"'The Gold Cup is going to leave Seattle. I don't want to start a controversy," said Cantrell, a rough-hewn, outspoken hydro jockey from Detroit. 'But I don't think a Seattle boat will win. Maybe it will be a Nevada boat, maybe one of our Eastern jobs. But it's leaving here. We're going to beat Muncey." more ›

It's a live question. Still Life is a docudrama about the aftereffects of China’s Three Gorges hydro project: a 2,000-year-old town has been submerged, the new version isn't quite built yet, and people are feeling more than a little rootless. The drama comes from Sanming, a miner looking for his ex-wife, and Shen Hong, a nurse looking for her husband. No less a personage than Manohla Dargis called the film "a human triumph," but it closes on October 2. Not much time left! more ›