A new true-crime comedy, "Sinner v. Saints," is currently in the works, with Maisie Williams and Freddie Highmore attached to play its leads.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, although the tone of the film is expected to be comedic in nature, the narrative is based on the real-life case of Joyce McKinney, who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson. The incident, officially known as the Manacled Mormon Case, was also the focus of the 2010 Errol Morris documentary, "Tabloid." "Sinner v. Saints" will be set in 1970s Los...
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Per The Hollywood Reporter, although the tone of the film is expected to be comedic in nature, the narrative is based on the real-life case of Joyce McKinney, who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson. The incident, officially known as the Manacled Mormon Case, was also the focus of the 2010 Errol Morris documentary, "Tabloid." "Sinner v. Saints" will be set in 1970s Los...
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- 5/9/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Tim Kirkby’s feature is due to begin shooting next year in the US and UK.
Maisie Williams and Freddie Highmore are set to star in Tim Kirkby’s Sinner V. Saints with London-based WestEnd Films launching international sales in Cannes.
The comedy is set to begin shooting in the US and UK next year.
It is based on the true story of former beauty queen Joyce Mckinney who made headlines after she kidnapped a Mormon missionary in an attempt to stop the church from stealing away her sexual obsession.
Mark Williams and Andriana Williams, head of Zero Gravity’s Inspire Division,...
Maisie Williams and Freddie Highmore are set to star in Tim Kirkby’s Sinner V. Saints with London-based WestEnd Films launching international sales in Cannes.
The comedy is set to begin shooting in the US and UK next year.
It is based on the true story of former beauty queen Joyce Mckinney who made headlines after she kidnapped a Mormon missionary in an attempt to stop the church from stealing away her sexual obsession.
Mark Williams and Andriana Williams, head of Zero Gravity’s Inspire Division,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
WestEnd Films is launching international sales in Cannes on Sinner V. Saints, a comedy based on the true story of the so-called “manacled Mormon” sex scandal. Maisie Williams and Freddie Highmore are lined up to star. Tim Kirkby is directing with shooting due to begin in the first quarter of next year in the U.S. and UK.
The script is written by Jill Hoppe and based on the book Joyce McKinney And The Case Of The Manacled Mormon by Anthony Delano, as well as news reports. Set in 1970s Los Angeles and London, the film traces a scandal that saw an eccentric Mensa beauty queen go to extreme lengths to stop the Mormon church from stealing away her sexual obsession: a Mormon missionary. Filmmaker Errol Morris previously treated the subject in a 2010 documentary, Tabloid.
Mark Williams and Andriana Williams (Head...
The script is written by Jill Hoppe and based on the book Joyce McKinney And The Case Of The Manacled Mormon by Anthony Delano, as well as news reports. Set in 1970s Los Angeles and London, the film traces a scandal that saw an eccentric Mensa beauty queen go to extreme lengths to stop the Mormon church from stealing away her sexual obsession: a Mormon missionary. Filmmaker Errol Morris previously treated the subject in a 2010 documentary, Tabloid.
Mark Williams and Andriana Williams (Head...
- 5/9/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Freddie Highmore and Maisie Williams will star in an adaptation of a bizarre true story about an American ex-beauty queen who was accused of kidnapping and raping a Mormon missionary in England.
Entitled “Sinner V. Saints,” the movie is directed by Tim Kirkby and will be sold by WestEnd Films, which is shopping the project to buyers in Cannes next week. The film will begin shooting in the first quarter of 2023 in the U.S. and U.K.
Set in 1970s Los Angeles and London, “Sinner V. Saints” is based on the true story of Joyce McKinney, who went to extreme lengths to stop the Mormon church from taking away her sexual obsession: a nebbish Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson. The sordid relationship — which was the focus of the 2010 Errol Morris documentary “Tabloid” — went awry and eventually resulted in accusations of kidnapping and rape against McKinney.
Mark Williams and Andriana Williams are producing.
Entitled “Sinner V. Saints,” the movie is directed by Tim Kirkby and will be sold by WestEnd Films, which is shopping the project to buyers in Cannes next week. The film will begin shooting in the first quarter of 2023 in the U.S. and U.K.
Set in 1970s Los Angeles and London, “Sinner V. Saints” is based on the true story of Joyce McKinney, who went to extreme lengths to stop the Mormon church from taking away her sexual obsession: a nebbish Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson. The sordid relationship — which was the focus of the 2010 Errol Morris documentary “Tabloid” — went awry and eventually resulted in accusations of kidnapping and rape against McKinney.
Mark Williams and Andriana Williams are producing.
- 5/9/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
This story first appeared in the Jan. 22 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. In the midst of a boom in true-crime documentaries like Making a Murderer and The Jinx, a Los Angeles courtroom is set to host a sensational trial that exposes the often fraught relationship between these filmmakers and their subjects. Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris, whose 1988 murder mystery The Thin Blue Line influenced a generation of nonfiction directors, will square off Feb. 29 against Joyce McKinney, who believes she is the victim of Morris' 2011 film Tabloid.
