Thanks David.

A reality thriller that is a shocking product of our times, Catfish is a riveting story of love, deception and grace within a labyrinth of online intrigue.

A Mat Hoffman documentary. Directed by Jeff Tremaine, produced by Spike Jonze, Mark Lewman, Priya Swaminathan, Johnny Knoxville and Dickhouse Productions.

In Todd Solondz‘s Life During Wartime, Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Via

New movie Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky featuring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder and Barbara Hershey. Coming this December.

You just can’t watch monsieur Claude Lelouch‘s classic short film often enough.

Jacques Audiard’s Un Prophète tells the gripping story of 19 years old Tahar Rahim, an Arab who is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin.

Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry explores the roots of American tattooing through the biography of the legendary artist Norman “Sailor Jerry” Collins. It will be available from IndiePix on October 13th.

And just when you thought “Oh I have seen them all”, Uganda’s first action movie hits the stores.

The people from Mutiny Bikes put their epic Let’s Get Mystical online to watch it for free. If you still haven’t seen one of the best filmed and edited BMX films in awhile, this is your chance. Pictured above is part 1 of 6.

Teaser for Mark Pellington’s new movie coming in 2011. Via

Shot over a four year period, Holy Wars follows a danger-seeking Christian missionary and a radical Irish Muslim convert, both of whom believe in an apocalyptic battle, after which their religion will ultimately rule the world.

A 10-minute shortfilm by Rob Chiu focusing on three lives, three identities, three points of view, set against the harsh backdrop of inner city London.

In Last Train Home, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Lixin Fan tells the story of a family embarking on an annual tormenting journey along with 200 other million peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world’s next super power.

Great Directors, directed by Angela Ismailos, features conversations with ten of the world’s greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles.

The film traces the influence of cinematic movements and iconic directors on these directors’ work-from the role of Neo-Realism in Bertolucci’s evolution to the influence of Federico Fellini on David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman on Catherine Breillat and Rainer Werner Fassbinder on Todd Haynes.

Until The Light Takes Us screening at the Babylon Berlin Mitte on August 6, 7.30 pm.

‘Saviors and Angels’ is a short film trilogy by UNKLE, written and directed by Paul Andrew Williams featuring UNKLE songs, Caged Bird, The Runaway and Another Night Out.

The story about the founders of Facebook. Directed by David Fincher, so there is hope that this movie doesn’t turn out to be a total disaster.

Robert Rodriguez will release his new movie Machete this September. Featuring Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Robert De Niro, Cheech Marin, Lindsay Lohan, Steven Seagal and Don Johnson. What a cast!

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Jesse Zook Mann’s latest documentary Punk Jews delves into the radical Judaism scene in New York. From rebelling against orthodoxy to expressing culture and spirituality in unconventional ways, the movie documents three individuals who are taking Judaism to a place that celebrates freedom of expression and brings a new discourse to religious communities and their heritage in ancient traditions.

The first 8 minutes from Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast. 36°C are coming up this weekend in Berlin so see you at the poolside.

Westerners young and old arrive in Laos, and so do their cameras. They document a fragile and deceptively brutal world, revealing themselves in the process. Camera, Camera quietly calls upon viewers to ponder the multifaceted and often ambiguous impacts of travel and photography on citizens of two worlds.

180° South follows Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard (founder of the Patagonia company) and Doug Tompkins (founder of The North Face company) to Patagonia.

Along the way he gets shipwrecked off Easter Island, surfs the longest wave of his life and prepares himself for a rare ascent of Cerro Corcovado. Jeff’s life turns when he meets up with Chouinard and Tompkins who, once driven purely by a love of climbing and surfing, now value above all the experience of raw nature – and have come to Patagonia to spend their fortunes to protect it.

“When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got… A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.”

At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage.

Frank Giering, * November 23, 1971, † June 23, 2010.

“Refait” is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany (Seville, Spain, 1982). Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne (France), every aspect of the fifteen last minutes of the match was carefully reconstructed : players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc. It consists in shifting the traditional game area into the urban environment. Each sequence takes place in one or several locations and then the city temporarily becomes the lab for unsual experiments.
The soundtrack is made up of the original commentaries mixed with interviews of the audience recorded during the shooting.

Director Christopher Hewitt has completed a charity commercial for the Ghost Bikes organisation.

Beautifully shot and edited by Paper Fortress. Don’t miss his other videos on Vimeo. Via

The mindblowing montage scene from The Parallax View (1974) by Alan J. Pakula.

Teaser for Roman Gavras‘ first feature movie after several outstanding music videos for The Last Shadow Puppets, MIA and Justice.

“I thought it would be more interesting if I listed some things that I read and watched in preparation for the making of ‘Eastern Promises’ than just listing a random bunch of things that I like. Among these are The Mark of Cain, by Alix Lambert, … A companion piece to the Russian Criminal Tattoo books, this a very courageous documentary on the tattooing subculture in Russian prisons. I don’t know how it ever got made, but it’s beautiful, scary, and heartbreaking.” David Cronenberg