How will we remember Donald H. Rumsfeld? As “a ruthless little bastard” (as President Nixon once described him), who became Nixon’s anti-poverty...
artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com | Posted 01.11.2012
In the Nov. 13 issue of the Book Review, the documentarian Errol Morris reviews Stephen King's new novel, "11/22/63." The book, like the film Morris i...
Posted 12.10.2011
Back in 1978, Herzog challenged a then-unknown Errol Morris to make his feature documentary, "Gates of Heaven," promising Morris that he would eat his...
Posted 11.20.2011
THINK: A Forum on the Future of Leadership, a major event during IBM's centennial year, brought together innovative leaders from across the globe to ...
Brad Balfour | Posted 10.29.2011
On the heels of Docuweeks' annual August kickoff, Current TV launched a five-part celebration, 50 Documentaries To See Before You Die, on August 2 hosted by energetic documentarian Morgan Spurlock.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 09.24.2011
There are plenty of things that make Tabloid newsworthy -- sex, Mormons, kidnapping, cloning -- but it was by total chance that Errol Morris' documentary opened in theaters just as the tabloid-worthy "British hacking scandal" was descending.
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Posted 09.21.2011
Holy squirrels it's hot! You can either use the heat as an excuse to drink mojitos and put out like a fire-truck, or you can channel all that steam a...
Kristin McCracken | Posted 09.18.2011
Documentary-filmmaking icon Errol Morris presents the lurid, sultry tale of a former Miss Wyoming who just may have tied up a Mormon and had her way with him in the 70s. Or did she? Either way, it's timely.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.16.2011
Tabloid tells the story of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen whose obsession with a man named Kirk Anderson led her to fly to England to bring him back. What happened after that depends on whether you believe Joyce or the British tabloids.
Alex Simon | Posted 09.14.2011
Tabloid tells the true story of Joyce McKinney, a former small town beauty queen with an IQ of 168 whose obsessive love for a Mormon missionary caused a tabloid scandal that took Britain by storm in late 1977 and '78.
Posted 09.12.2011
By Sean P. Means Salt Lake Tribune (RNS) Not even an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker like Errol Morris is immune from the allure of a salaciou...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
My last full day at the Toronto International Film Festival was a day of hits and misses.
AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 05.25.2011
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Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011
Situated among the countless arts organizations in New York City are enclaves of passionate culture hounds who gather under the auspices of psychoanalytic training institutes.
John Hood | Posted 05.25.2011
There may be no better interviewer working today than Fresh Air host Terry Gross.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011
In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011
Most of The Fog of War "lessons" reflect the powerful and painful humility of a man who knows he has made grave mistakes with graver consequences.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The death of Robert McNamara at the age of 93 has re-ignited a debate about the legacy of the man and the event with which he is most often associated...
Brad Schreiber | Posted 05.25.2011
Morris said, "very few people today know about the firebombing and hardly anybody knows about Robert McNamara's role in the firebombing".
Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011
To look at the escalating popularity of the documentary film is to enter an interesting, complicated, and collectively psychoanalytic exploration of the role of desire and dreams in a time of mass confusion.
Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 05.25.2011
When it comes down to it, we're being sold shitty beer really well, and there's something to be said for appreciating a 15-30 second spot that doesn't demean your capacity as a functioning adult.
Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011
Parker, Brecht and Trumbo may have passed on, but anti-war and anti-poverty spirit continue in the genre of the documentary as practiced by the soothsayer Michael Moore.
Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011
2008, the year of death, decay and the wisdom of the beautiful loser. The year movie stars examined their own mortality and fading beauty via their on-screen persona.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
When I assembled my 10-best films of the year, I did so with an eye on mainstream films. The year was so strong in that regard that it was still diffi...
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011
The self-funded Passion of the Christ brought in $611 million worldwide and counting, in part thanks to Christian groups such as Campus Crusade and Focus on the Family.
Vulture | Posted 03.14.2012