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- 1/15/2016
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ivan Radford Jun 13, 2017
More recommendations have been added to our list of Netflix UK movies you might want to try...
Ask some Netflix users and they'll tell you that Netflix UK pales in comparison to Netflix Us, that America has all the new, good stuff, while British streamers are left with the bargain bin rejects from old Blockbuster stores.
See related No Metroid Prime sequel for Wii U says series producer
Take a closer look, though, and there's a whole heap of quality there just waiting to be discovered. Whether they're unfairly maligned, or just criminally under-seen, here are 25 under-appreciated films on Netflix UK.
(We'll keep this list updated as things arrive or leave the service to make sure you don't run of new things to try. Last update: June 2017)
What We Do In The Shadows
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s horror mockumentary, which follows a group of vampire flatmates in Wellington,...
More recommendations have been added to our list of Netflix UK movies you might want to try...
Ask some Netflix users and they'll tell you that Netflix UK pales in comparison to Netflix Us, that America has all the new, good stuff, while British streamers are left with the bargain bin rejects from old Blockbuster stores.
See related No Metroid Prime sequel for Wii U says series producer
Take a closer look, though, and there's a whole heap of quality there just waiting to be discovered. Whether they're unfairly maligned, or just criminally under-seen, here are 25 under-appreciated films on Netflix UK.
(We'll keep this list updated as things arrive or leave the service to make sure you don't run of new things to try. Last update: June 2017)
What We Do In The Shadows
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s horror mockumentary, which follows a group of vampire flatmates in Wellington,...
- 3/25/2015
- Den of Geek
Filmmaker Errol Morris has won another round in his legal battle with Joyce McKinney, the woman who became famous in the 1970s during the "manacled Mormon" sex scandal.
The former American beauty queen was alleged to have abducted and raped Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson while he was touring England in 1977.
Their bizarre story unfolded in salacious detail in two newspapers, the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, as they fought to out-scoop each other.
And the saga was told by Morris in Tabloid, a documentary film first screened in London in October 2010, which I regarded at the time as a "a sad tale of old Fleet Street."
McKinney sued Morris and others responsible for the film, alleging - among other things - that she was tricked into giving an interview to Morris.
A Los Angeles judge dismissed many of McKinney's allegations, including her claim that the film had defamed her and violated her likeness and privacy.
The former American beauty queen was alleged to have abducted and raped Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson while he was touring England in 1977.
Their bizarre story unfolded in salacious detail in two newspapers, the Daily Mirror and Daily Express, as they fought to out-scoop each other.
And the saga was told by Morris in Tabloid, a documentary film first screened in London in October 2010, which I regarded at the time as a "a sad tale of old Fleet Street."
McKinney sued Morris and others responsible for the film, alleging - among other things - that she was tricked into giving an interview to Morris.
A Los Angeles judge dismissed many of McKinney's allegations, including her claim that the film had defamed her and violated her likeness and privacy.
- 10/17/2013
- by Roy Greenslade
- The Guardian - Film News
Three years before Errol Morris experienced a victory at a California appeals court on Tuesday, the famed documentary filmmaker tweeted, "I prefer the truth with some varnish on it. (Where did that nonsensical phrase – the unvarnished truth – come from?)” Morris could have hardly picked a better subject to illustrate the point than Joyce McKinney, who became famous in the 1970s after British tabloids presented her as the so-called "Manacled Mormon," a former American beauty queen who was alleged to have gone to England, abducting Kirk Anderson, a Mormon missionary, and then raping him. Years later, McKinney
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- 10/16/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dear Danny,
Funny you mention Casanova and Dracula, because that could easily be one way to describe the legitimately uncanny Under the Skin. Another would be Species directed by the Antonioni of Red Desert. From the opening shots—a staring retina emerges from a wandering dark orb, the cosmic unto the visceral—there’s a sense of ineffable dread making the images vibrate. It’s an otherworldly film, but the locations are scraggly, overcast, wintry, a Scotland very much like that of Ken Loach. Against this naturalism lies the most extreme stylization, patches of abstract blackness literally swallowing up young men as they march towards the beckoning heroine, a body-harvesting creature that happens to look exactly like Scarlett Johansson. Just as a human body can be evacuated of everything but its skin (one of several remarkable visions), so is an alien skin gradually filled with… what? Horror? Longing? Compassion? The...
Funny you mention Casanova and Dracula, because that could easily be one way to describe the legitimately uncanny Under the Skin. Another would be Species directed by the Antonioni of Red Desert. From the opening shots—a staring retina emerges from a wandering dark orb, the cosmic unto the visceral—there’s a sense of ineffable dread making the images vibrate. It’s an otherworldly film, but the locations are scraggly, overcast, wintry, a Scotland very much like that of Ken Loach. Against this naturalism lies the most extreme stylization, patches of abstract blackness literally swallowing up young men as they march towards the beckoning heroine, a body-harvesting creature that happens to look exactly like Scarlett Johansson. Just as a human body can be evacuated of everything but its skin (one of several remarkable visions), so is an alien skin gradually filled with… what? Horror? Longing? Compassion? The...
