Z  -  ALL FILMS  2003 - 6/2009
Z CHANNEL: A MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (d. Alexandra Cassavettes)V. Well made, informative docu on Jerry Harvey with great movie clips.  *** 1/2
ZACK AND MIRA MAKE A PORNO (d. Kevin Smith) Intermittantly funny and Rogan is the perfect pomo hero...still, Smith's script sucks.  ** 1/2
ZATOICHI (d. Takeshi Kitano) Sorry, I was sort of bored...but the Japanese "Riverdance" rhythmic stuff was fun, if weird.  ** 1/2
ZELARY (d. Ondrej Trojan) Beautifully realized WWII story of a nurse who escapes from the Gestapo to a small Czech village & finds herself. *** 1/2
ZHOU YU'S TRAIN (d. Sun Zhou) Elliptical romantic drama about a woman torn by conflicting love for two men. Confusing and overwrought.  * 3/4
ZIFT (d. Vladislav Todorov; Bulgaria)  ***
ZIM AND CO. (d. Pierre Jolivet) ***
ZODIAC (d. David Fincher) Fascinating procedural which plays like All the Presidents Men rather than Se7en.  *** 1/4
ZOZO (d. Josef Fares; Sweden) ***
ZUS & ZO  (d.  Paula van der Oest)  Netherlands AFF.  Family farce about 3 sisters and their gay brother.  *** 1/4