Anomie, Italian Style by David N. Meyer No one connects to anyone; most can neither understand nor feel a union with their own emotions, impulses or actions. We are either blind or powerless before our faults; petty selfishness and fear of social rejection undermines any noble thinking; effort comes to naught; bourgeois civility wrecks the spirit; perceptions mislead; love either betrays, deludes, erodes or is ignored; sexuality offers a brief respite from the ennui but so underlines our pathetic mortality that it seems hardly worth the struggle. Junebug: Culture Collision by Tessa DeCarlo Junebug begins when a Chicago art dealer travels to a small town in North Carolina to sign up David Wark, an eccentric artist whose oeuvre is driven by a phallo-maniacal obsession with the Civil War. The push and pull between outsider artist and savvy gallerist is a lovely metaphor for the broader issues of country versus city, North versus South, secularism versus religion, red state versus blue that Junebug probes so deftly. Be True to Your School by Sarahjane Blum It’s been too long since a timeless high school movie came out that doesn’t insult the kids or bore the adults. There have been saccharine yet understated glorifications of outcasts (Napoleon Dynamite) and John Hughes rehashes (Clueless, Bring it On) – all painfully good-natured. Docs in Sight: Nature and Society by Williams Cole For many growing up in the ’70s and ’80s the nature documentary often meant soporific shows on birds and the African plain narrated by an upper-crust Englishman that you were forced to watch as “good for you” TV.