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The Josh Marshall Podcast

Ep. 91: A Must-Listen Interview With Filmmaker Errol Morris

The Josh Marshall Podcast

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4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris talks about his new documentary about Steve Bannon, "American Dharma." It's a contentious interview about a provocative film.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Josh Marshall, and this is the Josh Marshall podcast.

0:07.0

Today we have a truly different kind of episode of this podcast because we are are we actually just spoke to Errol Morris who you know the famous

0:17.6

documentary award winning or Academy Award winning

0:20.3

yeah I mean one of the you know one of the, you know, in recent decades, sort of the top, you know, top people

0:28.3

in this craft and he has this new documentary out about Steve Bannon called American

0:35.5

Darma and Kate and David and I watched it and then we actually just did an

0:41.5

interview with him and it was pretty contentious.

0:46.0

It was pretty kind of wild.

0:49.7

We were sort of talking about it, the three of us after Errol and the people he came over with left and I think at one

0:59.2

point we at least I thought he might actually get up and walk out of the interview and I don't

1:04.1

know how much of that was sort of like you know little drama and and and sort of performance.

1:10.8

Right, but yeah he was he was game to go back and forth.

1:14.1

And just to give a tiny bit of background, this film is a portrait of Steve Bannon essentially,

1:19.2

and it has been quite controversial with people arguing that he shouldn't have gotten a platform at all,

1:24.4

that the film is way, you know, not critical enough of him and his beliefs and his positions and his ideology,

1:32.4

which Errol Morris takes great... and his I'll be able to him,

1:33.0

Errol Morris takes great umbrage at as you'll see.

1:36.0

Quite a bit of umbrage.

1:37.0

And I think it would be fair to,

1:40.0

just to sum up what he was saying there is he sees there he sees the film as being

1:46.7

implicitly extremely critical of Bannon and I think maybe the three of us at least on

1:52.4

first watch found it like extremely implicit like that it's that it

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