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...that the best documentaries reveal politics through personalities. In the gritty, buoyant Kim they found a person who symbolized both the lower depths of urban life and the resilience, when faced with an impossible challenge, to rise to a level higher than flood tide. Maybe Kim, Scott and their crew were no angels before Katrina, but that doesn't matter--because in Trouble the Water, we see the lives of the saints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul Survivors | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...coast of Montenegro is a derelict place. Colossal jetties stretch out from an abandoned work yard piled with crumbling concrete, twisted metal rods and broken glass. In one corner, a Cold War-era submarine, its giant propeller exposed to the summer winds, is being slowly dismantled by a local crew in flip-flops. The berths are fouled with paint chips and rusted metal, and until a recent scavenging operation, explosives lay on the seabed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tivat: The Next Monaco | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...most of his young life. He had just earned 5 shillings for washing someone's cow, and his friends wanted to walk five miles to the only black-and-white TV in town to watch something called the Olympics. Lomong had never heard of such a thing. When his crew finally arrived, he had to pay to see the tube. Price: 5 shillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flag Man Stands Down | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...Wrecking Crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...role as an African-American sergeant that he has undergone a surgical procedure to darken his skin. With the film a month behind schedule after five days of shooting, the director (Steve Coogan) decides to go for that verismo vibe: they'll finish the film with no crew around, only hidden cameras and surprise explosions. But a couple of things go wrong, and the stars, plus rapper-actor Chino (Brandon T. Jackson) and tyro talent Kevin Sandusky (Jay Baruchel), wander into a real war with actual bad guys and live ammunition. Art meets life; schlock faces imminent death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tropic Thunder Brings Jungle Fever | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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