AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Fragments of truth.(Film)(Movie Review)
IS IT A CRIME not to study history? Yes, if you happen to be President of the United States, or Secretary of Defense. That is the clear implication of Errol Morris's new documentary on Robert S. McNamara, The Fog of War. Morris is best known for his film The Thin Blue Line, an investigation into a real-life murder that ended up uncovering the real criminal. Critics have pointed out that just about all the film-maker's other films have become enquiries of one kind or another-not surprising, as Morris was once a private detective. The Fog of War is no exception: and repeatedly what is exposed is either a historical revelation, or an inadequate grasp of history leading to ...
- Fog of war; Questionable lessons drawn from career of Robert McNamara.(SHOW)(ON...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 26, 2003 700+ words
...latest film, "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons...Life of Robert S. McNamara," which opens today...s doing than Mr. McNamara's. "Fog" is on more solid...short, banal? Mr. McNamara, while evasive for much of "Fog," addresses this...
- New Morris Film Traps McNamara in a Fog of War.(TheFrontPage)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) September 29, 2003 700+ words
...new film about Robert McNamara, The Fog of War, which will...of the film is The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons...Life of Robert S. McNamara, and it is one of...force. I look at the McNamara story as the-fog-of-war-ate...
- Bob, we hardly knew YA: Robert McNamara & 'The Fog of War'.(Screen)(Movie...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Cooper, Rand Richards February 13, 2004 700+ words
...newest effort, The Fog of War, provides...times of Robert S. McNamara, secretary of defense...Auschwitz. The Fog of War continues...gone awry. As for McNamara himself, at eighty...smart enough. The Fog of War charts McNamara's lifelong precociousness...
- `Fog' clears on McNamara.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Verniere, James January 23, 2004 700+ words
...backward-looking "The Fog of War" is rather...Life of Robert S. McNamara." But it is as...Secretary of Defense McNamara, "The Fog of War" is on one...history. ("The Fog of War" contains...DEFENSE: Robert McNamara, former secretary...
- ROBERT MCNAMARA SAYS `FOG' IS ABOUT IDEAS, NOT HIM.(LIFESTYLE)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) March 10, 2004 700+ words
...Washington Post, Robert McNamara sees his image staring...movie ads for "The Fog of War" -- ads...movie audiences. McNamara insists that "The Fog of War" is not really...snippets of "The Fog of War" and has studied McNamara's memoirs, says...
- Rationality will not save us: Errol Morris pursues McNamara into the Fog.(The...
- Magazine article from: The Progressive Esther, John March 1, 2004 700+ words
...in February 1968, McNamara received the Presidential...served until 1981. The Fog of War, which is broken...eleven lessons, reveals McNamara's mindset. One of...Morris. It's like "the fog of war ate my homework...I don't think he [McNamara] b
- MCNAMARA STEPS OUT OF 'FOG'.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Denerstein, Robert February 27, 2004 700+ words
...mesmerizing documentary The Fog of War, Eleven Lessons...Life of Robert S. McNamara, I was so busy sorting...through the movie. Fog of War may not dot...the impression that McNamara had no intention...clobbered. INFOBOX The Fog of War A look at the life of Robert S. McNamara * Grade: ...
- The century of the 'son of a bitch'.(portrayal of Robert McNamara in Errol...
- Magazine article from: The Nation Alterman, Eric December 15, 2003 700+ words
...Do you feel guilty? McNamara: I don't want to go...Morris's new film, The Fog of War, a documentary...and character of Robert McNamara, fascinates on many...horrible century it was. McNamara places his first memory...During the course of The Fog of War, we hear the...
