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Errol Morris’ Myopia

By Michael Atkinson

Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema — documentaries that do not merely document but probe into mysterious matters with the intention of uncovering their unknown truths. (The idea that visual “truth” remains a mystery is an integral part of his worldview.) This obsessive agenda worked like gangbusters when… return to article

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    oh i see what you did there. You watched a movie thinking it was supposed to be investigative journalism or something. Why don’t you try a newspaper instead?

    United Kingdom Posted by monkyhead on May 13, 2008 at 6:05 AM
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