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This startling documentary explores a part of America few even want to admit exists: a place designed as a paradise that has instead become an almost apocalyptic wasteland populated by people who have fallen out of society.

This feature debut by the Israeli photographer and installation artist Alma Har'el is an impressionistic, poetic portrait of down-and-outers living lives of desperation in a desert slum in inland California.

Bombay Beach is a small, barely populated desert town in rural California. It is situated on the edge of a former dust bowl that was flooded by the Colorado river in 1905, transforming it into the Salton Sea.

Jason Solomons talks to Alma Har'el, director of acclaimed documentary Bombay Beach, about the "lost" town on California's Salton Sea, and is joined by Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw to look over Carnage, Young Adult, and the best of the week's movies Jason Solomons meets Alma Har'el , director of award-winning documentary Bombay Beach , a ... (more)

To call Bombay Beach a documentary is only half the story; it's what adorns and nourishes that framework that makes it so beautiful and distinctive.

The San Andreas fault is the dividing line between the Pacific and North American plates.

You won't need to resort to streaming that new edgy documentary on your laptop anymore.

THIS DOCUMENTARY about life near a former tourist destination doesn't feel like non-fiction. Director Alma Har'el has found an amazing cast of characters living and surviving around the Salton Sea, a California destination in the desert in the 1950s, now desolate and depressed.

Here's the full list of new Netflix DVD releases this week : The Ides of March , Dolphin Tale , Killing Bono , Glee: The Concert , Courageous , Toast , Life 2.0 , Delocated , Regular Show , Abduction , Gantz II: Perfect Answer , Thomas & Friends: Curious Cargo , Bucky Larson: Born to be a Star , Dirty Girl , Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain , Mysteries ... (more)

This big, salty lake in the Imperial Valley is not only known as a recreation destination for fishermen, boaters and campers, itis a world-class haven for birdlife where more than 400 species of resident and migratory birds have been recorded.