- 9/13/2013
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
A good talker can be a mixed blessing for the documentary biographer. Tabloid's Joyce McKinney, for instance, the beauty queen alleged to have abducted and raped a Mormon missionary in the 1970s, proved hypnotically chatty. Every nutty tangent and girlish inflection, as presented by Errol Morris, contributed to a portrait as strange and magnetic as the personality at its center. Then there are those subjects whose every knowing anecdote and aphorism serve to polish a jewel-cut—and ultimately deflective—self-mythology. Artist Tomi Ungerer is one such subject. Watching Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, it's clear that no one ever told this illustrator and author's story bigger, longer, and with better sound bites than Ungerer himself.
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- 6/12/2013
- Village Voice
In such films as The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War and Mr. Death, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has won acclaim for his attention to detail in challenging conventional wisdom on historical subjects. Then last year, Morris was sued by Joyce McKinney, the central figure in his documentary, Tabloid, for allegedly tricking her into appearing in the film. Photos: Top 10 Legal Disclaimers in Hollywood Since first being filed, the lawsuit has taken some twists and turns, with some parts being dismissed and others being allowed to continue. If the dispute gets to trial, the case could
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- 8/25/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tyrannosaur; Tabloid; Midnight in Paris; Perfect Sense; Footloose
One of the very few major disappointments at this year's Bafta nominations was the lack of a best actress nod for the brilliant Olivia Colman. While Oscar voters tend to prefer their British thespians to play royals rather than real people, Colman's portrayal of an apparently happy-go-lucky charity shop worker with a dark domestic secret in Tyrannosaur (2011, StudioCanal, 18) deserved to wow British voters.
An assured and deeply personal feature debut from writer-director Paddy Considine, this tough but elegiac drama throws together two displaced souls: Colman's covertly abused wife (the mercurial Eddie Marsan plays her tormentor with horrific conviction and guile) and Peter Mullan's borderline psychotic drunk who opens the movie by kicking his faithful dog to death in a fit of impotent rage. It all sounds unbearably tough and certainly there is much here that challenges even the most sympathetic viewer to flinch and turn away.
One of the very few major disappointments at this year's Bafta nominations was the lack of a best actress nod for the brilliant Olivia Colman. While Oscar voters tend to prefer their British thespians to play royals rather than real people, Colman's portrayal of an apparently happy-go-lucky charity shop worker with a dark domestic secret in Tyrannosaur (2011, StudioCanal, 18) deserved to wow British voters.
An assured and deeply personal feature debut from writer-director Paddy Considine, this tough but elegiac drama throws together two displaced souls: Colman's covertly abused wife (the mercurial Eddie Marsan plays her tormentor with horrific conviction and guile) and Peter Mullan's borderline psychotic drunk who opens the movie by kicking his faithful dog to death in a fit of impotent rage. It all sounds unbearably tough and certainly there is much here that challenges even the most sympathetic viewer to flinch and turn away.
- 2/5/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Tyrannosaur
Like Gary Oldman (Nil By Mouth) and Tim Roth (The War Zone) before him, actor Paddy Considine has picked a relentlessly grim and challenging story for his first outing as director. It's the story of a bond that forms between the drunken, volatile Joseph (Peter Mullan) and Hannah (Olivia Colman), a good-natured volunteer at a charity shop who is just as tortured and troubled. Their relationship doesn't provide redemption for either of them but it does give them the impetus they need to break whatever circle of misery they are locked into.
As a director Considine isn't too concerned with framing shots or pacing; his real skill lies in capturing moments of intensity and character. Mullan has played men like Joseph before, but that gives him the strength and lack of ego to tackle a character who is introduced killing his dog (offscreen), and later makes racist comments to shop workers.
Like Gary Oldman (Nil By Mouth) and Tim Roth (The War Zone) before him, actor Paddy Considine has picked a relentlessly grim and challenging story for his first outing as director. It's the story of a bond that forms between the drunken, volatile Joseph (Peter Mullan) and Hannah (Olivia Colman), a good-natured volunteer at a charity shop who is just as tortured and troubled. Their relationship doesn't provide redemption for either of them but it does give them the impetus they need to break whatever circle of misery they are locked into.
As a director Considine isn't too concerned with framing shots or pacing; his real skill lies in capturing moments of intensity and character. Mullan has played men like Joseph before, but that gives him the strength and lack of ego to tackle a character who is introduced killing his dog (offscreen), and later makes racist comments to shop workers.
