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Ondi Timoner's We Live In Public is bound to be this century's The Power Broker. While Robert Caro's extensive look at how bureaucrat Robert Moses single handedly restructured the population of Manhattan as a city planner, Timoner's 90-minute documentary about dot-com kid Josh Harris paints Harris as a venerable Nostradamus of the Internet age, a man who predicted the popularity of social networking and lived out its highs and lows years before Facebook was dreamed up at Harvard. The Power Broker became a bestseller, won Caro the Pulitzer Prize, and made a household name out of Moses; We Live In Public won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year, will no doubt win over legions of filmgoers, and may just place Harris in the limelight. more ›