Features
Friday, January 13 2012
The Best Indie / International Films of 2011
The year's best independent and international films are highlighted by a duo from iconic director Werner Herzog, a staggeringly brilliant frontier-western and a score of top-notch documentaries that illustrate how filmmaking continues to reach new highs.
Thursday, April 28 2011
On Truth and Lies and the Full Frame Film Festival 2011
What is the connection between cloned puppies and a 32-year-old sex in chains story? This and other questions raised at this year’s Full Frame Film Festival.
Friday, January 16 2009
Best Complexities in 2008
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.
Columns
Friday, January 27 2012
The Tabloidization of Errol Morris
By the end of this film, the line dividing Tabloid from “the tabloids” thins to the point of imperceptibility.
Reviews
Monday, November 28 2011
'Tabloid': Obsessive as Ever and Obsessive About Everything
Tabloid isn't Errol Morris' greatest film, but it's awfully good and worth repeated viewings.
Monday, September 26 2011
'Believing is Seeing': Philosophic Waxing About Film and Photography from an Erudite Gumshoe
Moral ambiguity is his metier; enlightened doubtfulness is his default mode.
Friday, July 15 2011
'Tabloid': You Have to Deal with People
On first look, Errol Morris' documentary appears to tell McKinney's story, drawing from the story reported by British tabloids in 1977. But it's also about truth and storytelling more broadly, the ways stories escape their tellers.
Thursday, November 20 2008
Standard operating Procedure
As with all his work, Morris approaches his subjects like a hawk, circling his prey, darting in here and there, tearing off a piece.
Friday, May 2 2008
Standard Operating Procedure
Errol Morris' new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure, remembers the pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release.
Blogs
Thursday, June 26 2008
There's Nothing 'Standard' About this Documentary
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…
News
Thursday, June 19 2008
Meet the people behind Abu Ghraib photos
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…
Thursday, May 22 2008
America's (possibly) greatest documentary filmmaker focuses on Abu Ghraib
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…
