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Best Complexities in 2008

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Jan.09] :. The most remarkable films of 2008 were small, smart, and complicated. While they're surely worth seeking out for their own pleasures, they also represent the sort of movies that will find theatrical releases even harder to manage in the shrinking economy.

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Standard operating Procedure

by Stuart Henderson

[20.Nov.08] :. As with all his work, Morris approaches his subjects like a hawk, circling his prey, darting in here and there, tearing off a piece.

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There’s Nothing ‘Standard’ About this Documentary

by Bill Gibron

[26.Jun.08] :. As the old saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of the horrifying images witnessed by the world as part of the investigation of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, very little of said...

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Meet the people behind Abu Ghraib photos

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Jun.08] :. NEW YORK - The old saying claims a picture is worth a thousand words. But in his new documentary “Standard Operating Procedure,” Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris argues that a...

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America’s (possibly) greatest documentary filmmaker focuses on Abu Ghraib

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[22.May.08] :. Errol Morris is considered by many to be America’s greatest documentary filmmaker. He won an Oscar for “The Fog of War” (2003), his portrait of former Defense Secretary Robert...

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Standard Operating Procedure

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.May.08] :. Errol Morris' new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure, remembers the pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release.

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