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	Errol Morris: Film
		Recently, Morris was highly praised for his short film that ran at the front of the 2002 Academy Awards, where he asked an admixture of anonymous and well-known people outside the movie business to talk about what they love about movies.
		In 1992, Errol finished a film about the life and work of Stephen Hawking, the physicist who is often compared to Einstein despite having spent most of his life confined to a wheelchair - a computer his only means of communication.
		Morris' work received a full retrospective in November 1999 at the Museum of Modern Art in 1999 and he was given a special tribute at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001.
	www.errolmorris.com /biography.html (1038 words)

	Errol Morris
		Errol Morris is an American documentary film director, born February 5, 1948.
		Morris gained fame after the release of The Thin Blue Line, a film arguing that a man convicted of murder in Dallas County, Texas had been convicted wrongfully; the film was submitted as evidence to secure the retrial leading to the man's eventual release.
		Morris is also noted for directing Gates of Heaven[?], Vernon, Florida[?], A Brief History of Time[?], Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control[?], and Mr.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/er/Errol_Morris.html (149 words)

	Errol Morris
		Errol Morris has built a triumphant career out of tweaking the conventions of the documentary form and playing with people's expectations of what a fact-based motion picture should and shouldn't do.
		Morris also eschews the standard practice of superimposed captions to identify who's speaking, eliminating another layer of artifice between us and the subject, and forcing us to figure out who they are based on what they have to say.
		Morris stands as a maverick innovator not only because he dares to be bold and exciting, but also because he dares to be boring.
	www.lardbiscuit.com /lard/errolmorris.html (1679 words)

	Errol Morris \| Documentary Films .NET
		In a effort to push Errol Morris to become a filmmaker, Werner Herzog promised he would eat his own shoe if Morris finished a film.
		Morris did, and Herzog did eat the shoe at a screening.
		Errol Morris working with NFL and Reebok on commercials.
	www.documentaryfilms.net /index.php/category/errol-morris (221 words)

	Transom Guests: Errol Morris
		Recently, Morris was highly praised for his short film that ran at the front of this year's Academy Awards, where he asked an admixture of anonymous and well known people outside the movie business to talk about what they love about movies.
		Errol Morris created one of the most highly regarded films of 1997, the critically acclaimed "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control." Linking the fascinating, yet seemingly unrelated stories of: a lion tamer; an expert on the African mole-rat; a topiary gardener who carves giant animals out of hedges; and an MIT scientist who designs robots.
		Morris' work received a full retrospective in November 1999 at the Museum of Modern Art in 1999 and he was given a special tribute at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001.
	www.transom.org /guests/specialguests/errolmorris.html (896 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Errol Morris
		Morris: And I believe McNamara agreed to an interview because, whether this is true or not, I think it most likely is true: He saw this as part of the publicity for the new book.
		Morris: I mean, if the idea of expecting McNamara to get down on his knees and beg forgiveness for his sins from the American public is what people have in mind, this is just not going to happen.
		Morris: Because the movie, you know, in some sense, is from his perspective, and oddly enough he does not talk--he talks about the terrible tragedy for the Vietnamese people, but he doesn't quite talk about it the same way as he talks about the firebombing.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.22.04/mcnamara-0404-extra.html (3467 words)

	Errol Morris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Errol Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American Academy Award winning documentary film director.
		As an undergrad Morris attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating in 1969 with a B.A. in history.
		Morris began researching the case because it related to Dr. Grigson; he was at first unconvinced of Adams' innocence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Errol_Morris (2653 words)

	"The Documentarian Becomes the Documented, Part Two": Film Freak Central Interviews Errol Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Working backwards, finding Errol Morris' first two films was extremely difficult in the years before DVD and the blossoming of the Internet as the world's finest rummage sale, but the picture made enough of an impression on me that I spent the next six months tracking them down.
		Morris is an extremely gifted filmmaker, his first three pictures forming a vital heartland trilogy bound by the essential American desire to make a story of their lives no matter how gothic, no matter how Byzantine.
		If there's a common thread to Morris' work, it's his ability to find subjects who tell themselves wonderful stories about their own lives--it's altogether possible that the more of Morris' films we see, the more intimately we glimpse the inner workings of a great filmmaker, and of how great, troubling films are made.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /notes/emorrisinterview.htm (2658 words)

	The Errol Morris Collection Reviewed by Alejandro Adams / The Digital Filmmaker /
		Morris, at the time a 32-year-old graduate student, may have been expressing a sort of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I sentiment, understanding that both of these young men had forfeited (slightly) more glamorous aspirations to help out with the family business, a dead-end in terms of job advancement and, it appears, job fulfillment.
		One good piece of ammunition in the argument that Morris belittles his subjects is that he seems to hang on malapropisms and muddled phraseologies with a sort of uninhibited glee (“glee” might be too wholesome a word; it’s akin to schadenfreude).
		Morris cared enough about the case to testify (with the astounding result that Adams was exonerated), but the film itself doesn’t have any heart.
	digitalfilmmaker.net /dv/features/errolmorrisDVD/index.html (2450 words)

