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Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris, Standard Operating Procedure
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Thursday Apr 24, 2008 (7pm)
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Similar to this year's Best Documentary Oscar winner, Taxi to the Dark Side, director Errol Morris' Standard Operating Procedure digs deep into 2004's Abu Ghraib prison scandal. (Morris is is no stranger to the award himself, having taken the gold statuette for 2003's Fog of War.) In Standard, Morris surveys the photographic evidence portraying torture and human-rights abuses and speaks to notorious players like Army Private Lynndie England. As she and other participants from the military's PR nightmare open up, the film begins to sort out whether the scandal was the tip of an iceberg or really just a case of "a few bad apples."
