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Friday, December 16, 2011
THE TEN BEST FILMS OF 2011
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Tabloid
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Joyce McKinney in the 1960s, pictured in "Tabloid", the documentary by Errol
Morris.
IFC Films
Errol Morris, director
1 hour 28 minutes
Rated R for sexual content and nudity
(IFC Films)
July 2011
DVD (U.S., Canada)
"I don't feel I did anything
wrong."
by
Omar P.L. Moore/PopcornReel.com
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Friday,
December 16, 2011
As fascinating, sordid, saucy and mesmerizing as anything on the big screen in
2011, "Tabloid", directed by
Errol Morris, reinforced the notion that truth
is stranger than fiction, and in this spellbinding documentary Joyce McKinney,
who had personally taken to task (and threatened to sue) any film critic who
labeled her as odd, weird or crazy in their reviews of this film, is at the
center of this cause célèbre mystery kidnapping of Kirk Anderson, a Mormon, who
had been under Ms. McKinney's care and undivided attention for three days and
nights in a south England cottage, apparently manacled during a wild sex
marathon. Or not.
Infamously dubbed "the case of the manacled Mormon", Ms. McKinney's love affair
played out in the British tabloid papers and elsewhere in Europe like a blazing
storm in the 1970s. The press made her a celebrity, and later Ms. McKinney
became even more famous for events that seem tame in comparison to those
documented by Mr. Morris. Ms. McKinney has turned up at "Tabloid"
screenings and has denounced the director as a crazy, unfair, manipulative
filmmaker. She has threatened to sue Mr. Morris.
"Tabloid", a sometimes disturbing, bizarre and maniacal adventure, is always
riveting and ingenious, more an artistic rendering than a standard documentary.
Mr. Morris knows that the camera can lie, and his varied participants aren't
always the most reliable narrators. Like "Capturing The Friedmans" the
angles of truth are bent, and you aren't sure whom to believe in a frenzied
arena of performances, whether by Ms. McKinney, Daily Mirror
photographer Kent Gavin or even Mr. Morris himself.
A spectacle that hypnotized and entertained me so thoroughly, "Tabloid" felt
like a seductive serum that titillated, teased and triumphed.
Full written review
here.
NEXT: NUMBER 4
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