Film Search
- Feb 3, 2006
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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...
- Mar 10, 2006
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V for Vendetta
A popcorn movie that preaches mass rebellion against the government—what's not to like? more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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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...
- Aug 20, 2004
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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...
- Feb 16, 2007
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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...
- May 22, 2012
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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...
- Oct 26, 1985
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Vacant Lot
Local filmmaker Skee Skinner makes his feature debut with this likable but simpleminded drama about a young, idealistic jazz trumpeter. more...
- Nov 3, 2006
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Vacationland
Part coming-out story, part small-town drama, Todd Verow's apparently heartfelt tale is imperfectly told. more...
- Oct 26, 1985
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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...
- Jun 23, 2016
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Vaclav Havel—A Life in Freedom
When a documentary maker begins by describing her subject as the nation's greatest hero, one doesn't anticipate any surprises, and none are forthcoming in this superficial portrait (2014) of Vaclav Havel, the Czech playwright who became a political dissident under communist rule and president of Czechoslovakia after the country went democratic. more...