- 2/4/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Director Errol Morris has made a career out of solving mysteries, which comes as no surprise since the man used to be a private detective. Whether he was exonerating Randall Dale Adams in The Thin Blue Line or unraveling a sordid sex tale in Tabloid, Morris has deftly used his subjects to provide gripping accounts of situations that have been wrapped in intrigue and ambiguity. In his book, Believing is Seeing, Morris turns his attention to the art of photography. In a series of photographic whodunnits, Morris explores the truth-telling capacity of photos. His conclusion? "Photographs don't have truth value." I had a chance to sit down with Morris in his Cambridge, Ma office during his recent book tour and chat extensively with him about the nature of photography, the plausibility of re-enactments, and Joyce McKinney's controversial reaction to Tabloid [1]. After the break, read highlights of my discussion with Morris.
- 1/20/2012
- by David Chen
- Slash Film
The backlash against the Academy’s recent changes to its nomination policies for documentary films contrasted with the casual atmosphere of last night’s Cinema Eye Honors. In an intimate theater at the Museum of the Moving Image, the pillars of the documentary community gathered to celebrate the breadth and diversity of their craft. In attendance were Frederick Wiseman, Al Maysles, Steve James, Alex Gibney, Michael Moore, Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky and many more. Founder and co-host Aj Schnack spoke of the Cinema Eyes evolution prior to the awards:
“Some things about Cinema Eye are the same as they were that first time that we gathered together at the IFC Center in 2008 – that sense of community, a feeling that we are honoring our community’s values of respecting artistic craft and recognizing the entire collaborative team. What’s changed is that instead of just a couple of us making the event happen,...
“Some things about Cinema Eye are the same as they were that first time that we gathered together at the IFC Center in 2008 – that sense of community, a feeling that we are honoring our community’s values of respecting artistic craft and recognizing the entire collaborative team. What’s changed is that instead of just a couple of us making the event happen,...
- 1/13/2012
- by Daniel James Scott
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
There were many delights to be found in UK cinemas in 2011 both in wide release and at the wide variety of festivals that still thrive here. I watched a great many films in 2011 and there were a large number that impressed me and below are some of my favourites.
I have divided the films into released and unreleased categories, thereby allowing me to include films seen at festivals that have have not (yet) been released in the UK. Some of these films are still without a distributor (including my number one film) and therefore may never be eligible for inclusion in a ‘released top ten list’.
Released Top Ten
1. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
“Who would have thought the age of war would be like this? It’s magnificent.”
Having followed Takashi Miike’s career for a number of years there has been plenty of variety, from fantastical kid’s films to graphically violent experimentation,...
I have divided the films into released and unreleased categories, thereby allowing me to include films seen at festivals that have have not (yet) been released in the UK. Some of these films are still without a distributor (including my number one film) and therefore may never be eligible for inclusion in a ‘released top ten list’.
Released Top Ten
1. 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike)
“Who would have thought the age of war would be like this? It’s magnificent.”
Having followed Takashi Miike’s career for a number of years there has been plenty of variety, from fantastical kid’s films to graphically violent experimentation,...
- 1/6/2012
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Joyce McKinney, Errol Morris' Tabloid A few days ago, the Detroit Film Critics chose Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, starring Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo, as their top film of 2011. Set in Hollywood at the dawn of the sound era, The Artist is currently the favorite for the 2012 Best Picture Oscar. Competition, however, remains fierce, including Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Steven Spielberg's War Horse, and Alexander Payne's The Descendants. [Full list of Detroit Film Critics winners.] Hazanavicius was also the Detroit Critics' Best Director, but the Best Screenplay Award went to Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian for Moneyball, a baseball drama directed by Bennett Miller and starring Brad Pitt. In the acting categories, Michael Fassbender was the Best Actor for his performance as a troubled man who enjoys a lot of sex in Steve McQueen's Shame, while Carey Mulligan, Fassbender's troubled sister in Shame, was the Best Supporting Actress. Critics' faves Michelle Williams...
- 12/28/2011
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Why not fold documentaries into my list of the "Best Films of 2011?" After all, a movie is a movie, right? Yes, and some years I've thrown them all into the same mixture. But all of these year-end Best lists serve one useful purpose: They tell you about good movies you may not have seen or heard about. The more films on my list that aren't on yours, the better job I've done.
That's particularly true were you to depend on the "short list" released by the Academy's Documentary Branch of 15 films they deem eligible for nomination. The branch has been through turmoil in the past and its procedures were "reformed" at one point. But this year it has made a particularly scandalous sin of
omission. It doesn't include "The Interrupters" (currently scoring 99% on the Tomatometer), which has received better reviews and been on more critic's Best lists than any other.
That's particularly true were you to depend on the "short list" released by the Academy's Documentary Branch of 15 films they deem eligible for nomination. The branch has been through turmoil in the past and its procedures were "reformed" at one point. But this year it has made a particularly scandalous sin of
omission. It doesn't include "The Interrupters" (currently scoring 99% on the Tomatometer), which has received better reviews and been on more critic's Best lists than any other.
