Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has a signature style that’s as instantly recognizable as Martin Scorsese’s or Wes Anderson’s: namely, showing his interviewees talking right into the ...
There’s a pivotal dramatic beat that occurs about 40 minutes into Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, out for rental and purchase on digital platforms today, that’s been less remarked upon in many of the ...
Errol Morris discusses how and why he uses the interrotron when interviewing subjects like Donald Rumsfeld in The Unknown Known. Then he lets us in on his secret love of directing commercials. Plus, ...
The film, like all of Morris’ recent works, was made using his patented interviewing tool, The Interrotron, a device that puts a video image of Morris where the camera lens should be. It makes ...
Roger Ross Williams hit a pretty sizable wall while filming his Oscar-nominated documentary Life, Animated: He couldn’t properly interview his main character, Owen Suskind. Suskind is autistic, which ...
Anifty feature of the Oscars ceremony this year was a short film showing about a hundred people, some famous and some not, talking about movies. The segment was directed by the filmmaker Errol Morris, ...