A film premiered at Sundance last night about an artist that couldn’t be filmed, or wouldn’t. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” is about a French shopkeeper and an amateur director that wanted to make a documentary about the prolific, and famously secretive artist named Banksy.

Soundtrack for a Revolution is the story of how music played a significant, powerful role in the Civil Rights movement. From Mahalia Jackson’s “How I Got Over” to her mentoring of the inimitable Aretha Franklin who carried the torch to the numerous artists that held steadfast during their careers so that these young instruments like The Roots, TV on the Radio and John Legend could perform all over the world.

Aaron Rose has long been a force in bringing marginalized artists and creators into mainstream culture, like skate, music and film. From his work with RVCA and Nike to his Alleged gallery (RIP) and Beautiful Losers art show and documentary, Rose has been at the flashpoint of many amazing artists careers such as Phil Frost, Barry McGee, Ed Templeton and many more.

If only it was this simple to be able to spend your next decade on Pandora ! Thanks to Peter Ammenthorp Lund’s inspired video and photo shop skills we can at least dream of it while like me heading off for a 3rd or 4th round at the IMax.

Animation wunderkind Mark Langan… Something about tennis balls and God.

How did I know the Raiders were cool? When all the breakdancers in my school – which was in suburban Chicago, far from the Raiders’ then-L.A. home – started wearing the team’s distinctive silver and black, pirate-themed gear. Ice Cube apparently seems to agree – he’s made a documentary about his Raider love for ESPN called “Straight Outta L.A”

Flash-mobs are random, awesome, fun, and awe-inspiring! Wikepedia defines a flash mob as a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. These spontaneous group performances reveal that there are people out there are working to make something fun and awesome, and giving it to others without expecting anything in return.

It makes perfect sense for Terry Richardson to shoot the 2010 Pirelli Calendar. I mean who else but the lecherous but oh-so talented model photographer would be the first to be tapped to shoot a bunch of really hot women in the jungles of Malaysia (?).

Hipsters, thugs, and assorted hangers on all crammed into L.A.’s Silent Movie Theater last night for a private screening of The Carter, the Lil’ Wayne documentary that’s had the Internet goin’ nuts for months – first because Wayne yanked his support from it, and next because there’s a dope trailer floating around that suggests the movie might, in fact, be amazing. Well, for once, trailers don’t lie – The Carter is a masterpiece, an incredibly vivid and detailed look into the life and process of a great artist.

Finally, a movie that looks like it just might satisfy sports fans and Oscar voters. Invictus, the new movie directed by Clint Eastwood, belongs to probably the saddest sub-section of sports movies there is: the rugby film. Furthermore, it’s a sweeping historical drama, not a rah-rah tearjerker (Hoosiers) or comedy (Slap Shot) that make up the more successful films about athletes.

Palladium Boots has a cool series called “Uneven Terrain” that explores some of the man-made odd-modern landscapes, that are simultaneously strange yet interesting from an anthropological standpoint. The scars of the industrial revolution to be navigated by today’s explorers. Recently, they went in search of oil underneath Los Angeles, which is already pretty “meta” if you live here.

While this may only appeal to certain TV geeks, we have a feeling that the Hollywood cliche of making a movie from a popular ’80s TV show might actually be good. No, it’s the the story, which apparently focuses on a group of Iraq War veterans who are hoping to clear their names, suspected of committing war crimes.

“Still Bill” has its UK premiere at the London BFI Film Festival this weekend, capturing the life and times of Bill Withers. Filmmakers Damani Baker and Alex Vlack went on a crusade to find out why America’s most beloved singer/songwriter went into a self imposed exile at the height of his career and still manage to remain present in the music charts.

Check out “Nuerosonics Aeromedical Labs” and Flux’ interview with Chris Cairns, who was also part of their film screening series at the Hammer Museum.

Sunday’s New York Times had a great story about the wonderkin Spike Jonze, not simply gushing about his award-winning films but his true maverick spirit from his early years as an editor of Freestyle, the late BMX magazine where he got his start. The Times writer points to those that “gave” him the freedom to explore his own musings.

It’s the duty of any self-respecting music fan to check out the new documentary It Might Get Loud when it starts slinking into theaters August 14th. There’s a reason why this film was a favorite at the Berlin, Sundance, and Toronto film fests: it rocks, figuratively and literally. Directed by Davis Guggenheim – who previously helmed the eco classic An Inconvenient Truth…

Aw’right, we were psyched when we heard that innovative film director Spike Jonze was taking on Maurice Sendak’s surreal children’s-book-classic-for-all-ages Where The Wild Things Are. Then we got even more amped when we heard it was coming out soon (October 16!!!). After we saw the dope trailer soundtracked with one of our favorite songs…

It was only a matter of time before the words ‘hillbilly’ and ’skatepark’ were meshed together in a timeless story of perpetual adolescence and backwoods abandon. Skatopia is a film about an Appalachian ‘teenage skate cult’ where skating, punk rock and hillbilly culture collide.

Surf films have largely been male lore. I have memories of Friday packed-house screenings at the movie house on Main St. in Huntington, all dudes. Similar to early morning sessions, girls were in absentia (much to my chagrin). Now, women have taken their proper place in the trajectory of the sport.

It certainly isn’t the sportiest film on the horizon, and probably way geeky, especially considering the ’80s version which hasn’t aged well. However, as the news of this new sequel has trickled out, the evidence of something very cool is high.