Lou Dawson at backcountry skiing blog WildSnow.com is anxiously awaiting the arrival of Ski the 14ers by Ben Galland, a film that he anticipates will honor a “powerful and enriching form of alpinism that can produce immense value for ski mountaineers.” To illuminate the skiing-the-14ers concept for “those of you who’ve been living on Jupiter,” Lou offers this synopsis:

“This movie covers the attempt by Chris Davenport to ski all 54 Colorado 14,000 foot peaks in one winter season. Chris didn’t quite make his goal, but along the way he created an emotional, highly experience, and his numbers goal has faded in the light of what appears to be one of the most spirited and publicly accessible events in modern ski alpinism.”

I Am A Pretentious Hack is Juniper Pearl’s wonderfully named blog that displays a great sense of humor, a lot of surprising perspectives and – the title notwithstanding – very little pretension. Among her current recs (and many other people’s): Wordplay, the high-profile documentation about puzzle master Will Shorts and the strange world of crossword puzzles. “I enjoyed it quite a bit,” Juniper pear says, “being nerdy and enthralled with others who are nerdy. If you like crossword puzzles, I recommend it. If you don’t, odds are it’ll bore you. I can’t see the point in saying any more about it than that…”

Illuminating Rainbow and other triathlete bloggers are anxiously awaiting the arrival of What It Takes, a documentary profiling four Ironman triathletes (Peter Reid, Heather Fuhr, Lori Bowden, and Luke Bell). Going “behind the scenes in the quest for the 2005 world championship in Kona, Hawaii,” the film is slated to hit festivals and selected theaters in the coming months, according to Inside Triathlon magazine. Peep the trailer here.

Run to Win reviews Running on the Sun, a documentary about the Badwater ultramaraton (a race that “traverses 135 miles of desert, climbing from a few hundred feet below sea level to the top of Mount Whitney” - yikes). Run to Win gives two-thumbs-up to the doc, which follows a quarter of the runners through Badwater so that “you get to see people passing out and hallucinating on the side of the road, or just throwing up now and again as they go along.” Which probably won’t inspire to go out and run Badwater yourself, but helps make Running in the Sun - in Run to Win’s words - “endlessly fascinating to follow along.”

Getcha Grub On, the eclectic blog on the urban organic kitchen, gardening, eating, cooking, and ranting, recommends another equally fascinating project: Two Angry Moms, a “documentary work-in-progress that asks the question: What happens when two “fed-up” moms try to change the school lunch program?” Armed with a movie camera, Amy and Susan will visit school cafeterias to see what’s on the menu and what the kids are eating. They’ll speak to food service vendors, teachers, health experts, politicians and parents as well as officials from the USDA and the FDA. They’ll analyze the contents of various school lunches, compare costs and nutrition with a whole foods meal, and offer examples and workable alternatives. They’ll focus on exactly what has gone wrong with our School Lunch Program and demonstrate strategies for overcoming roadblocks and getting real food into school cafeterias. And if you help support them, they’ll show the finished film in your district. There’s that ThisNext concept again: living your passion.

Marathoners will soon be having a movie moment: Mark at A Passion for Running points us to the trailer for Land of the Gods, a feature-length doc on the history and evolution of the marathon. Starring the 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Deena Kastor, the film follows six runners as they train for and run the 2005 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon.

A number of the green living blogs have mentioned this feature-length film in passing; the best description of it is on C. Scott Miller’s hugely informative Bioconversion Blog. Who Killed the Electric Car, released by Sony Pictures directly to theatres just like Fahrenheit 9/11 and An Inconvenient Truth, presents a “cradle to grave history of a marvelous machine that was too good for Detroit to allow to spawn imitators. It was born out of an idealistic California environmental mandate, killed by the successful appeal by an auto industry frantic to overturn the mandate, and summarily executed by the manufacturer.”

Great film to see, great blog to visit.