- 12/25/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Reviewer: Philip Tatler IV
Rating (out of five): *** 1/2
With Tabloid, Errol Morris turns his camera on the lurid life story of Joyce McKinney, a fetching young lady from a small town in North Carolina whose love for a Mormon man resulted in several bizarre international incidents. Before the decade-spanning story is over, McKinney finds herself mixed up in alleged kidnapping, aberrant sexual practices, a Christlike canine, ugly undergarments, and even cloning.
Rating (out of five): *** 1/2
With Tabloid, Errol Morris turns his camera on the lurid life story of Joyce McKinney, a fetching young lady from a small town in North Carolina whose love for a Mormon man resulted in several bizarre international incidents. Before the decade-spanning story is over, McKinney finds herself mixed up in alleged kidnapping, aberrant sexual practices, a Christlike canine, ugly undergarments, and even cloning.
- 12/13/2011
- by weezy
- GreenCine
DVD Playhouse—November 2011
By Allen Gardner
Tree Of Life (20th Century Fox) Terrence Malick’s latest effort is both the best film of 2011 and the finest work of his (arguably) mixed, but often masterly canon. A series of vignettes, mostly set in 1950s Texas, capture the memory of a man (Sean Penn) in present-day New York who looks back on his life, and his parents’ (Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain) troubled marriage, when word of his younger brother’s suicide reaches him. Almost indescribable beyond that, except to say no other film in history so perfectly evokes the magic and mystery of the human memory, which both crystalizes (and sometimes idealizes) the past. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this is a challenging, polarizing work that you must let wash over you. If you go along for the ride, you’re in for a unique, rewarding cinematic experience. Also available on Blu-ray disc.
By Allen Gardner
Tree Of Life (20th Century Fox) Terrence Malick’s latest effort is both the best film of 2011 and the finest work of his (arguably) mixed, but often masterly canon. A series of vignettes, mostly set in 1950s Texas, capture the memory of a man (Sean Penn) in present-day New York who looks back on his life, and his parents’ (Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain) troubled marriage, when word of his younger brother’s suicide reaches him. Almost indescribable beyond that, except to say no other film in history so perfectly evokes the magic and mystery of the human memory, which both crystalizes (and sometimes idealizes) the past. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, this is a challenging, polarizing work that you must let wash over you. If you go along for the ride, you’re in for a unique, rewarding cinematic experience. Also available on Blu-ray disc.
- 11/25/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
The documentary branch of the Academy is beginning to get as crazy with it's random snubs as the music branch, I have to say. Today's announcement of 15 eligible contenders for the Best Documentary Feature category revealed outright snubs of two of the most acclaimed hopefuls of the year -- "Senna" and "The Interrupters" -- while perhaps less surprisingly, Werner Herzog got the shaft once again for his best film in years, "Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life." Errol Morris was also shafted for "Tabloid" (which is embroiled in a lawsuit threat from subject Joyce McKinney), while other high-profile hopefuls like "Being Elmo: A Pupeteer's...
- 11/18/2011
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Errol Morris has directed several of the best documentaries of recent years, among them The Fog of War and The Thin Blue Line. One of his lighter (and in my view overly jocular) efforts, Tabloid digs up the long-forgotten story of pretty but nutty South Carolina beauty queen Joyce McKinney, who became obsessed with Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson, put together a team of abductors in California and pursued him to Britain in 1977. The kidnapping of Anderson, his incarceration in a Devon cottage where he was manacled to a bedstead, McKinney's time in Pentonville and her escape to the States disguised as a deaf mute, gave the British press a field day. The Daily Express presented her as a nun-like figure, the Daily Mirror dug up her career as a call girl in Los Angeles, and both had a point. It's a bizarre "where are they now?" story of a rather unedifying kind,...
- 11/13/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Black Pond (15)
(Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, 2011, UK) Chris Langham, Colin Hurley, Amanda Hadingue, Will Sharpe, Simon Amstell. 82 mins
First-time films are traditionally youthful coming-of-age stories, but this delightful little oddity revolves around a miserable middle-aged couple and the deaths of first their three-legged dog, then a very strange stranger they invite to dinner. Everything about it is pretty eccentric, in fact, with surreal animated interludes, an absurd cameo from Amstell and plenty of off-balance domestic comedy, not to mention the risky return of Langham. But in its own idiosyncratic way, it all fits together perfectly.
Wuthering Heights (15)
(Andrea Arnold, 2011, UK) Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Shannon Beer. 129 mins
Discarding the usual niceties of costume drama, Arnold rolls Brontë's saga in the muck for this provocative, sensuous interpretation. Sublime to start with, it never quite recovers from a second-half change of cast.
The Rum Diary (15)
(Bruce Robinson, 2011, Us) Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart,...
(Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, 2011, UK) Chris Langham, Colin Hurley, Amanda Hadingue, Will Sharpe, Simon Amstell. 82 mins
First-time films are traditionally youthful coming-of-age stories, but this delightful little oddity revolves around a miserable middle-aged couple and the deaths of first their three-legged dog, then a very strange stranger they invite to dinner. Everything about it is pretty eccentric, in fact, with surreal animated interludes, an absurd cameo from Amstell and plenty of off-balance domestic comedy, not to mention the risky return of Langham. But in its own idiosyncratic way, it all fits together perfectly.
Wuthering Heights (15)
(Andrea Arnold, 2011, UK) Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Shannon Beer. 129 mins
Discarding the usual niceties of costume drama, Arnold rolls Brontë's saga in the muck for this provocative, sensuous interpretation. Sublime to start with, it never quite recovers from a second-half change of cast.
The Rum Diary (15)
(Bruce Robinson, 2011, Us) Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart,...
- 11/12/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This was the week that Eddie Murphy baled out of the Oscars, leaving the way clear for the some fabric puppets
The big story
Once upon a time the Oscar ceremony was a comforting drone punctuated only by the odd song-and-dance routine and the banshee wailing of overwhelmed best actress award winners. Not any more. Someone, somewhere, decided it had to get "edgy". Last time, they had cool young persons in the shape of James Franco and Anne Hathaway introducing it - and look how that worked out.
The big idea for 2012 was to hire a bona fide Hollywood hotshot, so naturally the word went out for Brett Ratner. Yes, well... he made Rush Hour 2, you know. No sooner had Ratner persuaded his mucker Eddie Murphy to act as the show's host (an inspired choice, we give him that) then he was promptly ejected from his co-producer role after...
The big story
Once upon a time the Oscar ceremony was a comforting drone punctuated only by the odd song-and-dance routine and the banshee wailing of overwhelmed best actress award winners. Not any more. Someone, somewhere, decided it had to get "edgy". Last time, they had cool young persons in the shape of James Franco and Anne Hathaway introducing it - and look how that worked out.
The big idea for 2012 was to hire a bona fide Hollywood hotshot, so naturally the word went out for Brett Ratner. Yes, well... he made Rush Hour 2, you know. No sooner had Ratner persuaded his mucker Eddie Murphy to act as the show's host (an inspired choice, we give him that) then he was promptly ejected from his co-producer role after...
- 11/11/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris (Thin Blue Line [1988], Fog of War [2003]) returns with his ninth feature-length documentary Tabloid (2010), an intriguing and jovial examination of the sensationalism which fuels tabloid journalism. Morris found the perfect subject in Joyce McKinney for his exposé of how truth can often be distorted by the mainstream media. Her stranger-than-fiction story switches between the accounts of a deluded fantasist and old-school romantic, continually blurring the lines of fact and fiction.
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- 11/10/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
This week Jason Solomons is joined by Withnail & I writer/director Bruce Robinson, who discusses his Hollywood career in bold, bald terms and explains why Hunter S. Thompson's novel The Rum Diary (and Johnny Depp) drew him back to directing.
Documentary film-maker Errol Morris's films have led to the release of a falsely accused death row inmate (The Thin Blue Line) and won an Oscar for the director via his brilliant portrait of former U.S. Secretary of Defence R.S McNamara (The Fog of War). Morris talks to Jason about his new film Tabloid, which looks at the extraordinary life of Joyce McKinney - the Wyoming beauty queen who became a UK tabloid sensation after the 'manacled Mormon' scandal.
Xan Brooks joins Jason to review some of this week's other releases, including James McAvoy and Bill Nighy in Aardman animation latest, Arthur Christmas, Rebecca Hall and Dominic West...
Documentary film-maker Errol Morris's films have led to the release of a falsely accused death row inmate (The Thin Blue Line) and won an Oscar for the director via his brilliant portrait of former U.S. Secretary of Defence R.S McNamara (The Fog of War). Morris talks to Jason about his new film Tabloid, which looks at the extraordinary life of Joyce McKinney - the Wyoming beauty queen who became a UK tabloid sensation after the 'manacled Mormon' scandal.
Xan Brooks joins Jason to review some of this week's other releases, including James McAvoy and Bill Nighy in Aardman animation latest, Arthur Christmas, Rebecca Hall and Dominic West...
- 11/9/2011
- by Jason Solomons, Xan Brooks, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
Former Us beauty queen at centre of the 'manacled Mormon' scandal in the 70s claims new movie 'promotes vicious and malicious lies' about her
Joyce McKinney, the former Us beauty queen who is the subject of documentarian Errol Morris's latest film, Tabloid, is suing the makers of the film, claiming it misrepresents her story. She claims it portrays her as "crazy, a sex offender, an S&M prostitute, and/or a rapist".
The film tells the story of the sensation McKinney caused in the British tabloid press after the brief disappearance of Kirk Anderson, a Us Mormon missionary, from Ewell in Surrey in September 1977. When he reappeared, a few days later, he told police he had been kidnapped and imprisoned in Devon, where McKinney forced him to have sex with her. The affair became known in the UK press as "the case of the manacled Mormon".
