Film Search
- Oct 26, 1985
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Y Tu Mama Tambien (R)
A genuine rarity: a sex comedy with brains. more...
- Jul 7, 2006
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Yacht Rock
Created for the Internet video site Channel 101, Yacht Rock (2005-'06) was a surprisingly rich, lovingly snarky sitcom about 70s soft rock, tracing the shifting allegiances and mostly fanciful schemes of studio lizards like Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross, and Toto. more...
- Oct 20, 2006
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The Yacoubian Building
In Alaa Al Aswany's hugely popular novel the real-life Yacoubian building, erected to house Cairo's elite and since fallen into genteel decay, functions as a compact metaphor for the shifting strata of a crumbling Egyptian class system. more...
- Oct 25, 2002
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Yad-o-yadegar
Also known as Memory and Memorandum, this 2001 documentary by Mostafa Razzagh Karimi and Mojalal Varahram about the geography, history, and diverse cultures of Iran proceeds without narration or dialogue. more...
- Mar 3, 2011
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Yael Bartana: A Declaration (NR)
The Amsterdam- and Tel Aviv-based artist will screen and discuss works including The Polish Trilogy, Kings of the Hill, Wild Seeds, and A Declaration. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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The Yakuza (R)
Film student Paul Schrader hit the Hollywood jackpot with this clever blend of gangster flick and Asian chop-chop (his screenplay reportedly went for $300,000). more...
- Oct 8, 2015
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Yakuza Apocalypse
An organized crime family maintain an underground cell where they keep their enemies shackled to the floor and make them learn how to knit. more...
- Dec 11, 2020
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Yalda, A Night for Forgiveness
Apparently there exists in Iran a reality show where people accused of crimes are pardoned upon being publicly forgiven by their victims’ families—this and other, real-life events inspired the basis of writer-director Massoud Bakhshi's grimly labyrinthine social drama, centered on Maryam (Sadaf Asgari), a young woman convicted of killing her older, wealthier husband. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Yana's Friends
Written and directed by Arik Kaplun, a Russian émigré to Israel, this overly contrived and broadly comic 1999 feature focuses on a group of immigrants in a Tel Aviv neighborhood during the gulf war. more...
- Jun 2, 2006
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Yang Ban Xi: The 8 Model Works
During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese theater and cinema were limited to productions of “model works,” ideological operas commissioned by Madam Mao; three decades after that calamitous period, propaganda pieces like The Red Women's Detachment are being revived onstage in a much different China. more...
- Apr 2, 2004
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Yank Tanks
The clash between American consumer culture and Cuban revolutionary fervor plays out in a fascinating, unpredictable manner in this colorful 2002 feature by David Schendel, about an offbeat collection of Havana painters, auto mechanics, and former racers who are slavishly devoted to their vintage American cars. more...
- Jun 24, 1985
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
If you can push past the flag-waving, this Warner Brothers effort from 1942 is a superior entry in a dubious genre, the musical biography. more...