 Errol Morris |
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RETROSPECTIVE AND PREMIERE A BRIEF HISTORY OF ERROL MORRIS WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, JANUARY 19-21, 2000 SEE LINKS BELOW FOR TICKET PRICES AUDITORIUM |
A documentarian with a virtuoso style, Errol Morris has created a genre all his own. While a philosophy doctoral candidate at the University of California-Berkeley, Morris discovered the Pacific Film Archive and became a student of the cinema. Approaching his film subjects with a philosopher's perspective, Morris made Gates of Heaven (1978) and Vernon, Florida (1981), taking everyday people's stories and weaving them into compelling character portraits. Later his landmark The Thin Blue Line (1988) defied and redefined the boundaries of documentary film and became a major influence on the wave of independent films--both fiction and nonfiction--that followed in the 1990s. He will present his latest work at the Walker, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., in which the director takes on his most striking subject yet. Check out the film's official website at http://www.mrdeath.net. Spinning strange but true stories into distinctive narratives, Morris frequently interweaves interview footage with gorgeously shot dramatizations. Rather than telling the straight story, he tells a more intriguing one.
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