• If you’re in New York this Summer and love documentaries, [...]

  • Wowsers! Thirty years ago the now-venerable institution that is MTV [...]

  • Every week we pick our favorite new films from Vimeo. This week, it's a short documentary film featuring Jay-Z and Kanye West as well as the Evan Heath-directed Why Bother and Sweet Summer Rain by Bill Newsinger, which incorporates black & white photography, rain and music really well.

  • It's out, it's out, it's out! The dark knight trailer is out. Oh, sorry, you thought I was talking about the movie? That's another 365 days before the last Batman movie is released--July 20, 2012, to be precise. So for now, feast your eyes on this trailer, courtesy of Youtube, Warner Brothers and Legendary Pictures, it's pure trailer hotness. My question is, are we going to find a leaked copy and if so, how quickly?

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  • Director Chris Paine's "Revenge of the Electric Car" will be released this fall in a "non-traditional" distribution format by Area23a. The film will have both regular theatrical runs in large cities as well as some one-time screenings, and will expand to a larger market across the U.S. later this fall. "Revenge" premiered at Tribeca this year, and is slated to be the closing feature at this year's Silverdocs.

  • A New York investment banker for thirteen years, Ami Horowitz has turned documentary filmmaker and made what looks like a scintillating—but unforgiving--study of the United Nations’ position in world affairs. There is art after investment banking. What’s especially thrilling about Horowitz is that he seems to pour all his investment banker energies into his documentary, standing squarely in front of the camera and addressing us with poise and combative energy.