| April 1 |
- Indie box office: Lennon's assassin a hit, man
- "Chapter 27" strong in NYC bow -- and don't miss an ultra-cool doc on L.A.'s hot modern art scene.
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| April 2 |
- Mr. Wong, meet No. 44
- Was this the strangest all-time mismatched-celebrity elevator ride?
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| April 3 |
- Wong Kar-wai's blueberry-pie America
- In this video interview, the Chinese art-film demigod talks about directing Norah Jones in his first American movie (and her first movie, period).
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| April 4 |
- Winona! Mongolia! Teen lesbian swimmers!
- Indie roundup: All the women you'll ever boff -- revealed! Plus a creepy French tale of poolside teen lust and a great love story from Mongolia.
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| April 8 |
- French cinema's prickly stepmom
- A new DVD box set captures the puzzling genius of Agnès Varda, maybe the least-appreciated great filmmaker of Europe's golden age.
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| April 10 |
- "Model minority" goes nutzoid
- Meryl Streep's atrocious hairdo takes on a sweet, gun-totin' Chinese astrophysics student in "Dark Matter."
- Suburban housewife seeks Asian stud
- Vera Farmiga burns up the screen in a startling erotic melodrama. Plus: "Model minority" goes nutzoid!
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| April 11 |
- Meditation for murderers
- Buddhism without parole, in Alabama's darkest prison. Plus: Hot housewife seeks Asian stud, physics geek goes nutzoid and more.
- Israel's Nazi-porn problem
- Hot she-wolves of the SS, rescued from the memory hole. Also: Buddhism for murderers, housewife seeks Asian stud and more.
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| April 18 |
- The pope, the Jews and repentance
- Leading Catholic dissident James Carroll talks about Pope Benedict's visit, and the church's failure to confront its anti-Semitic history.
- Where in the world is Morgan Spurlock's 'stache?
- Likable "Super Size Me" director searches for video-game villain (and '80s rapper) Osama bin Laden, yuks it up with Arab citizenry.
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| April 22 |
- From the Riviera to Abu Ghraib
- This week: Cannes announces its selections (almost), Tribeca kicks off, and Errol Morris plumbs the dark secrets behind those torture photos.
- Charlie Wilson's unfinished war
- The legendary Texas congressman talks about his secret 1980s Afghan war (and its blowback), the Obama campaign and being better-looking than Tom Hanks.
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| April 23 |
- Indy, Clint and Che hit the Côte d'Azur
- Eastwood's "Changeling" and Soderbergh's four-hour "Che" top an impressive Eurocentric lineup at 61st Cannes festival.
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| April 24 |
- Trash-meister strikes back!
- Much-hated German director Uwe Boll reneges on promise to quit, pronounces self "only genius in the whole fucking business."
- What's hot (and not) at Tribeca
- "Speed Racer" zooms, David Mamet knows kung fu, a Fellini rediscovery and much more at New York's downsized (but still glitzy) spring fest.
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| April 25 |
- Interrogating Abu Ghraib
- Errol Morris on his film "Standard Operating Procedure," why Lynndie England and others took photographs, and how the infamous images conceal as much as they reveal (podcast and video).
- Guillermo del Toro to make "Hobbit" films: Bleah!
- A director who hates Tolkien, enslaved in New Zealand by a latter-day George Lucas. Whose brilliant idea was this?
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| April 28 |
- He conquered the World Trade Center
- "Man on Wire" and its daredevil star thrill Tribeca, but Mamet's "Redbelt" is a jiu-jitsu pratfall. Plus: Is Brecht still relevant?
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| April 29 |
- No "Sex" on the beach at Cannes
- Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness," starring Julianne Moore, to open Cannes fest, with Barry Levinson's "What Just Happened?" as the closer.
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| April 30 |
- Three films about poverty, murder and Coca-Cola
- Take a rattle-trap road trip with a trio of Romanian losers, a haunting cruise "Up the Yangtze" and a silky slide into a Hitchcock-lite thriller.
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