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- If it were a two-hour film, Wormwood might be a brilliant, uneasy dive into dark CIA deeds, and their long-term ramifications for family members whose loved ones were sacrificed for the nebulous cause of “national security.” Running twice that long, it loses all energy and dramatic propulsion.
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Dec 18, 2017 · If it were a two-hour film, Wormwood might be a brilliant, uneasy dive into dark CIA deeds, and their long-term ramifications for family members whose loved ones were sacrificed for the...
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Dec 15, 2017 · The most daring element of “Wormwood” really comes in the final installment in which Morris gets to the key question rarely asked in true crime exposes—then what? If Eric Olson proves that his father was a part of some grand government conspiracy or possibly even murdered by them, what happens then?
Dec 14, 2017 · “Wormwood,” Errol Morris’s new movie — a hybrid of documentary and fictional techniques drawn from blurred passages in the historical record — circles around a single painful, mysterious fact.
- Errol Morris
- The Colby Documents as Drama
- The Personal Collage
- A Cinematic Interview
- Awards and Traditional Documentaries
In 1975, the Rockefeller Commission, investigating the CIA, revealed that Frank Olsen had been given LSD, which was supposedly the explanation for his jumping out the window. Eric Olson and his family were brought to Washington to meet President Ford and shown what was known as the Colby Documents – hundreds of pages of first-person accounts, summa...
Much of “Wormwood” is driven by Eric, who is still emotionally invested and defined by events that happened when he was a small child. While the 71-year-old is a compelling interview subject, the feeling of the personal is a brush Morris also wanted to use in cinematically painting the story that exhumes, literally, the corpse of Frank. “One proof ...
In making the film, Morris was obviously compelled by Eric and his story. He wanted to find a way to shoot and edit his interviews that cinematically drew the audience into Eric’s narration, just as Morris was as he listened to him during tens of hours of interviews. “Cinematic language comes out of the content and I think that’s also true with sho...
“Probably it’s not the politically correct thing to say — that a lot of documentaries are perfunctory documentaries, they follow a certain set of familiar rules about style and presentation,” said Morris. “Often, breaking those rules leads to certain kinds of punishments.” Morris knows there is discussion of how to categorize his film for awards, h...
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Sep 3, 2017 · At the center of “Wormwood” are two ill-fated men: Frank Olson, a CIA operative and biochemist who either jumped or was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel window in 1953, plummeting to his death...
Dec 14, 2017 · Wormwood sees him blending talking heads with dramatic scenes, featuring an all-star cast, including Peter Sarsgaard, Molly Parker, Bob Balaban and Tim Blake Nelson, in a way that has confounded critics as to whether it should even be called a documentary.
Dec 14, 2017 · Wormwood, the new Netflix true-crime documentary re-enactment series from director Errol Morris, investigates just that: Olson’s possible murder, and the conspiracy to cover up the death of...