McKinney has always...
Joyce McKinney, the former Us beauty queen who is the subject of documentarian Errol Morris's latest film, Tabloid, is suing the makers of the film, claiming it misrepresents her story. She claims it portrays her as "crazy, a sex offender, an S&M prostitute, and/or a rapist".
The film tells the story of the sensation McKinney caused in the British tabloid press after the brief disappearance of Kirk Anderson, a Us Mormon missionary, from Ewell in Surrey in September 1977. When he reappeared, a few days later, he told police he had been kidnapped and imprisoned in Devon, where McKinney forced him to have sex with her. The affair became known in the UK press as "the case of the manacled Mormon".
McKinney has always...
- 11/8/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Errol Morris, London
The esteem in which this documentarian is held can be judged by the people interviewing him on stage: BBC Storyville producer Nick Fraser, Adam Curtis, Franny Armstrong and the Guardian's Xan Brooks. Each Q&A is preceded by a screening of Morris's latest, Tabloid, which marks a return to his eccentric terrain after recent films on Abu Ghraib (Standard Operating Procedure) and the Vietnam war (The Fog Of War). Tabloid revisits the very British scandal of Joyce McKinney, a Wyoming beauty queen who allegedly kidnapped and sexually enslaved her beau – or did she rescue him from the Mormons? Morris gives us the story from all sides.
Brixton Ritzy, SW2, Sat; Bafta, W1, Sun; Gate Notting Hill, W11; Screen On The Green, N1, Tue
French Film Festival, On tour
There's a tinge of nostalgia to the festival's big draws this year. Special guest Daniel Auteuil harks back to...
The esteem in which this documentarian is held can be judged by the people interviewing him on stage: BBC Storyville producer Nick Fraser, Adam Curtis, Franny Armstrong and the Guardian's Xan Brooks. Each Q&A is preceded by a screening of Morris's latest, Tabloid, which marks a return to his eccentric terrain after recent films on Abu Ghraib (Standard Operating Procedure) and the Vietnam war (The Fog Of War). Tabloid revisits the very British scandal of Joyce McKinney, a Wyoming beauty queen who allegedly kidnapped and sexually enslaved her beau – or did she rescue him from the Mormons? Morris gives us the story from all sides.
Brixton Ritzy, SW2, Sat; Bafta, W1, Sun; Gate Notting Hill, W11; Screen On The Green, N1, Tue
French Film Festival, On tour
There's a tinge of nostalgia to the festival's big draws this year. Special guest Daniel Auteuil harks back to...
- 11/5/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicago – Errol Morris is not just a great “documentary” filmmaker, he’s one of the most important living directors. His work is wildly entertaining but not often give deserved credit for being as influential as any filmmaker of his generation. His latest, “Tabloid,” recently released on DVD, is another gem about a unique personality — the director’s speciality. With a bizarre blend of stories that are too ridiculous to be true, Joyce McKinney almost seems to have been designed as a Morris creation. It’s a shame that no bonus material is available for the DVD-only release, but the movie itself is a gem.
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
One of the brilliant things about Morris’ work is his refusal to judge his subjects. “Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control,” “Sick,” “Mr. Death,” his TV series “First Person” — his films often feature what could politely be called “unique personalities” (and, impolitely, totally crazy). Joyce McKinney...
DVD Rating: 4.0/5.0
One of the brilliant things about Morris’ work is his refusal to judge his subjects. “Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control,” “Sick,” “Mr. Death,” his TV series “First Person” — his films often feature what could politely be called “unique personalities” (and, impolitely, totally crazy). Joyce McKinney...
- 11/4/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Well, she’s been threatening it for months now (but with her, how do you know what she’ll actually do?), but it’s actually come to pass: Joyce McKinney, the subject of Errol Morris’ outstandingly odd “Tabloid,” is suing the director for, among many other things, “likeness, defamation, misrepresentation, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract.” “Tabloid” is the story of McKinney’s life, specifically an incident in 1977 when she flew to England to retrieve her boyfriend, who was on missionary work for the Mormon church and who claimed, later, that he had been kidnapped and raped by McKinney.…...
- 11/4/2011
- The Playlist
Errol Morris's documentary Tabloid is a funny, irreverent and very strange look at Joyce McKinney, a woman who either heroically rescued her Mormon fiance from a cult in England, or kidnapped him and raped him in a cottage against his will. The British tabloids ran with one version of that story and Joyce insists on another, and that conflict-- along with the many other strange things in Joyce's colorful life-- make up Morris's irresistible film. But as Tabloid started making the festival rounds last year, even when McKinney would show up to screenings and Q&As, it became clear she wasn't entirely happy with how she had been portrayed on-screen. Now she's made those complaints very, very public. According to Deadline McKinney has filed a lawsuit against Morris and his documentary crew, claiming "misappropriation of likeness, defamation, misrepresentation, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and breach of contract." In...
