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.

New York-based photographer Taghi Naderzad recently shot a portrait of [...]

For the first time since he was in his 2006 picture “Scoop,” Woody Allen has given himself a part in his next film, which has the working title of “The Bop Decameron” and is due to start filming in Rome in July. The Decameron is the name of Boccacio’s erotic 14th-century stories, often made into film, most famously by Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1971 and also by Fellini/de Sica et al for the 1962 "Boccacio 70." Alec Baldwin, Penelope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page and Roberto Benigni star. Thus, year in, year out, the director pays his tithe to the gods of cinema, this time around surely especially buoyed by the resounding and well-deserved success of his multi-actored, multi-period “Midnight in Paris.”

As Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life," which opened in major cities at the end of last month, is getting ready for its nationwide rollout, a how-to featurette has been released by distributor Fox Searchlight Pictures in the hopes that it will help shepherd the meditative film across the dusty trails that await. Because in order for a movie to make money, as Mike Fleming of Deadline New York reports, it needs to connect with a young audience and as anyone who's seen "The Tree of Life" knows, this might be a head-scratching challenge for the distributor.

Sony Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to Detention Films’ [...]

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