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Inside The Monster
Via the ever-essential site, Kottke, comes this:...

Bruce Weber's Broken Noses
Before Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber made Broken Noses. ...

Knock Out: Cutie And The Boxer
Cutie and the Boxer is a new documentary about two New York artists. ...

Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop
Over at Grantland, dig this cool short film by Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg on Wilt Chamberlain in the Catskills. ...

Fair Play?
Robert Lipsyte, ESPN's Ombudsman looks at why the first-rate documentary, Let Them Wear Towels, was seemingly buried when it was aired on the same night as the All-Star Game. ...

I Wanted To Make Boring Things Seem Dramatic
The Talking Heads vs. Television....

Let Them Wear Towels: How Far Have We Really Come?
Never mind the All-Star Game, tonight on ESPN gives Let Them Wear Towels. Over at ESPNW, Robin Herman asks How Far Have We Really Come?...

Everybody Street
Over at Lomography, Cheryl Dunn talks about this cool-looking new documentary about New York City street photographers....

Bounce, Rock, Skate
Stacy Peralta's 2001 documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys is a riveting thrill ride of pop-sport history. If you've never seen it—doesn't matter if are into skateboarding or not—do yourself a favor. ...

A Day in the Life
...Of the Baltimore Sun back in the 1970s. Check out Helen Whitney's classic short, First Edition:...

The Summer Game
Nice piece by Adam Sobsey over at the Paris Review on what promises to be a great documentary: Bull City Summer....

Steve Buscemi Is Producing A Documentary On An Indiana High School Basketball Team
Medora High School has one of the smallest student bodies in the state of Indiana—two years ago, the senior class had just 16 students—and the win/loss record of its boys' basketball team suffers as a result. (A lot.) Yet, in 2009, the team's continued perseverance and tenacity caught the attention ...

Documentary Won't Bring Back Sonics, But It Might Make Seattle Cry
Three NBA fans from Seattle have created a documentary about the theft of their beloved Supersonics and put it online for free, because even though you know it accomplishes nothing, sometimes you just have to wail at the sky....