Posts tagged as Errol Morris
What I Saw At The Toronto International Film Festival
1. At the Toronto International Film Festival the other night, the woman directly in front of me in the rush line said she was an aspiring filmmaker. She was wearing a striped button up shirt, pleated khakis, and a blue nylon shell. She carried a thermos. If I had to guess her age, I would probably end up somewhere around 65. She wanted a free ticket, she told the volunteer wrangler. To anything. The wrangler, who was at the lower end of middle-age and clearly relished the authority she'd been temporarily granted, fiddled constantly with her headset to signal her importance as she listened to this. READ MORE
Our Legendary Fake History
Are you following this Errol Morris investigation into the photography of Walker Evans and pals? A new installment, part 3 of 7, went up last night and it is BONKERS. Basically it is about alterations-suspected or proven or even wildly obvious, in retrospect-in 1930s documentary work of the FSA photographers (Evans, Dorothea Lange, et al). Essentially, much of what we view now as documentary-and what we see in our minds as the visuals of recent American history-was actually pretty close to propaganda. READ MORE
Errol Morris Names His Top Five Favorite Films
Herein, Errol Morris names his favorite films-and you literally cannot predict what his number one film is. You CANNOT, I SAY.
Errol Morris On Frauds And Fakes
Errol Morris begins a new daily seven-part essay at the Times: "Why do people believe in imaginary returns, frauds and fakes?"
