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Home » Errol Morris

Tag: Errol Morris

Posted inFilm

Movie Tuesday: Clowns and carnivals

by Ben Sachs October 8, 2019August 18, 2021

Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas

Posted inBlogs

Errol Morris’s Wormwood should have been a film, not a miniseries

by Ben Sachs December 22, 2017August 18, 2021

The acclaimed documentary filmmaker’s new Netflix show is an interesting, if overlong, history lesson

Posted inFilm

The 2017 Chicago International Film Festival, reviewed

by Chicago Reader October 12, 2017August 18, 2021

Watching the watchers at the Chicago International Film Festival

Posted inFilm

A local documentary maker stages his great-grandfather’s lost Colombian opera

by Ben Sachs April 19, 2017August 18, 2021

With The Way to Andina, Arlen Parsa records his journey from filmmaker to musical impresario.

Posted inBlogs

The Chicago Underground Film Festival highlights this week’s new movie reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones May 15, 2015August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Mockingjay—Part 1, Happy Valley, and the rest of what’s screening around town this week

by J.R. Jones November 28, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Are some documentaries above criticism?

by Ben Sachs November 13, 2014August 18, 2021

What we talk about when we talk about documentaries

Posted inBlogs

The inmates take over the asylum, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones October 24, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Sue being restored at the Black Hills Institute, early 1990s.
Posted inFilm

Dinosaur 13: Who owns the bones?

by J.R. Jones August 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Dinosaur 13 looks at the legal battle over Sue the T. rex.

Out in Oak Park, Steve James has cultivated an unassuming life—one that reflects his approach to filmmaking.
Posted inFilm

Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself

by Ben Sachs July 2, 2014August 18, 2021

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.

Posted inBlogs

The Patio’s last shows for a while, and the rest of this week’s movies

by Ben Sachs April 18, 2014August 18, 2021

A roundup of new and notable movies screening in Chicago between 4/18 and 4/24

Posted inBlogs

Best of 2011, number 5: Tabloid

by J.R. Jones December 16, 2011August 19, 2021

Our countdown of 2011’s best films continues with Errol Morris’s Tabloid, J.R. Jones’s number five film of the year.

Posted inBlogs

Oscarus interruptus

by J.R. Jones November 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Steve James’s acclaimed documentary The Interrupters is passed over for Oscar consideration.

Posted inBlogs

This Week’s Movie Action

by J.R. Jones July 14, 2011August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.

Posted inFilm

Movie Review: Tabloid

by J.R. Jones July 14, 2011August 19, 2021

How to kidnap a cute Mormon, fail to win his heart, but become a tabloid sensation

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