CELEBRIPOCALYPSE 2009 CONTINUES
Do you think the rash of celebrity deaths this year is an aberration, or is it just that there are more and more celebrities every year, and more celeb deaths is just a side effect of that that we’ll...
View ArticleHARVEY WEINSTEIN TORE ERROL MORRIS A NEW ONE
It’s well known among people who’d know such things that Tom Cruise’s character in Tropic Thunder, Les Grossman, was based on studio head Harvey Weinstein, who’s infamous for being a bit of a tyrant....
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Telluride: ‘Tabloid’ is simply a great shocker doc
Errol Morris Three quick roundups on other films that debuted at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival today, Errol Morris’ “Tabloid,” Fernando Trueba’s “Chico and Rita” and Bill Blympton’s “The Cow Who...
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Academy advances 15 doc features, ‘Senna,’‘Interrupters’ stunningly snubbed
Red Box Films The documentary branch of the Academy is beginning to get as crazy with it’s random snubs as the music branch, I have to say. Today’s announcement of 15 eligible contenders for the Best...
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Errol Morris’s JFK assassination short: The Umbrella Man
Today is the 48th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and while I think it’s pretty obvious that the mob did it, conspiracy theories still abound (I don’t really consider the mob a “conspiracy...
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Paul Rudd and Kristen Wiig star for Errol Morris in true-life cryogenic comedy
AP Photo/Chris Pizzello There are days when there is just a torrent of news you’re interested in, and other days where there’s nothing at all. It’s almost funny when one news story has about a dozen...
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Wow, 'Act of Killing' looks dark.
You might expect a Danish documentary about Indonesian war criminals executive produced by Werner Herzog and Errol Morris to be, you know, kind of dark. Let’s not mince words, you’d be right. Here’s...
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Venice lineup features new films from Gilliam, Franco, Morris, Miyazaki and...
Film4 Every year, the announcement of the first wave of Toronto Film Festival inclusions takes some of the guesswork out of the Venice Film Festival lineup announcement a few days later. And so it was...
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Venice preview, part two: ‘The Wind Rises,’‘Parkland,’‘The Unknown...
Open Road Films Continuing our preview of the 20 titles in the running for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, which kicks off next week. Today’s selection includes new films from Hayao...
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Picture: Werner Herzog and Errol Morris hugging under a rainbow
NBD, just the two most famous documentary directors in the world hugging underneath a rainbow. The two were photographed at the Telluride Film Festival, and the picture comes via Instagram, courtesy...
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Venice: American tricksters under scrutiny in ‘The Armstrong Lie’ and ‘The...
TWC-Radius VENICE – Venice festival scheduling is a business that can seem haphazard at best, and perverse at worst. Kim Ki-duk’s castration-and-incest bonanza “Moebius” straight after breakfast? Sure....
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Venice seeks to take action against Telluride’s sneak previews
AP Photo VENICE – For several years now, the Venice Film Festival has overlapped with not one but two rival North American fests. The “Toronto effect” has been felt since the two festivals started...
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Cinema Eye’s list of 25 most influential docs ranges from Michael Moore to...
MGM Home Entertainment When it comes to documentaries, the Academy has missed the boat on landmark films as often as they have with narrative features — and one need only look at Cinema Eye’s new list...
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Bryan Cranston keeps it bad with Errol Morris dark comedy ‘Holland, Michigan’
(CBR) Bryan Cranston has gone from a drug kingpin to running from a giant monster, and soon he”ll be playing a suspected serial killer in the next film from “The Thin Blue Line” director Errol Morris....
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Joshua Oppenheimer Discusses ‘The Look Of Silence,’ His Gut-Wrenching Sequel...
Drafthouse Films In The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer’s Oscar nominated documentary on the 1965 genocide in Indonesia, we meet the memorable Anwar Congo, the former gangster who boasts about the...
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Documentarian Errol Morris Weighs In On ‘Making A Murderer’ In New Interview
Netflix True-crime stories have always been hot, but the past few years have seen a flare-up in interest over sordid accounts of real-life scandal. The Netflix series Making A Murderer is the...
View ArticleThe Thrilling True Crime Doc That Led The Way For ‘Making A Murderer’ And...
The 2010s: The decade where America started to feel a lot less shame about diving into true crime and has fallen under the genre’s spell. True crime offerings are certainly nothing new (howdy O.J.!),...
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Errol Morris’‘The B-Side’ Captures The Master Of A Dying Art At Work
Neon Elsa Dorfman didn’t set out to take photos. As she tells it in The B-Side: Elsa Dofrman’s Portrait Photography, a new documentary by Errol Morris, she didn’t set out to do much at all. But she...
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Errol Morris’ Netflix Series ‘Wormwood’ Digs Into The Past To Unearth...
Netflix On November 28, 1953, Frank Olson plunged to his death from the 13th floor of New York’s Hotel Statler. This is beyond dispute. Virtually every other detail of the incident, however, raises...
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Errol Morris Tells Us Why He Titled His Steve Bannon Documentary ‘American...
Utopia Errol Morris had secured his place in the documentary hall of fame long before The Fog Of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. That film was rightly acclaimed for the way it...
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