	Errol Morris
		Errol Morris has a similar but even more daunting task: Conceive the idea, write it in your head as you assemble footage, then create a documentary that redefines the genre.
		Complementing Morris on his unique approach to filmmaking will elicit a heartfelt “awwww,” and generous smile, but, indicative of the complexity of his work onscreen, the reply tends to be a miniature essay that shifts and deepens.
		Morris, similar to the good writer who creates dimensionality in character, comprehends that the notion of pure evil, in either a historical figure or written character, is stereotypical, inherently limited and a dishonest depiction of human nature.
	www.absolutewrite.com /screenwriting/errol_morris.htm (1042 words)

	Errol Morris Is "Fast, Cheap, & Out Of Control"
		Morris uses a collage of different color film stocks, speeds, and angles, to create a beautifully open-ended portrait of these men of nature and of our own complex existence.
		Errol Morris: I've always been fascinated by the idea of independent film because it's a term that's been used in so many different ways to refer to so many different things.
		Morris: However low it is on the budget scale, it usually represents more money than people can come by anyway.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_morris_errol_971002.html (1103 words)

	Amazon.com: Errol Morris' First Person - The Complete Series: DVD: 'errol Morris First Person (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Errol Morris' "First Person" Complete Series Errol Morris brings his unrivalled talents to the small screen for a stylized series of intimate interviews with a unique and fascinating array of people.
		Morris uses a combination of interviews, archival footage, footage his team creates to illustrate points and clips from old television and movies to tell compelling, unusual, informative stories.
		Morris' films are all the more compelling and watch able because of the subject matter; he finds strange people and gets them to reveal their interesting lives.
	www.amazon.com /Errol-Morris-First-Person-Complete/dp/B00094AS7W (2338 words)

	Errol Morris
		Adweek named Errol Morris as one of the brightest talents in advertising today.
		Nancy Ramsey quotes Errol Morris in her New York Times piece about the future of political film making.
		Errol Morris and Kurt Andersen looked at how writers and artists reshape history last week on Studio 360.
	www.errolmorris.com (838 words)

	Amazon.ca: Gates of Heaven: DVD: Errol Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Errol Morris launched his fascinating, Oscar-winning career with this instant classic, a documentary about pet cemeteries.
		As Morris gets his people to soliloquize for the neutral camera, they confirm that their love for their pets is utterly sincere--and that eccentricity runs deep in the American grain.
		During this tense transition, filmmaker Morris meets a collection of eccentric cemetery operators and anguished animal-lovers and elicits a meditation on love and loneliness that's "strange, chilling [and] appallingly funny" (Newsweek).
	www.amazon.ca /Gates-Heaven-Errol-Morris/dp/B00094AS6I (837 words)

	A conversation with Errol Morris - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		M ore often than not, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris' camera is squarely aimed at the fringe-dwellers of society: men and women leading largely anonymous lives that, upon deeper inspection, become engagingly bizarre, endlessly fascinating and totally engrossing.
		In his films "Gates of Heaven" (1978) and "Vernon, Florida" (1981), Morris investigated the stories behind two pet cemeteries and a community of eccentric swamp-dwellers, respectively.
		He was so taken with Gein's bizarre series of crimes that Morris dropped out of the doctorate program in philosophy at Berkeley to relocate to Plainfield, Wis., the killer's hometown, and moved in with Gein's next-door neighbors.
	dir.salon.com /people/feature/2000/01/29/morris/index.html (1004 words)

	War! What Is It Good For? Errol Morris Finds Out With "Fog of War"
		When I asked Morris -- the luminary nonfiction filmmaker responsible for such landmark works as "Gates of Heaven" and "The Thin Blue Line" -- to elucidate on his premise, he explains, "For all practical purposes, we have the same DNA that we had 10,000 years ago.
		The most recent interview, conducted on the phone from Morris' Cambridge offices, took place as the director was working on a new commercial spot.
		Morris: I would say yes and no. There are certainly big issues at stake in both of the stories.
	www.indiewire.com /people/people_031229morris.html (2334 words)

	Errol Morris talks to NewEnglandFilm.com about his television series "First Person", his process, and ...
		Errol Morris talks to NewEnglandFilm.com about his television series, his process, and "labels," in part one of our two-part interview.
		Errol Morris diverges from the formula of documentary filmmaking.
		Cambridge filmmaker Errol Morris sits down in his office and opens a can of Coke.
	www.newenglandfilm.com /news/archives/01june/errol.htm (1048 words)

