At TIFF 08, director Paul Cronin will bring his monumental four-hour oral history of the 1968 Columbia University student strike A Time to Stir (pictured right), screening on the last day of the Festival in the Mavericks section. Many cineastes may know Cronin?s remarkable scholarship from his books such as Herzog on Herzog. Now Cronin has posted a massive new interview with Errol Morris on his web site thestickingplace.com. Here?s an excerpt where Morris talks about trying to make a contribution to politics:

Morris: Politics is too important to be left to politicians. And the same could be said about political advertising. My producer Julie Ahlberg and I tried for months to provide advertising for the Democrats, for Kerry, but in the end no one was really interested in doing much of anything. Or, even if they were, no one could make decisions. The two of us were on a conference call with the Democrats, and I muted the phone, and told her: ?They?re going to lose.? No one could agree on anything, even to disagree. It was hopeless.