Tabloid (opening in Cleveland July 29th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre)

[TABLOID opens in Cleveland Friday July 29th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]

Review by Pamela Zoslov

Documentary director Errol Morris’ groundbreaking third film, THE THIN BLUE LINE (1998) successfully argued that a man, Randall Adams, had been wrongfully convicted of murder by a corrupt justice system in Texas. With its hypnotic style, featuring dramatic re-enactments of events and a haunting score by Philip Glass, it ushered in a new era of documentary filmmaking, which had been so long wedded to the "direct cinema" style of Richard Leacock and the Maysles brothers. His 2003 THE FOG OF WAR: ELEVEN LIFE LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF ROBERT S. MCNAMARA presented a searing self-portrait of the Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense -- aided by Morris’ own invention, the “Interrotron,” a camera device that enables the documentary subject to speak simultaneously to the filmmaker and the camera lens. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (2008) examined torture by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison.