In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Errol Morris has released to the New York Times another Op-Doc, called "November 22, 1963," about the photographic evidence that exists of that fateful event. After the great success his 2011 Op-Doc "The Umbrella Man," which investigated a figure in the famed Zapruder footage whose identity is unknown (and whose use of an umbrella on a sunny day is incredibly suspicious), Morris interviews again Josiah "Tink" Thompson, a former philosophy professor who became wrapped up in spending time with the evidence from the assassination. In the new Op-Doc, Thompson explains how the photos and film footage were collected, and how they were used to look for evidence throughout history, culminating in an examination of the frame of the Zapruder footage that has so enraptured him all these fifty years, frame #313. Check out the doc, "November 22, 1963" at the New York Times website here,...
- 11/21/2013
- by Bryce J. Renninger
- Indiewire
Throughout the career of documentarian Errol Morris, the writer/director has fiercely investigated the multiple truths to every event, whether in his own work or the support for others, as with Joshua Oppenheimer's “The Act of Killing.” Two years ago, he released a short film, through the New York Times, “The Umbrella Man,” on the Kennedy assassination, focusing on a mysterious person on the scene, and true to Morris' credos, another director has set about with his own interpretation. In Morris' doc, he used a snippet of a conversation with author Josiah “Tink” Thompson, who wrote a book on the assassination and together they lightheartedly touch on a theory for the Umbrella Man's presence—the man in fact shot Kennedy through a rigged umbrella-turned-weapon. Now, “Repo Man” director Alex Cox has taken on the pair's claims (via Boing Boing) in a brief video reaction, elaborating on that umbrella weapon...
- 7/16/2013
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Controversy has never scared off Errol Morris, and in fact, it has powered some of his best work. From the true crime tale "The Thin Blue Line," powerful portraits of war in "The Fog of War" and "Standard Operating Procedure," and more recently the JFK assassination (in the astounding short "The Umbrella Man"; watch it here) he has faced some tough material head on with tremendous insight. And his next effort promises nothing less.
Vulture reports that Morris and his Interrotron sat down last month with Donald Rumsfeld for a series of interviews covering his entire career. If somehow you have no idea who this guy this (and really, you should), he has impacted American politics in huge and very controversial ways. Most know him as the Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush who came up with the framework for "enhanced interrogation techniques." Or as the guy who eluded...
Vulture reports that Morris and his Interrotron sat down last month with Donald Rumsfeld for a series of interviews covering his entire career. If somehow you have no idea who this guy this (and really, you should), he has impacted American politics in huge and very controversial ways. Most know him as the Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush who came up with the framework for "enhanced interrogation techniques." Or as the guy who eluded...
- 3/14/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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