- 11/4/2011
- cinemablend.com
Joyce McKinney is a woman with a lot of love to give and in 1977 she found a man to devote herself to completely. This man was Kirk Anderson and according to Joyce the two fell madly in love. The only problem was that Kirk Anderson was a Mormon and following their whirlwind romance Kirk ‘disappeared’. The circumstances surrounding Kirk’s disappearance are the first of many situations in which the real story is almost impossible to discern. It later appeared to transpire that Kirk had moved to the UK for Mormon missionary work but Joyce was adamant that he had been kidnapped and taken to the UK against his will.
Hiring a private investigator, a pilot and bodyguards she traveled to find Kirk, liberate him from the Mormon church and continue their relationship. Liberate him she did, and not just from the church. Hiding out in a cottage in Devon...
Hiring a private investigator, a pilot and bodyguards she traveled to find Kirk, liberate him from the Mormon church and continue their relationship. Liberate him she did, and not just from the church. Hiding out in a cottage in Devon...
- 11/3/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Errol Morris does something remarkable with his latest documentary, Tabloid, in that he takes the notorious Joyce McKinney, a personality that gossip rags smeared left and right, and creates a wholly sympathetic portrait. At least, that’s how it starts, and it’s to his credit that he was able to keep up the charade for as long as he did, because once he takes the blinders off the audience and starts filtering in outside opinions, you start to get a picture far from the original one Joyce paints us. Were it not for Morris’s perfect editing and staging, it’s doubtful that Tabloid would be the entertaining documentary that it is, but he manages to bring a fresh perspective (all be it a kooky one) to a horse beaten to death, and the only true drawback is that he seems to enjoy the flogging a little too much...
- 10/30/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
The documentary-maker talks to Sukhdev Sandhu about working as a private detective, breaking into a mental hospital and the spat with Us beauty queen Joyce McKinney over his new film, Tabloid
This is weird. The documentary film-maker Errol Morris says he likes the Guardian – "It's my favourite paper" – but, sitting in the lobby of a sleekly manicured hotel in New York's SoHo district to talk about his work, it's not clear if he likes documentaries very much. "This is going to get me depressed," he groans. "I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason. I don't know what I should be doing. I'm tired of everything – mostly of myself."
It's weird not because Morris is being downbeat – after all, he once had a magazine column entitled The Grump; a typical post on his Twitter account...
This is weird. The documentary film-maker Errol Morris says he likes the Guardian – "It's my favourite paper" – but, sitting in the lobby of a sleekly manicured hotel in New York's SoHo district to talk about his work, it's not clear if he likes documentaries very much. "This is going to get me depressed," he groans. "I feel as if I became a documentary film-maker only because I had writer's block for four decades. There's no other good reason. I don't know what I should be doing. I'm tired of everything – mostly of myself."
It's weird not because Morris is being downbeat – after all, he once had a magazine column entitled The Grump; a typical post on his Twitter account...
- 10/28/2011
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
The beauty queen, the Mormon missionary tied to a bed – Joyce McKinney's bizarre story gripped Britain in the 1970s and is now retold in a fine documentary
Joyce McKinney is one of those names that for people of a certain age opens a doorway into the past. To mention it is to be transported back to the 1970s, when there were only three TV channels, British food was awful, sex was naughty and Fleet Street was still the home of national newspapers. Back then computers were the preserve of boffins in white coats, but even if journalists had managed to lay their hands on some mainframe monster the size of a small house, and programmed it with all the ingredients of the perfect tabloid story, the results could never have matched the bizarre and compelling tale of a wannabe beauty queen's obsessional love.
Featuring a missionary, a kidnapping, bondage sex,...
Joyce McKinney is one of those names that for people of a certain age opens a doorway into the past. To mention it is to be transported back to the 1970s, when there were only three TV channels, British food was awful, sex was naughty and Fleet Street was still the home of national newspapers. Back then computers were the preserve of boffins in white coats, but even if journalists had managed to lay their hands on some mainframe monster the size of a small house, and programmed it with all the ingredients of the perfect tabloid story, the results could never have matched the bizarre and compelling tale of a wannabe beauty queen's obsessional love.
Featuring a missionary, a kidnapping, bondage sex,...
- 10/17/2011
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
See the trailer, poster and images for Tabloid, the documentary directed by Errol Morris. Thirty years before the antics of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears were regular gossip fodder, Miss Wyoming Joyce McKinney made her mark as a tabloid staple ne plus ultra. Morris follows the salacious adventures of this beauty queen with an Iq of 168 whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her across the globe, into jail, and onto the front page. Joyce's labyrinthine crusade for love takes her through a surreal world of kidnapping, manacled Mormons, risqué photography, magic underwear, and celestial sex-until her dream is finally realized in a cloning laboratory in Seoul, South Korea.
- 6/9/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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