Chris Smith

The Yes Men movie trailer - Directed by Dan Ollman. Theatrical Release Date: 9/24/2004 Genre: Documentary Rating: R

In an imaginary land where all sound is outlawed, a little girl is given a magical music box by a mysterious old woman. When the woman is captured by the 'Noise Police', it's up to the little girl to save her.

Antwone Fisher movie trailer - starring Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Salli Richardson, Joy Bryant, Joe Bryant, Earl Billings. Directed by Denzel Washington. Genre: Drama Rating: PG-13

Our intrepid defender of the working man, Michael Moore, documents his 1996 "Downsize This!" book tour across the USA. Shot on-the-cheap with a video camera trying to get past corporate security guards to interview the millionaire CEOs.

Synopsis: The hilarious real-life adventures of a group of anti-corporate activists who travel the globe impersonating members of the World Trade Organization. You'll never forget their solution to erase hunger! USA - 2004 - R

Antwone Fisher movie trailer - starring Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Salli Richardson, Joy Bryant, Joe Bryant, Earl Billings. Directed by Denzel Washington. Genre: Drama Rating: PG-13

Former police officer Michael Ruppert predicts the end of civilization as we know it.

In an imaginary land where all sound is outlawed, a little girl is given a magical music box by a mysterious old woman. When the woman is captured by the 'Noise Police', it's up to the little girl to save her.

Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best. But is anyone prepared for the worst? Michael Ruppert is a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter From the Wilderness at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Smith has always had a feeling for outsiders in films like American Movie and American Job. In Collapse, Smith stylistically departs from his past films by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. Sitting in a room that looks like a bunker, Ruppert recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out the crises he sees ahead. He draws upon the same news reports and data available to any Internet user, but he applies a unique interpretation. He is especially passionate over the issue of peak oil, the concern raised by scientists since the 1970s that the world will eventually run out of fossil fuel. While other experts debate this issue in measured tones, Ruppert doesn t hold back at sounding an alarm. He portrays a future that resembles apocalyptic science fiction. Listening to his rapid flow of opinions, the viewer is likely to question some of the rhetoric as paranoid or deluded; and to sway back and forth on what to make of the extremism. Smith lets viewers form their own judgments.

The trailer for IFC's Home Movie which became available on IFC On Demand on December 30, 2008. Documents one family's descent into darkness, using a compilation of found home-made footage. In the remote woods of upstate New York, the Poe Family lives a Norman Rockwell life. Perfect house. Perfect marriage. If only the children stopped stapling frogs to trees. Something is very wrong with ten-year old twins, Jack and Emily Poe. And, to stop them, their parents must enter the nightmare of their minds. The only question is: who will survive the night?

A comedic documentary which follows The Yes Men, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world.

Trailer for the documentary Collapse. Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, Smith departs stylistically from his past documentaries by interviewing his subject Michael Ruppert in a format that recalls the work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. A character study of the apocalyptic imagination, Collapse is a portrait of a man who believes with total conviction that industrial civilization is on the verge of collapse.