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NYC Psychoanalytic Society Hosts Artist Jane McAdam Freud: The Edge of Analysis, Art and Politics

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Conceptual Art, American Academy of Arts & Letters, Sigmund Freud, Katherine McAdam, Psychoanalysis, Barack Obama, Art, Jane McAdam Freud, Medallic Art, Anna Freud, Souhad Rafey Curator & Artist, Errol Morris, Heddy Honigmann, Lucian Freud, The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of NYCC, Picasso, British Artists, New York City Cultural Institutions, Guernica, Politics and Art, Mental Health, Joan Erdheim, Alan Grossman, New York News
Penelope Andrew

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.

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Interviewing Terry Gross

John Hood | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Npr, Ira Glass, Errol Morris, Chuck Klosterman, John Hood, Fresh Air, Terry Gross, Media News
John Hood

There may be no better interviewer working today than Fresh Air host Terry Gross.

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ReThinking Standard Operating Procedure: Yes, Virginia, We Really Do Torture

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cenk Uygur, Movie Review, Standard Operating Procedure, George W. Bush, Rethink Reviews, Documentaries, John Yoo, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Abu Ghraib, The Young Turks, Movie Reviews, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, Lynndie England, Charles Graner, Film Critic, Errol Morris, Documentary, Iraq, Torture, Sabrina Harman, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

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.

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Rethinking the Fog of War: McNamara, the Movie, the Monster

Jonathan Kim | Posted 08.08.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Review, The Fog of War, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam War, Bob Herbert, Errol Morris, Rethink Reviews, World War II, Robert McNamara, Jonathan Kim, Film, Cold War, Movie Critic, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

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.

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Sam Stein

Errol Morris, McNamara Documentarian: "There Are No Simple Answers"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert McNamara, Errol Morris, Mcnamara Vietnam, Mcnamara, Fog of War, Vietnam Fog of War, Morris Mcnamara, Politics News

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...

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Errol Morris and the Passing of Robert McNamara

Brad Schreiber | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Academy Awards, Robert S. McNamara, Documentaries, Viet Nam, The Fog of War, Errol-Morris, Politics News
Brad Schreiber

Morris said, "very few people today know about the firebombing and hardly anybody knows about Robert McNamara's role in the firebombing".

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How Recent Documentary Films May Have Paved the Way to Embrace the Figure of Barack Obama

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dalton Trumbo, Fta, Ellen Spiro, Theater of War, Zana Briski, Trauma, War, Francine Parker, Susan Sontag, Phil Donahue, Jane Fonda, Fog of War, Spike Lee, Documentaries, Bertolt Brecht, Invasion of Iraq, Body of War, Politics, Ross Kauffman, Michael Moore Fahrenheit 9/11, Tomas Young, Vietnam War, Lila Lipscomb, Errol Morris, The Congressional Black Caucus, Heddy Honigmann, John Walter, Presidential Elections, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

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.

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"America, Is That Really You?"

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 04.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Miller High Life, Errol Morris, Marketing, Ad Campaign, Advertising, Beer, TV Advertising, Entertainment News
Andrew Sargus Klein

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.

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Fonda, Sutherland, Streep Echo Trumbo & Brecht: FTA (1972) and Theater of War (2008)

Penelope Andrew | Posted 03.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dalton Trumbo, Anti-War Films, Film, John W. Walter, Francine Parker, Jane Fonda, Documentary Films, Mother Courage and Her Children, Meryl Streep, Vietnam War, Donald Sutherland, Tony Kushner, Errol Morris, Michael Moore, Holly Near, Anti-War Movements, Johnny Got His Gun, Bertolt Brecht, Entertainment News
Penelope Andrew

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.

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Kim Morgan's Top Ten Movies Of 2008

Kim Morgan | Posted 01.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, The Dark Knight, The Wrestler, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Pineapple Express, Let the Right One In, Mickey Rourke, Charlie Kaufman, The Foot Fist Way, Heath Ledger, James Franco, Slumdog Millionaire, Errol Morris, Sarah Silverman, Entertainment News
Kim Morgan

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.

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My alternative Top 10

Marshall Fine | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Standard Operating Procedure, CSNY: Deja Vu, Phil Donahue, Alex Gibney, Errol Morris, I've Loved You So Long, Neil Young, Body of War, Movies, Taxi to the Dark Side, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

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...

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Film No Evil

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 12.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jody Williams Nobel, James Woolsey, Bella, Facing the Giants, United Nations, UN Me, Evangelicals, Nobel Peace Prize, Jody Williams, Mary Cheney, Gary Bauer, Doug Abel, Taxi to the Dark Side, U.N. Me, Al Gore an Inconvenient Truth, Passion of the Christ, Fireproof, Farenheit 911, Left Behind, Bob Richman, Ami Horowitz, Nobel Peace Prize Winners, Mel Gibson, Kirk Cameron, Bowling for Columbine, U.N., Errol Morris, Michael Moore, End of Days, Entertainment News
Andrea Chalupa

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.

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New Errol Morris Ad Campaign Features Republicans For Obama

Huffington Post | Staff | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: People in the Middle for Obama, Video, Independents for Obama, Republicans for Obama, Middle for Obama, Errol Morris, Conservatives for Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News

Academy Award winning documentarian Errol Morris has released a new ad campaign featuring republicans and independents who are voting for Obama. Fro...

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Crawford: Filmmaker David Modigliani on Bush-Era Political Stagecraft (Watch the Movie in Full Here!)

Brad Listi | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Karl Rove, David Modigliani, Crawford Texas, Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow, George W. Bush, Bush-Cheney, Bob Dylan, Crawford, Movies, D.A. Pennebaker, Cindy Sheehan, Dick Cheney, Prairie Chapel, Crawford Movie, Laura Bush, Brad Listi, Misti Tuberville, Condoleezza Rice, Crawford Peace House, Tom Warlick, Vladimir Putin, Errol Morris, Norma Nelson-Crow, Sxsw, Prairie Chapel Road, Home News
Brad Listi

A hit on the festival circuit, Modigliani's film offers a poignant view of the small Texas town that was transformed overnight when George W. Bush bought his 1,500-acre ranch on Prairie Chapel Road back in 1999.

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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standard Operating Procedure, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, CIA Torture, Abu Ghraib Photos, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration Torture, Abu Ghraib Torture, Errol Morris, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Errol Morris Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News
Errol Morris

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

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Trailer: Standard Operating Procedure

Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Media News

Watch a trailer for the new Errol Morris film "Standard Operating Procedure." ...

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Watch The Trailer For "Standard Operating Procedure"

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris, Sony, Politics News

Watch the trailer for "Standard Operating Procedure," the film by Errol Morris. ...

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From the Berlinale: Standard Operating Procedure

Karin Badt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Berlin Film Festival, Standard Operating Procedure Review, Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure, Berlinale, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Documentary, Errol Morris Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Karin Badt

Just saw Errol Morris' Abu Ghraib documentary and it blew me away: the focussed concentration on the soldiers narrating those infamous pictures, each soldier framed alone on a wide-screen, calm and expressive.

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