Tabloid

Director: Errol Morris
Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 2011 2:02 AM
Criticwire: B+

Synopsis: The director of "The Thin Blue Line" and the Academy Award®-winning "The Fog of War" tells the story of a former Miss Wyoming whose quest for one true love led her across the globe and onto the pages of tabloid newspapers. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]

Reviews

REVIEW | Weird, Familiar and Out of Control: Errol Morris's "Tabloid"

The enjoyably wacky scenario of Errol Morris's "Tabloid" is cookie-cutter material for the documentarian, but Morris wields his cookie cutter like a pro. Doing penance for the grim, sterile polemics of "Standard Operating Procedure," Morris bounces back with the sort of phenomenally surreal weird-bu...
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News

Box Office: Sarah Palin and Errol Morris Open Opposite "Potter;" "Paris" Becomes Woody's Top Grosser

While the final "Harry Potter" broke essentially every record in the book this weekend, an unlikely trio of Sarah Palin, Errol Morris and Wayne Wang proved the film's main indie opener alternatives. According to estimates, Palin doc "The Undefeated," Morris' "Tabloid" and Wang's "Snow Flower and the...
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Errol Morris' "Tabloid" Goes to Sundance Selects

Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Errol Morris' latest documentary "Tabloid," which was named as one of the top five undistributed films of 2010 in indieWIRE's Annual Critics Survey. The company plans to play the film at key festivals before a theatrical and VOD rollout this sum...
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Interviews

INTERVIEW | Errol Morris: "The Thin Blue Line" would not have saved Randall Adams today.

Errol Morris is in familiar form with his darkly comic non-fiction movie "Tabloid," which opens in limited release this week. The bizarre tale follows Joyce McKinney, the colorful Midwestern woman convicted of kidnapping her Mormon ex-lover in the U.K. in the late 1970s. McKinney became a tabloid fi...
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INTERVIEW | Errol Morris, Part II: "I don't want to get into a fight with Joyce McKinney."

In the first installment of indieWIRE's two-part interview with Errol Morris, the documentarian shared his thoughts on contemporary media and discussed his love for tabloid journalism. In this concluding segment, he talks specifically about the production of his new documentary, "Tabloid," and the c...
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