Something about my memory of having gone to see THE THIN BLUE LINE at the theater prompted me to look up the release date -- which was August 1988, and not that it really matters, but I think I saw it in the multiplex at Beverly Center. I don't recall what my interest was then, but it certainly was gripping. Then I sort of forgot about the film for years, and when Criterion released it I bought it -- not because I remembered specifically which film it was, because I was actually a little unclear about that -- but because I then wanted to get into the films of Errol Morris, whose name would have meant nothing to me back in 1988. It was a great revisit.
