Errol Morris on his film-making ideal: ‘I call it the shut-the-f**k-up school of just sitting and listening’
All the Oscar winner’s talents are on show in The Pigeon Tunnel, his gripping documentary about the great espionage writer John le Carré
Errol Morris
The Pigeon Tunnel: Seasoned interrogators John le Carré and Errol Morris lock horns, with fascinating results
‘I’ve lived through a world of endless betrayal,’ the great spy writer tells the celebrated documentarian in his final testament on camera
New Yorker Festival drops Steve Bannon after stars pull out
Bannon calls New Yorker editor David Remnick ‘gutless’ for rescinding invitation
Pope Francis: The pontiff who speaks fluent Human
Review: Wim Wenders’s lengthy interview is an eminently watchable study
From The Simpsons to Pink Floyd: Stephen Hawking in popular culture
The scientist’s fame led to sitcom appearances, biopics, and music about him
The strange death at the heart of CIA's shadowy MK-Ultra programme
Errol Morris’s pioneering documentary goes from intrigue to psychological consumption
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The Unknown Known
Errol Morris takes on Donald Rumsfeld, but the dogged documentarian never does corner the prickly right-wing secretary of defence
Telluride Film Festival: no cigar-chewing moguls allowed
Cannes it ain’t: the purist Colorado festival is the kind of place where you might spill Salman Rushdie’s cocktail, startle Michael Fassbender and Brad Pitt, or get your film praised by the screenwriter of ‘The Graduate’
Rumsfeld still falling down rabbit holes
Former secretary of defence is still not admitting his historic blunders
West of Memphis
Amy Berg’s portrait of American injustice is thrilling and terrifying in equal measure
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