The Manhattan Project by Cameron Michael.

The Manhattan Project HD1080P from Cameron Michael on Vimeo.

This is great.

From The Atlantic, via Kotke a short film by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason.

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Excuse this shameless bit of jacking from Ego Trip’s classic site, but you must check out this remarkable BBC documentary:

This could be good.

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Check out this beautiful little movie by Dustin Cohen.

The Watchmaker from Dustin Cohen on Vimeo.

I saw a wonderful documentary over the weekend.

Just see it.

Here’s Buck on Letterman:

Manohla Dargis reviewed the movie last summer in the Times:

Working with the cinematographers Guy Mossman and Luke Geissbühler, and shooting in digital that I often wished were film (the big-sky landscapes deserve a more nuanced texture), she tags after Mr. Brannaman, well, kind of as his trained horses do. That isn’t a bad thing. He and all the pretty horses make for mesmerizing viewing, especially when he’s quieting colts (he calls them babies) and their often more jittery handlers. “A lot of times,” he says in the voice-over that opens the movie, “rather than helping people with horse problems, I’m helping horses with people problems.”

Sometimes they’re the same thing, as a violent interlude with a weepy woman and her seemingly crazed stallion proves. This part of the movie works like a punch to the gut, but, given how close it edges into hagiography, it’s also necessary as a reminder of what’s really at stake. “Buck” is an imperfect documentary. It leaves nagging questions unanswered, including the fate of Mr. Brannaman’s brother, and the movie’s beauty shots at times threaten to embalm nature instead of exalting it. Yet in some sense it was beauty that saved Mr. Brannaman, that of his conscience and that of horses, which, having been tied to humans long ago, became companions, workers and for some, as this lovely movie shows, saviors.

Zorianna Kit’s Q&A with Buck answers  some of those nagging questions.

Oh, and Johnny France plays a small but critical role in Buck’s life. Go figure.

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Seconds Of Beauty – 1st round compilation from The Beauty Of A Second on Vimeo.

Check out this cool short “Seconds of Beauty,” by The Beauty of a Second.

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Check out the first part of a video essay series on Steven Spielberg. From Matt Zoller Seitz, Ali Arikan, and Serena Bramble.

Check “Address is Approximate,” by The Theory:

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

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Sunday and Monday on American Masters:

Watch Woody Allen: A Documentary on PBS. See more from AMERICAN MASTERS.

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The PBS documentary “An American Family” is the subject of a new HBO movie.

Here is the original series (thanks to Matt B for the link).

Tonight on American Experience a documentary about the Stonewall uprising.

Watch the full episode. See more American Experience.

This looks terrific.

From the Gothamist…man, does this ever look fuggin’ great (peace to Robby Rob for the link).

There’s a new documentary called Jews and Baseball. Looks promising. My father’s family is Jewish and baseball is the game that we care about. So many sportswriters are Jews, and yeah, there have been a couple of pretty good Jewish players as well.

I covered the last game at the old Yankee Stadium for SI. Spent almost the entire time trailing Ray Negron, who at one point, gave a two-hour private tour of the place to a party of four headlined by Richard Gere. The filmmaker Barbara Kopple was part of the media swarm and she followed Ray and his group with her camera crew, hoping to get some footage of Gere. For his part, Gere was gracious and allowed her to film him some.

Well, Kopple’s ESPN documentary will air soon but it seems that Yankee president Randy Levine doesn’t much care for it. Which means, it might be pretty good, after all.