{"id":13452,"date":"2011-11-10T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13452"},"modified":"2011-11-10T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:29:30","slug":"errol-morris-at-bafta-adam-curtis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/10\/errol-morris-at-bafta-adam-curtis\/","title":{"rendered":"Errol Morris at BAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Errol-Morris-at-BAFTA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13453\" title=\"Errol Morris at BAFTA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Errol-Morris-at-BAFTA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Famed documentarian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Errol_Morris\">Errol Morris<\/a> was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/\">BAFTA<\/a> this week where he gave the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bafta.org\/whats-on\/2011-bafta-david-lean-lecture-delivered-by-errol-morris,2125,BA.html\">David Lean lecture<\/a> and a Q&amp;A with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Curtis\">Adam Curtis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has been in London this week promoting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1704619\/\">Tabloid<\/a>, his new film about a bizarre scandal involving a beauty queen and a mormon, and the event was live streamed over the web on BAFTA Guru.<\/p>\n<p>To <a href=\"http:\/\/guru.bafta.org\/errol-morris-annual-film-lecture\">watch the full 30 minute speech head on over to the BAFTA site<\/a>, but here is a clip:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCtIVS9_6ZA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards he engaged in an interesting Q&amp;A session with fellow director Adam Curtis which can be seen here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nShqyucZupo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I first saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/19\/lff-2010-tabloid-errol-morris\/\">Tabloid at the London Film Festival last year<\/a> and it is going to be a strong contender for the inaugural BAFTA documentary award.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the film hit the headlines this week when Joyce McKinney (the main subject) announced she was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2011\/nov\/08\/joyce-mckinney-sues-errol-morris-tabloid?newsfeed=true\">suing Morris for her portrayal in the film<\/a>, which has echoes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Randall_Dale_Adams\">Randall Adams<\/a> suing Morris, despite the fact that (or maybe because?) his 1988 film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(documentary)\">The Thin Blue Line<\/a> got him off death row.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there is a follow up film to be made?<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/10\/19\/lff-2010-tabloid-errol-morris\/\">Tabloid review from LFF 2010<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/04\/bafta-guru-audio-video-interviews\/\">BAFTA Guru<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/adamcurtis\/\">Adam Curtis&#8217; essential BBC blog which regularly culls interesting material from the archives<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Errol_Morris\">More on Errol Morris at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed documentarian Errol Morris was at BAFTA this week where he gave the annual David Lean lecture and a Q&#038;A with Adam Curtis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,34,16],"tags":[1309,56,60,1605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}