Errol Morris

The Act of Killing, 2013's First Masterpiece

Errol Morris Chat With Us About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case -- Before Joe McGinnis Gets the Last Word

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Film director Errol Morris is, as they say in Hollywood, bankable. He's made some of the best, most critically acclaimed documentaries of the last 25 years, including The Thin Blue Line, in which Morris proved that a convicted Texas cop killer was inn ... More >>

How Hollywood Movies Led to Genocide: The Act of Killing at the Toronto Film Festival

The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film Institute, and so it goes that the nonfiction knockout of TIFF thus far is The Act of Killing -- made with Danish support and directed by American Joshua Oppenheimer, executive produced by ... More >>

Burton's Bacharach

Backyards in Diamond Bar and Other Oddities

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Art With Dinosaurs to Relay Racing

This week, the stories behind the art are at least as interesting as the art itself, like the one about a small insurance company that started a big art collection, and the photographer who documented Diamond Bar. 5. Anonymous Letters Odeya Nini, an experimental composer whose music moves between ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Bad boys Sean Penn and Nicholas Ray

Tabloid Review

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

L.A. Film Fest Opens With Richard Linklater's Bernie: Like Christopher Guest Doing Errol Morris Doing Fargo

Jack Black: walking gay caricature?​ Ah, LAFF opening night. More or less settled in to its LA Live homebase in its second year there (I mean, I was able to pick up my pass, get into the screening and transition to the afterparty completely painlessly, which is some kind of victory), our city' ... More >>

The Power of the Powerless

Shoah: A Film About Death

Claude Lanzmann talks Spielberg, survival and the blurring of documentary and fiction

LAFF: the Best of the Fest

30 films to put on your to-do list

Philip Glass, Interviewed

The composer talks soundtracks, composition and Gandhi.

Movie Reviews: The Haunting in Connecticut, Three Monkeys, 12 Rounds

Also, The Education of Charlie Banks and Spinning Into Butter

Movie reviews: House, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Also, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Also, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Dear Zachary and more

Cannes Comebacks: Our Midfestival Report

Mike Tyson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Terence Davies and more

Standard Operating Procedure: Get Out of Jail Free

Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Look, The Perfect Holiday

Also Lagerfeld Confidential, Man in the Chair and The Protagonist

Lake of Fire: Pro-Debate

17 years in the making, Tony Kaye’s epic abortion doc gives a lot — but no answer

Movie Reviews: Berkeley, The Heartbreak Kid, Lust, Caution

Also this week's pick, Colma: The Musical

They Shoot, They Score

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the International Documentary Association polled its members (themselves filmmakers, industry executives, and academics) to determine the 25 best documentary films of all time. The results, announced publicly last week, span more than 50 years of movie histor ... More >>

Film reviews: Summercamp!, Self-Medicated, The Nines and More

Also Halloween, Death Sentence and this week's pick, Manda Bala

Countdown to Extinction

The 11th Hour says we’re all gonna die — but maybe not

In Need of a Good Thanking

Jennifer Hudson snubs American Idol and The Departed's screenwriter forgets to thank the original writers of his story

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Chico

Docs on the Rocks

At Oscar time, many of the year’s best documentaries don’t stand a chance

Tempest From a Teapot

For MoveOn’s Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, politics begins and ends at home

Big Oscar Cover-up!

Less controversy, more fabric

Best in Film: Scott Foundas

Hard Lines and Second Thoughts

Earl Morris’ Robert McNamara documentary is half in, half out of the fog

The Lie, the Whole Lie, and Nothing But the Lie

Errol Morris on the folly of certain distinctions

It Ain’t Cool

Howard Rodman’s Secret

A moral history of the world in our times

American Movie Classic