Word: rize
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There are the inner-city kids of Rize, who raise local spirits by dressing up in clown costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything...
...specialty cinemas. But the new dockers--documentary filmmakers--want to reach everyone they can. "From Day One I wanted to make a film that was for the cineplex, not for the art house," says David LaChapelle, the hip magazine photographer and video director making his feature debut with Rize. "I wanted to make a broad, popular film. I come from pop art, and I wanted to make a film that was popular...