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What do Michael Haneke's Funny Games and Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure have in common? Both films pose the same question and perform the...

As reported last week, Sony Pictures Classics and Participant Productions were backing the new Errol Morris doc. Today, we have the tentative title - S.O.P. - which is a military acronym for Standard Operating Procedure”.

Errol Morris has done it. Even Michael Moore gave it a shot back in the 90s. Now another documentary filmmaker is transitioning into glitzy world of fiction flicks. Documentarian R.J. Cutler has signed on to direct an adaptation of former fashion editor Lee Tulloch’s Fabulous Nobodies.

Ferguson’s style is somewhere between that of Errol Morris and Michael Moore. We never see Ferguson on camera, he’s certainly not the protagonist of the film like Moore makes himself. He is not as stylized as Morris though, and does not mind when we hear his voice. Occasionally, he’ll leave his questions in to give context to the answers, and he will also leave his voice in when he argues with some interview subjects, or makes accusations at them.

You'd be partially right if you thought that Thom Powers would simply do a "copy and paste" job of shuffling films from TIFF's Reel to Real programme to the first edition of the DOC NYC festival. Powers, the fest's Artistic Director has loaded the inaugural edition of the New York City based documentary film festival with U.S preems of several titles from TIFF -- it includes a pair of galas for Herzog's 3D docu and Errol Morris' Tabloid, but DOC NYC will also include a dozen selected films...