Ross Macdonald, complete with so-so imitations of some of the former's wisecracks salted with a feminist twist. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

V is for Video

These experimental videos are all over the map, though they share a sense of humor that will seem either hip or snarky depending on your taste for postmodern irony. more...

• by Hank Sartin

V.O.

William Jones reedits gay porn from the 70s and 80s for this 59-minute 2006 video, removing the sex and creating a suggestive poetry out of glances, gropes, undressings, elaborate cruising moves, and crotch close-ups—which some will find more stimulating than the clinical details of the real thing. more...

• by Fred Camper

V-Day 11.11.11

To create this documentary, more than two dozen video makers recorded U.S. military veterans going about their daily business on November 11, 2011. more...

• Tags: Documentary

Va savoir

Having won more mainstream accolades than most of his other work combined, this enjoyable romantic comedy by 73-year-old Jacques Rivette may be his first real hit (1991's La belle noiseuse is the only other contender). more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Vaada

A new love story by Indian director Satish Kaushik (Tere Naam), with Arjun Rampal and Amisha Patel. more...

Vacancy

A bickering couple (Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson) are forced to check into a seedy motel after their car breaks down, and they discover that someone is making snuff videos there, with the occasional guests as victims. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

Vacant Lot

Local filmmaker Skee Skinner makes his feature debut with this likable but simpleminded drama about a young, idealistic jazz trumpeter. more...

• by Ted Shen

Vacation

Thomas Arslan directed this 2007 German drama about an extended family meeting in an isolated country house and the unexpected illness that threatens to upset their idyll. more...

Vacationland

Part coming-out story, part small-town drama, Todd Verow's apparently heartfelt tale is imperfectly told. more...

• by Fred Camper

Films by Karel Vachek

Czech filmmaker Karel Vachek will screen and discuss clips from four of his films: Elective Affinities, Bohemia Docta, What Is to Be Done?, and New Hyperion (the last three to be screened in their entirety this week at Facets Multimedia Center; see separate listings). more...

Vagabond

The road movie takes a somber turn in this austerely beautiful 1985 French drama by Agnes Varda. more...

• by Peter Keough

The Vagabond

Indian filmmaker Raj Kapoor first began to slip social commentary into his broad, popular entertainments with this 1951 feature. more...

• by Dave Kehr