I thought this might just end up being TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE all over again but it looks like Morris has found an intriguing story. And, as always, some amazing cinematography going on in there.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/standar...atingprocedure/

He looks to be utilizing Bay/Bruckheimer-style imagery as a surgical assist here.

Standard operating procedure for Morris since ... well, THE THIN BLUE LINE is where he started developing it, but every film (plus some eps of his sorely under-rated/over-looked FIRST PERSON) since then.

Is this the first 2.35:1 Morris film? And does anybody know if he used the Interrotron this time? All the interviews seemed to be framed similarly, instead of the multiplicity of angles used in FOG OF WAR and FIRST PERSON.

Yes, he does use the Interrotron again. And I do think it's 2.35 as well.

It's a fine film, one that puts a human face on five of the so-called "seven bad apples" at Abu Ghraib, including the notorious Lynndie England*, while in no way condoning their actions. I don't particularly like the at-times overbearing music (Danny Elfman) and the "shock" edits (dogs rearing up at us, etc.) but Morris admirers and anyone with an interest in what we're doing "over there" who can still bring themselves into the theater after an Iraq onslaught on our screens should be satisfied.

Opens 4/25. More here. And from Slant.

*The Barbara Steele of Abu Ghraib. I made that association while watching the film and it stuck.

The NY Times had a big piece of the film yesterday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/movies/2...nyt&oref=slogin

Wow, somebody needs to make an Errol Morris biopic starring Elliot Gould, like right now!

There's a long and interesting profile of Morris in a new/recent issue of GQ. Don't have the exact date because read it while waiting to get my hair cut. Trivia: Morris got Douglas Sirk to come to an early screening of Gates of Heaven but Sirk left halfway through saying it wasn't a movie but a slide show.