American documentary filmmaker and editor of films about artists, eccentrics and outsiders, among them The World Before Your Feet (2018), Lily Topples the World (2021) and Secret Mall Apartment (2024); he has also cut many of Criterion's trailers.
loved
If I had to pick a favorite, it’s his transcendent 1988 classic The Thin Blue Line, which recounts a murder case and then riffs and re-riffs on it like a Bach fugue.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Jeremy Workman, the entry for The Thin Blue Line.
American actor; co-wrote and starred in All the Real Girls (2003), played Dick Liddil in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) and Mark Brendanawicz in Parks and Recreation (2009 to 2010).
loved
With the Rashomon-like changing re-creations, the doomy circularity of Philip Glass’s score, the dead-wrong psychologizing of the Dallas detectives, and some of the greatest dialogue ever not written for film, The Thin Blue Line builds a sense of impending dread better than the clicking incline of a dilapidated roller coaster.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Paul Schneider, the entry for The Thin Blue Line.
American television writer and producer; created and ran Mad Men (2007 to 2015) and was a writer and executive producer on The Sopranos.
loved
With no narrator, a Philip Glass score, and dramatic reenactments, there’s a lot of media that tries to imitate The Thin Blue Line, either without knowing the source or without coming close to Errol Morris’s dramatic, funny, and chilling documentary, which redefined the genre.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Matthew Weiner, the entry for The Thin Blue Line.
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