	'boards - Greasing the Ad Engines: Errol Morris
		His proven documentary filmmaking expertise aside, director Errol Morris says he learns as much from shooting ads as he does from features.
		For one, Morris believes the line of demarcation between actors and real people is a naïve construct.
		An opera fan himself, Morris located a member of the Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York and was also involved in selecting the aria, a 1905 Caruso recording of Di Quella Pira from Il Trovatore.
	www.boardsmag.com /articles/magazine/20000801/errolmorris.html (623 words)

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		As presented by McNamara, through Morris, “the fog of war”; usefully deflects attention from clear and unpleasant facts entirely unobscured by fog.
		Morris had no cinematic mechanism at his disposal to counter McNamara's version of events.
		Secretary of State Colin Powell should be forced to view the new Errol Morris "Fog of War" film.
	www.lycos.com /info/fog--errol-morris.html (247 words)

	RLM: Errol Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gates of Heaven (1978) -- Maybe my least favorite of the Morris documentaries (which means it's still great), but it has that unique Morris approach that I love, and a style that was perfected in Vernon, Florida before he moved on to more ambitious ways of making documentaries.
		Morris has explained that he himself hates it and that he directed it in name only, but that everyone else basically made this movie, so I forgive him.
		All of the usual Morris stuff is throw in (dramatically-falling dominoes comes to mind), which might almost make this seem like Morris doing a parody of himself (or at worst running out of new ideas), except that you're too busy being captivated by the interviews themselves to notice or care.
	www.rustyspell.com /movies/errolmorris.html (628 words)

	Errol Morris on Mr. Death--The Lybarger Links Interview
		Much of Morris’ fascination with Leuchter is rooted in the fact that Leuchter doesn’t fit the stereotype of a Holocaust denier.
		Morris includes Leuchter detractors, such as historian Robert Jan van Pelt and James Roth, the chemist who examined brick samples Leuchter collected in Auschwitz.
		Morris avoids attacking or interrupting the people he interviewed, even when their remarks border on the outrageous or the offensive.
	www.tipjar.com /dan/errolmorris.htm (1077 words)

	Nathan Callahan / Errol Morris's Oscar
		Morris, of course, has yet to be nominated.
		After all, the Academy is always a little behind the curve when it comes to recognizing artistic genius and Morris has already directed a string of masterpieces, including Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time, Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, and Mr.
		Speaking of out of control, “McNamara’s story is about things slipping out of control,” Morris said in an interview on Weekly Signals — a KUCI radio show I co-host with Mike Kaspar.
	www.nathancallahan.com /mcnamara.html (805 words)

	Errol Morris \| The A.V. Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Morris was a philosophy student and an artistic dilettante in the mid-'70s when he met German director Werner Herzog, who encouraged Morris to pursue his interest in human oddity by making movies.
		Morris had planned to start either with a film about serial killer Ed Gein or a film about people who butchered themselves for insurance money, but he got sidetracked by a news item about a mass exhumation at a California pet cemetery.
		Morris recently spoke with The A.V. Club about the differences between his early career and now, and about his bill-paying forays into the world of advertising—including his set of 2004 pitches for Senator John Kerry.
	avclub.com /content/node/40555/print (4022 words)

	Robert McNamara, Errol Morris return to Berkeley to share lessons learned from "Fog of War"
		Errol Morris dropped out of UC Berkeley's doctorate program in philosophy to move to Wisconsin and study grave-robber-turned-murderer Ed Gein.
		For the film, Morris interviewed the then-85-year-old McNamara using a device he calls the Interrotron, a two-camera and Teleprompter arrangement that forces the subject to maintain eye contact with the camera, and thus the audience, at all times.
		Morris is happy to acknowledge the echoes, but McNamara will not give them voice.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2004/02/05_fogofwar.shtml (2293 words)

	MoveOn.org Political Action: Presidential Primary Survey
		Academy award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris has agreed to produce a series of ads for MoveOn.org Political Action, featuring authentic American voices committed to change.
		Errol will be selecting a dozen people from those who respond for on-camera interviews.
		A Note From Errol Morris, director of the academy award-winning documentary Fog of War.
	pol.moveon.org /morrissurvey.html (515 words)

	Amazon.com: The Errol Morris DVD Collection (Gates of Heaven/The Thin Blue Line/Vernon, Florida): DVD: Joe Payne,Snake ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Errol Morris has a real knack for getting people to just talk, and talk, and talk for long periods of time.
		Morris just plants his camera and listens as people go off on tangents that are seemingly unrelated to the subject of the documentary but are mini-films unto themselves (e.g.
		Morris uses re-enactments along with his interviews to tell the story of a murdered policeman and the man arrested for the crime.
	www.amazon.com /Morris-Collection-Heaven-Vernon-Florida/dp/B00094AS8G (1481 words)

	FILM: Beyond the Camera: Interview with Errol Morris
		Errol Morris was born in Hewlett, Long Island, New York in 1948.
		The following interview between William Phillips and Errol Morris was conducted on March 20, 1998 over the telephone.
		Errol Morris The answer is that it was helpful.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /phillips-film-1e/morris1.htm (785 words)

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