David Fear, the film editor of Time Out New York, serves up his TIFF doc picks:

La Danse: Le Ballet de l'Opera de Paris
A new Frederick Wiseman movie is always a big deal. Hands down, he's my favorite fly-on-the-wall documentarian and one of the most consistently engaging verite filmmakers out there (to wit: This is a man who's made models at work, middle managers of big-name department stores, long city council meetings AND Aspen, Colorado seem equally compelling). I saw Ballet years ago during one of numerous stints in college; if this look at the the Paris Opera Dance troupe is half as good, then I'm clearing off a space on my year-end list now.

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I've been saying that we're neck-deep into a social apocalypse for years; finally, someone who is vastly smarter than me will back this notion up. The subject--author, political muckraker and professional chicken-little Michael Ruppert--is of personal interest, and I've always dug and Chris "American Movie" Smith's work even when the irony level is near-toxic. I'm also banking on footage of Dick Cheney coming off like the Prince of Darkness. You'd think I'd have vented all my anger out at people who raped our country for eight years, and yet...

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
See above (substitute Nixon's name for Cheney.)

The Topp Twins (pictured)
Yes! Sapphic C&W singers! From New Zealand! What gods did I please?

The Neil Young Trunk Show
Demme + Young worked out fairly well last time, so...

Capitalism: A Love Story
Somebody is going to take the folks who bilked the American public out of trillion of dollars and got away with it? Good, I'm glad somebody is standing up for us little guys. I've heard good things about this Michael Moore kid. He should have a bright future ahead of him.