Several blurbs of note to report in the documentary world this late Thursday:
***Anthony Kaufman has the news that Errol Morris is blogging for the New York Times. Kaufman interprets Morris' first entry--a long consideration of photography, truth, interpretation and meaning--as "a sneak peak into what I expect are the theoretical underpinnings" of Morris' upcoming Abu Ghraib doc, Standard Operating Procedure.
***This is not a TV blog, so we won't waste time making obscene hand gestures about most of the Emmy nominations. However, it's worth noting that Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina doc When the Levees Broke picked up several nods, as did two recent festival hits: Rory Kennedy's Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, and Stanley Nelson's Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People's Temple. A.J. Schnack has further details.
***John Anderson has a review of Your Mommy Kills Animals, a doc on the animal protection debate which begins a one-week Oscar qualifying run today. Calling it "a miraculously evenhanded treatment of a snarlingly divisive debate," Anderson also notes that the film also makes "it pretty clear that blinkered self-righteousness and unwavering belief in one's cause don't much differ, whether you're a member of the Animal Liberation Front or Al Qaeda. The corollary question is whether anything less than the most militant action will move corporations away from committing cruelty to animals."
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