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Charles Musser

Charles Musser is a professor of film and media studies at Yale University. His seventy-two-minute documentary Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch recently premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

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The Thin Blue Line: A Radical Classic

Errol Morris’s revolutionary film boldly investigated the truth of a murder case while reimagining documentary cinema aesthetics.

By Charles Musser

The King of Kings
Hollywood Boulevard was mobbed on the evening of May 18, 1927, as Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings premiered, the christening feature of Sid Grauman’s sumptuous new Chinese Theater. 100,000 people, the largest crowd ever to greet any kind of …

By Charles Musser