The Story Behind The Thin Blue Line
I was just catching up on the May issue of GQ, which is a good’un. In particular, there’s a profile of documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, who many may know as the director of 1988’s The Thin Blue Line, the movie that exonerated Randall Adams of the murder of a police officer in Dallas in 1976. The magazine profile (timehook: Morris’ Standard Operating Procedure) is full of goodies, or, at least, goodies that the movie had that I forgot. Read the whole thing. (Or don’t. It’s up to you.)
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Gee, and I thought you were going to discuss the BBC TV series of the same title with Rowan Atkinson of “Mr. Bean” fame.
Great linkage, McGill. The 17-pages of copy are kind of a PITA to read on their site, made worse since they don’t permit wholesale printing. Unlike every other decent website on the planet.
That said, the interview/article is fascinating and worth the PITA to click through.
I picked up a copy of the book “Adams vs State of Texas” and loved every page. If you havent read it, do it. Now. Please.
This film was referenced recently in the article “The Need and Importance of the Documentary” by Bart Weiss (Video Association of Dallas) at CinemaFest.org in conjunction with the USA Film Festival. What could be a more pointed example.