In what's intended to be an ingenious twist on the documentary form, Gary Burns and Jim Brown's Radiant City splits its time between real-life experts pontificating on exurban sprawl, and the ...

"There's no such thing as evil, son. There's just people doing good and bad to each other." The Orchard has debuted a trailer for indie drama In the Radiant City, which premiered at the Toronto Film ...

The creation of the idealistic suburbs has gone from an affordable hope to the horrors of urban sprawl in just a few generations. With a looming energy crisis nipping at the heels of one of the worst ...

Not quite up to Errol Morris standards, but really, really good documentary. To support our nonprofit environmental journalism, please consider disabling your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. Here's ...

Gary Burns' latest vision of dystopia is an edgy look at exurbia, this time with a documaker's eye. Helmer is at his slyest in "Radiant City," which views North American culture as an inevitable ...

Taking its title from Le Corbusier's 1935 manifesto on the ideal factory-inspired urban design, the semi-documentary Radiant City juggles conventional wisdom and deception in what amounts to an ...

The suburbs suck our souls, offer false illusions of community and are unsustainable on several levels. Is this news to anyone anymore? And yet many of us choose to live in these monocultures without ...

With Halloween over, the Christmas movies are beginning to roll in. Check out the new films releasing in theaters this weekend to decide what you want to see. Jennifer Lopez, who dated Sean "Diddy" ...

With In the Radiant City, I wrote in my Toronto preview, Louisville, KY native Rachel Lambert has brought to Toronto a debut film that seems like it might be the kind of laconic, unexpectedly ...