2011 · documentary
Tabloid
Directed by Errol Morris1h 27m2011
A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
Our read: Tabloid (2011) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle documentary, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
- twisty
Watching Tabloid tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Tabloid feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want an Errol Morris tabloid rabbit hole stranger than any fiction.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if kidnapping, sex scandal, and manic self-justification will sour the room.
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Discussion
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