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The Thin Blue Line (1988)
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"It’s already been called the most important civil rights film of the decade, but only time will tell if Milk has any real impact on the gay marriage issue or any other related civil rights matter. Obviously the film, which is set thirty years in the past, can be appropriated by the campaign to overturn Proposition 8, but if that campaign is successful, it will be difficult to prove with certainty Milk contributed to the end result. The Birth of a Nation may have inspired a reformation of the Ku Klux Klan and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner may have opened some minds to wider acceptance of interracial marriage (which had just recently been legalized). However, as Time magazine reported earlier this year, it’s quite rare for cinema to really change the world. A "
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"My second exposure (after Fog of War) to Errol Morris. Blue Line is like a perfect mathematical sequence in its story telling and editing. Being an older film than Fog, Blue Line does lack some of the energy of the latter film but I think that has to do with limited footage. Since I knew the eventual consequences of the film it added that very interesting twist to it as well. The real culprit of the crime is a genuinely creepy dude as are the supposed "witnesses" to it. It really is unbelievable that this happened to that poor guy.In the end justice did prevail. ***1/2 / ***** The Fog of War (2003) "
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"When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces a shortlist for one of its Oscar categories, many critics immediately focus on what titles are missing. Religulous was snubbed! Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired was punished for having a “secret” qualifying run! The Academy’s rules for eligibility must be amended! Such reactions were seen all over the web last week as awards season pundits looked at the narrowed-down list of 15 Feature Documentary hopefuls and criticized the Academy for its omissions. But the better response (which is the one SpoutBlog had) is to primarily address and celebrate the included films, not just for being contenders for the Feature Documentary Oscar but also for being showcased in general. The wonderful thing about shortlists is that they expand further the idea that it’s great just to be nominated. For feature documentaries, particularly those without a lot of "
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"I first heard about Mumia Abu-Jamal earlier this year. I was walking down the street in downtown Chicago where I work and someone handed me a flyer. It was all about Mumia, his predicament of supposedly being wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death, and that he was never given a fair trial. All of these issues are dealt with in the documentary Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Case for Reasonable Doubt? which appears to have originally aired on HBO in 1996. The film was recently re-released this year on DVD. I love watching stuff like this. The Thin Blue Line and Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills for instance. And the kind of case file examinations you see on Court TV or the Discover channel at 1 AM. Ambiguou "
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"It didn’t work out so well for Michael Moore, but who is to say other documentarians can’t succeed in fiction filmmaking? Recent notables to make the switch have included Nick Broomfield (whose unscripted yet dramatized Battle for Haditha opens at New York’s Film Forum next month), Barbara Kopple, Andrew Jarecki and Seth Gordon, who originally seemed to be crossing the line to remake his own The King of Kong as a narrative feature but has instead become attached to other fiction projects. The latest, though, is a bit of a shocker, even if he is famous for making a dramatization-heavy doc. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Errol Morris’ next project is a comedy, which he’s currently writing. Titled The End of Everything, the script is at least based on a true story and Morris says the film will be, “a new idea of how to blend drama with rea "
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