TV BUZZ – The prequel series to Werner Herzog’s documentary, Grizzly Man, premieres tonight on Animal Planet.The New York Times reviewed the show, and said it looks like “a chronicle of one man’s extended suicide”. Timothy Treadwell, the deceased star of Grizzly Man, is obviously the star of the show, as the 8 part documentary takes viewers through the hours of unused footage of Treadwell playing with bears, calling them names, and being generally crazy. Kids, don’t play with bears.

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The Best Links:

1. Scenes From The Grizzly Man Prequel
2. The Grizzly Man Diaries
3. Observer of Grizzly Bears, Seen in Haunting Hindsight
4. The Show Seems Set To Be Quite Worthwhile
5. An Exploration of a Man Trying to Find a Solid Center
6. Proximity Trumps Pathology

MOVIE BUZZ – A documentary airing on HBO tonight shows the lives of Iraqi teens who were given their own cameras to document their friendships and adolescent high school lives.Teens in Iraq - they’re just like us! Which is more than we can say for the cast of Laguna Beach.

The Best Links:

1. HBO Documentaries: Read the Synopsis
2. Iraq Kids Film Selves in New Documentary
3. HBO Always Seems to Hit Homeruns with their Documentaries
4. “It sounds like a fluffy reality show”
5. The Boys From Baghdad High

MOVIE BUZZ – A new documentary chronicles Philippe Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between the twin towers.The film, which won both the World Cinema Jury and Audience awards at Sundance, explains in detail how Petit managed to pull off the amazing stunt. Explaining why he was moved to perform the dangerous and illegal act, Petit responds, “When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk.”

The Best Links:

1. Man on Wire
2. Man on Wire -Review
3. Stood On A Wire, Looking Down 1/4 Of A Mile
4. excavation by spoonfulls: Man on Wire
5. Philippe Petit, Man on Wire
6. ‘Man On Wire’: Defying Gravity And Time : (Listen)
7. Philippe Petit

MOVIE BUZZ – An new documentary about industrial design from the guy who brought you Helvetica.Gary Hustwit turns his eye for design on the importance of manmade objects in our everyday lives. Design nerds, rejoice.

The Best Links:

1. Objectified: The Blog For The Film
2. T-Shirt For the Film is Already Available
3. Look Forward to Interviews With Some Design Greats
4. Like “Helvetica” For ID Dorks
5. “I can’t wait to see this!”

MOVIE BUZZ – New film exposes a fake Iraq in the Mojave Desert where real solders practice killing fake terrorists.That means the movie is a real documentary on a fictional reality — kinda like The Hills but with more killing.

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MOVIE BUZZ – A peek inside the varied world of people who love making balloons into something more.Sort of like a Wordplay for the ballon-twister set, the documentary takes you to “Twist and Shout,” a balloon twisting convention, and the lives of eight twisters. It’ll be playing at select theaters across the country this summer.

The Best Links:

1. A New Twist on Balloon Sculpture
2. Twisted - A Balloonamentary
3. Official TWISTED: A Balloonamentary Trailer
4. The Balloonamentary Blog

MOVIE BUZZ – The documentary (produced by Graydon Carter, Editor In Chief of Vanity Fair) chronicles the life of Doc Paskowitz, a Jewish surfer who raised nine children with his second wife in a tiny RV (only after having graduated from Stanford, practiced medicine, and raising two daughters with his first wife).For the record, the Paskowitz kids were raised intentionally poor, prohibited from attending school, and forced to bear witness to their parents’ healthy sexual activities night after night. And yet some might argue that he leaves the film unscathed. In other words, this is no Point Break.

The Best Links:

1. Watch The Trailer
2. Doc Paskowitz: An O.G. Self-Help Guru
3. An Interview With Director Doug Pray and The Paskowitz Family
4. “Dorian ‘Doc’ Paskowitz Was a Completely Self-centered Man Who Confused Hedonism With Enlightenment and Whose Pathalogical Need to Be “different” Rendered Him Incapable of Being Free. Now, Enjoy Your Surf Movie! Hippies in a Bus = Good Times!”
5. Surfwise: The Official Site
6. PopMatters Approves Of “Surfwise”
7. “If You’ve Ever Dreamed of Taking Your Family, Your Life, Way Off the Grid, Here’s the Ultimate Example. “
8. Visit “The Doc’s” Website (And Buy His Book If You So Please)
9. “Watching This Movie Will Make You Want to Sell All Your Worldly Possessions and Buy an RV, Convert It to Run On Waste Vegetable Oil and Travel the Country, Living from Whim to Whim.”

SCIENCE BUZZ – This online video - also available for download (beware: it’s 50mb!) - tackles the consequences of American hyper-consumption in a refreshingly irreverent manner.Seriously, shut down your computer, unplug your iPod, turn off your PDA, cap your water bottle, take off your sunglasses, and learn how to make a difference. Don’t worry - it’s only 20 minutes long, so you can get back to texting shortly.

The Best Links:

1. Watch “The Story of Stuff”
2. Al Gore 2.0?
3. “A Fairly Horrific Look at How We’re Winding Down Our Time On Planet Earth”
4. “The Story of Stuff” Blog
5. “It’s Persuasive But Not a Sermon. It’s Sophisticated But Not Esoteric. Its Tone is Light But Its Content is Serious.”
6. Find 20 Minutes to Possibly Change Your Life

MOVIE BUZZ – Two documentaries about Harry Potter-inspired pop music, websites, and other fan creations have surfaced in the past month.If you’re in the Boston area, you can even catch Harry and the Potters performing the screening for We Are Wizards. If there ever were a BuzzFeed cute band alert, Harry and the Potters would undoubtedly be one of them.

The Best Links:

1. Watch the Trailer for “We Are Wizards”
2. One of the Funnest Documentaries I’ve Ever Seen
3. Story About Makers of “The Wizard Rockumentary” from Their Hometown Newspaper
4. OMG I’m In This Movie!!
5. Movie Reminds Us That Pop Culture Can Be Inspirational
6. I am so obsessed with Harry and the Potters
7. “I guess by liking the film, I’m technically fan of the fans of the fans.”
8. The Official Website for “The Wizard Rockumentary”
9. Reviewer Gives “We Are Wizards” a 7.5/10

MOVIE BUZZ – A fascinating documentary by Ari Libsker about Nazi porn opens this week.Nazi pr0n! Even if you don’t get to see the movie, the backstory is pretty riveting.

The Best Links:

1. A Brief History of the Unexpected Way Stalag Books Came About
2. Porn: Holocaust Porn! (And Other Taboos)
3. Crams a Lot of Fascinating Stuff Into 63 Minutes
4. “The Pornographic Juxtaposition of Horniness and Horror”
5. Lengthy Movie Review Calls It “Engrossing”
6. Ari Libsker Explores a Phenomenon that Many Never Knew Existed
7. A Compilation of Various Movie Reviews
8. Stalags Playing at Film Forum
9. Remember This Scandal? F1A Boss Max Mosley Caught With Five Hookers In Nazi Orgy Video Scandal
10. Stalag on Wikipedia