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Harvey Weinstein to Errol Morris: you were boring

Posted Friday, January 29th, 2010

Errol Morris posted this hilarious letter from Harvey Weinstein on his website. You gotta love someone who says: “If you continue to be boring, I will hire an actor in New York to pretend that he’s Errol Morris. If you have any casting suggestions, I’d appreciate that.” RIP Miramax.

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Making films out of anger. . . and Herzog and Morris

Posted Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Jason Kohn gave a great speech when he won the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking at the Cinema Eye Honors last week. He spoke about making Manda Bala “out of anger” after watching Marshall Curry’s Streetfight play to an empty theater at a festival in Sao Paulo. “I was so god damn mad. . . because when these movies don’t get seen you feel like you’re fucking losing, you feel like somebody else is winning and that person is no

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Errol Morris is blogging!

Posted Friday, July 20th, 2007

I love Errol Morris. He makes films that make me gasp at the wonder, magic and horror of this planet we call home. And now he is blogging for The New York Times! His first piece Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire is about what pictures can tell us and, specifically, whether they can tell us the truth. He writes that “there is nothing so obvious that it’s obvious.” I like this quote because his films show us this, time and

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