Y  -  ALL FILMS  2003 - 6/2009
YACOUBIAN BUILDING, THE (d. Marwan Hamed; Egypt) ** 3/4
YASMIN (d. Kenny Glennan) Drama about a family of Pakis in England after 9/11. Scary and truthful, but as a film sort of primitive.  ** 3/4
YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION, THE (d. Cao Hamburger; Brazil) ***
YEAR OF THE WOLF, THE (d. Olli Saarela) ***
YEAR WITHOUT LOVE, A (d. Anahi Berneri) Quietly affecting, often raunchy film journal about an S&M bottom with AIDS.  *** 1/4
YEAR ZERO(d. Joseph Patchhadze)  *** 1/4                                           
YELLA (d. Christian Petzold) ***
YES (d. Sally Potter) Romantic woman's pic in rhymed verse.  Joan Allen exudes sex; but for me Potter remains an elusive taste.  ** 1/2
YES MEN FIX THE WORLD, THE (d. Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr) *** 1/4
YES NURSE, NO NURSE  (Netherlands  d. Pieter Kramer)  Full-on, campy musical in the Singing in the Rain tradition.  Silly; but great fun.  ***
YESTERDAY (d. Darrell Roodt) Picturesque & heartfelt So. African AFF about a rural Zulu family ravaged by AIDS.  ***
YMCA BASEBALL TEAM  (S. Korea  d. Kim Hyeun-seok) Historical pageant about the first baseball team in Korea as metaphor for national identity. ** 3/4
YOSSI & JAGGER  (Israel  d. Eytan Fox)  Unexpectedly good drama about a gay relationship in the Israeli army.  *** 1/4
YOU AND ME (d. Julie Lopes-Curval) ** 3/4
YOU ARE SO HANDSOME (d. Isabelle Mergault) ** 3/4
YOU BET YOUR LIFE (d. Antonin Svoboda; Austria) ** 1/2
YOU I LOVE (d. Olga Stopovskaja & Dimitru Troitskji) Screwball modern day Russian comedy about a bisexual commercial maker who falls for a guy.  * 3/4
YOU, THE LIVING (d. Roy Andersson; Sweden) ** 3/4
YOUNG ADAM (d. David Mackenzie) Dark Scottish film, slow & sexy, visually dull, but unexpectedly poignant. Ewen has never been more attractive. ***
YOUNG BLOOD (Pura Sangre)  (d. Leo Ricciardi) ** 3/4
YOUNG PEOPLE FUCKING (d. Martin Gero) *** 1/4
YOUNG UNKNOWNS, THE (d. Catherine Jelski) Four screwed up, overpriveleged L.A. 20-somethings have a memorable night.  ** 3/4
YOUR LIFE IN '65 (Tu Vida in 65') (d. Maria Ripoll) *** 1/4
YOUR NEXT LIFE (d. Manuel Aragón) A satisfying romance/drama about two feuding farming families in the Pyrannies.  ** 3/4
YOUTH RUN AMOK (Short program)
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (d. Francis Ford Coppola) Beautiful, Roth is fine; but wha....!?  ** 1/2