I am sitting two feet away from Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris. He is screaming at me. And I couldn’t be more pleased. Morris’s latest documentary feature, Standard Operating Procedure (released by Sony Pictures Classics and Participant Media in Los Angeles on May 2) is not just about Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and its administration by the U.S. military. With the same trademark élan evident in The Fog of War, his Academy Award- winning doc on former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara

There is something in the air and it’s more than Spring pollen. The film programming that has currently reared its head in the Los Angeles area seems more than usually compelling. One can begin with the always inventive and cutting edge American Cinematheque, programming at both the Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard and the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.

Every trick he's ever learned making films are included in Oscar-winning director, Claude Lelouche's intriguing Roman de Gare. Starring Dominique Pinon and Fanny Ardant, Mr. Lelouch weaves a tale of mystery and uncertainty, which is clearly resolved in the 103 minutes of the encumbering plot of this film. It spins, twists, turns and what you see is not entirely what you get as the plot increasingly shifts its point of view from one character to another. At the bottom lies fame, fortune and the possibility of a new genius author about to be presented on the literary scene.

Martin Scorsese has had his hand on several of the best rock movies ever, and he keeps his batting average improbably high via the Rolling Stones with Shine A Light.  Shot over two nights in NYC’s Beacon Theatre in late 2006, the film provides the bulk of the far more energetic second night.  Less epochal than his landmark work with The Band on The Last Waltz (presumably the Stones will continue to roll), Shine A Light is more of a snapshot of a band in motion and less of a retrospective.

The hodge-podge known as Boarding Gate opening at Laemmle's Sunset 5 on March 28 makes one think that director/Writer Olivier Assayas,Cinematographer Yorick Le Saux's , and Asia Argento, its star, were all under the spell of the heroin they were trying to sell. The flow, the continuity, the dialogue and the plot follow no chronological sequences anyone could decipher. Yes, there is action, murder and mayhem as Asia totes her gun around, firing it, never reloading it, always seemingly as accurate as any sharp markswoman can be.

Deception, passion, and some of the difficulties and restraints of married life get an exciting, artistic and absorbing look in Ira Sach's Married Life Set in the late 40's, with the appropriate look and feel of the cars, restaurants, offices, homes and, of course, smoking evident everywhere, we meet Harry (Chris Cooper), who is married to Pat (Patricia Clarkson) but has now fallen in love with Kay (Rachel McAdams), while his best friend and confidante, Richard (Pierce Brosnan), has fallen for Kay also! Simple? Well, not so for Harry has decided to kill his wife rather than make her suffer the knowledge that he wants to leave her. Meanwhile, Patricia, as we discover, has a few surprises of her own to share with Harry.

You say you haven't been anywhere?  You say you have that wanderlust feeling?  You say, "I wonder what it would be like to travel around the world?" Tell you what I'm gonna do....I'm gonna recommend you take a trip to Last Stop For Paul when it opens tomorrow at your favorite movie theater. Together with Cliff and Charley, you will plane, boat, train and visit some of the most interesting places in our world.

At the big premiere for Disney’s College Road Trip, budding young Hollywood stars were looking glamorous on the red carpet. They were on hand to celebrate with two fun-loving former child performers, Raven Symone and Donny Osmond, who star with Martin Lawrence (of Bad Boys fame).

Just when you thought there could never be another film about the Holocaust, along comes the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film: The Counterfeiters. Written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, the film tells the story of Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch, played remarkably by Karl Markovics who has a special talent: counterfeiting bills and passports.

Ah the trust we give so fully, so completely to people who work for us though we know so little about them. In his newest film, The Unknown Woman - a story of mystery and love, writer-director Giuseppe Tornatore of Cinema Paradise fame, once again is joined by the composer, Ennio Morricone and actress, Xenia Rappoport as the heroine in a most unusual "film noir".