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Chuck Klosterman's New Book Out This Week

JakeWalker — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:58:13 -0800

Chuck Klosterman's new book of essays Eating The Dinosaur is out this week. You can read the first chapter, which features interviews with Ira Glass and Errol Morris. Chuck appeared on Bill Simmons' podcast [warning, browser resize] today.

Gates of Heaven

vronsky — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:20:51 -0800

Clips from the Errol Morris documentary Gates of Heaven which Roger Ebert named one of the ten best films of all time. Lady in the Doorway ll Music Man ll Gates of Heaven ll Couples Scene ll Humans cannot be this way ll Say it out loud

A Photographic Mystery.

sarabeth — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:26:22 -0800

Whose Father Was He? The soldier’s body was found near the center of Gettysburg with no identification — no regimental numbers on his cap, no corps badge on his jacket, no letters, no diary. Nothing save for an ambrotype (an early type of photograph popular in the late 1850s and 1860s) of three small children clutched in his hand. Errol Morris presents the Civil War-era mystery of a fallen soldier and a found photograph. [via]

Fuzz It Up

i_am_a_Jedi — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:09:53 -0800

The Most Curious Thing (follow-up of sorts) by Errol Morris. Fuzzed up indeed.

"I know it looks bad."

timsteil — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:10:46 -0800

The Woman Behind the Camera. Film maker Errol Morris, and the New Yorker's Philip Gourevitch look at Sabrina Harman, photographer, and Army MP in Iraq. "Harman liked to have her picture taken, almost always showing the same smile and thumbs-up sign. "I guess we weren't really thinking, Hey this guy was just murdered" she said of the corpse photographs. "I know it looks bad."

Errol Morris Talks With Werner Herzog

bobobox — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:54:11 -0800

Errol Morris talks with Werner Herzog

Balls on or Balls off?

Horace Rumpole — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:32:52 -0800

Which came first: Cannonballs On or Cannonballs Off? Errol Morris asks a seemingly simple but perhaps unanswerable question about the nature of photographic evidence. (previously) It's a long piece, so I'll mention that at the end Morris says "I would like to propose a contest to the Times’ readership — an invitation to order the photographs and to propose reasons why they must be in that order. Anything is fair game. Any kind of evidence may be considered, and I will discuss the solutions in a followup article. Good luck." There are currently 640 comments.

Errol Morris, talking pictures.

From Bklyn — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:23:35 -0800

Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker, talking pictures in the N.Y.Times. The comments are not bad either. (previously)

Errol Morris Clip Festival

Dave Faris — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:00:13 -0800

A Brief History of Errol Morris. His landmark televison interview/documentary series called "First Person" (ex. Rick Rosner : One in a Million Trillion [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], an interview with a man who went back to high school three times just to try to get it right; Denny Fitch : Leaving the Earth [2, 3, 4, 5, 6], where a pilot tells a harrowing tale of his passenger plane crash; and Andrew Cappocia : Mr. Debt [2 , 3], an interview with a passionate man about credit card reform.) ... see also: Fog of War [excerpt], an award winning full-length feature about Robert McNamara, US Director of Defense during the Viet Nam War; as well as some very compelling commercials [2,3, 4, 5] that you may remember, and an interview with the man himself. (Previously)

I Still Work at a Bar

basicchannel — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:13:19 -0800

Christopher Michael Langan is a bouncer by trade, a genius in his spare time (.pdf). Errol Morris documents the essence of a working class hero.

I Think There Should Be Real War Against Bonanza

StopMakingSense — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 11:29:10 -0800

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

A great rise... a modest fall.

hypocritical ross — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:46:12 -0800

Donald Trump discusses the major thematic elements of Citizen Kane. Featured in the awesome new... err... issue?... of Wholphin.

The ghosts

matteo — Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:40:57 -0800

"We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why." In The Fog of War, a revelatory new documentary about his life and times, a disquieted Robert McNamara implores us to understand why he did the things he did as an Air Force lieutenant colonel who helped plan the firebombing of Japanese cities in World War II, and, later, as a secretary of defense and pivotal decision-maker during Vietnam, which some Americans came to call "McNamara's War." One of the movie's most powerful passages covers McNamara's little-known service in World War II, when he was attached to Gen. Curtis LeMay's 21st Bomber Command stationed on the Pacific island of Guam. LeMay's B-29s showered 67 Japanese cities with incendiary bombs in 1945, softening up the country for the two atomic blasts to come. McNamara was a senior planning officer. Story by "Killing Fields"' Sydney Schanberg in the American Prospect (more inside)