Errol Morris’ Team Spirit
Errol Morris’ has made a one minute TV commercial for ESPN focusing on sports fans supporting their teams from beyond the grave and it’s really rather brilliant. Also embedded below that is the eight minute ‘mini-documentary’ version that has just been released online. Filled with fascinating stories and a lot of pathos, Morris manages to … Read more
What’s Actually Wrong with the Weinsteins? Part Four: A Letter to Errol Morris
Following an interview with Errol Morris on NPR in 1988 Harvey Weinstein sent a letter to Morris detailing some of the issues he had with the interview. The letter is blunt and incredibly patronising. Morris is one of the most intelligent and eloquent interviewees I have heard and it is precisely the way in which he take … Read more
The Sight and Sound Top Ten Greatest Films of All Time
As chosen by 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors, the Sight and Sound ‘greatest film of all time’ poll results are in. The top ten list is as follows, 1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) 2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) 3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) 5. Sunrise: a Song of … Read more
More Fishing With John
The Criterion Collection have posted a short (but sweet) interview with John Lurie at ‘Criterion Current’ discussing his series, Fishing With John, and his art. Below are two highlights but I can recommend checking it all out. If you’ve never seen the series I can definitely recommend that too. Fishing With John easily makes it into my top ten … Read more