Errol Morris

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Career

He became a regular at the Pacific Film Archive after leaving UC Berkeley. Later, as Tom Luddy, the archive's director, remembered: "He was a film noir nut." We weren't showing the true film noir, according to Mr. We weren't even showing the true film noir. So I requested him to write the program notes. To the point, he was sneaking into the films and denying that he was sneaking in. I told him that if he was sneaking in, he should at least admit to doing it."

Morris was inspired by Hitchcock's Psychoana, and he spent 1975 in Plainfield, Wisconsin. He conducted multiple interviews with Ed Gein, the notorious serial murderer who lived at Mendota State Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin, when he was in Wisconsin. He continued to plan with German film director Werner Herzog, whom Tom Luddy introduced to Morris in the summer of 1975, to expose Gein's mother's suspicion that Gein himself had already dug her up. Herzog arrived on time, but Morris had second thoughts and was not present. Herzog did not open the grave. Morris then returned to Plainfield, this time for nearly a year and hundreds of hours of interviews. Despite knowing that he had planned to write a book or film a film (which he'd refer to as Digging Up the Past), Morris never finished his Ed Gein project.

Herzog returned to Plainfield in the fall of 1976, this time to film part of his film Stroszek.

Morris borrowed $2,000 from Herzog and used it to fly to Vernon, Florida. Vernon residents were dubbed "Nub City" because they participated in a particularly brutal form of insurance fraud in which they deliberately amputated a leg to obtain the insurance money. Morris' second documentary was about the town and bore its name, but no mention was made of Vernon as "Nub City" in the script, but rather the town's residents' idiosyncrasies. Morris made this recommendation because he faced death threats while doing research; the town's residents were concerned that Morris would reveal their information.

After two weeks in Vernon, Morris returned to Berkeley and started writing a script for a piece of fiction he referred to as Nub City. He came across the headline in the San Francisco Chronicle, "450 Dead Pets Going to Napa Valley." Morris left for Napa Valley and started filming Gates of Heaven, his first feature since 1978. If Morris finished the film, Herzog said he'd eat his shoe. Herzog kept the bet by cooking and eating his shoe, which was chronicled in Les Blank's short film Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.

In the spring of 1981, Gates of Heaven was limited to a select group. Roger Ebert, a critic, was and remained a fan of the film, with the film being included on his all-time top ten best films list. Morris returned to Vernon in 1979 and 1980, renting a house in town and conducting interviews with the town's residents. The 1981 New York Film Festival was held in Vernon, Florida. "A film as odd and mysterious as its subjects," Newsweek described it as "a film as strange and enigmatic as its subjects, and it was quite memorable." Poor distribution of the film, like Gates of Heaven, was detrimental to the film. In 1987, it was on video and DVD in 2005.

Morris, who graduated from Vernon, Florida, tried to get funds for a number of initiatives. This Road tale was about an interstate highway in Minnesota; one project was about Robert Golka, the creator of laser-driven fireballs in Utah; and another was about Centralia, Pennsylvania, where an inextinguishable subterranean fire started in 1962. In 1983, he received funds to write a script about John and Jim Pardue, Missouri bank robbers who had murdered their father and grandmother and robbed five banks. Morris' pitch read: "The big bank robbery sprees always take place at a time when something is going wrong in the world." Bonnie and Clyde were apolitical, but it's impossible to imagine them without the Depression as a backdrop. The Pardue brothers were apolitical, but without Vietnam, it's impossible to imagine them. Morris wanted Tom Waits and Mickey Rourke to appear the brothers, and he wrote the script, but the venture fell apart. Morris worked on scripts for a number of other projects, including a pair of ill-fated Stephen King adaptations.

Morris married Julia Sheehan in 1984, who had met in Wisconsin while researching Ed Gein and other serial murderers. He'd later recall a brief chat with Julia: "I was talking to a mass murderer but I was thinking of you," he said right away, afraid that it may not have been as loving as he had expected. Julia was genuinely flattered: "I thought, really, that was one of the nicest things anyone ever told to me." After that, it was impossible to go out with other guys."

Morris became involved in Dr. James Grigson, a Dallas psychiatrist. The death penalty can only be released if the jury is satisfied that the defendant is not guilty, but if he is not put to death, the defendant will commit further violent crimes in the future. Grigson had been ineffective for 15 years in jail, and he almost gave the same damning testimony every time, often saying that it is "one hundred percent certain" that the defendant will die again. This resulted in Grigson being dubbed "Dr. "Dr." in honor of his nickname. "Mother" is the product of "death." Morris, 36-year-old Randall Dale Adams, was the subject of his upcoming film, thanks in Grigson.

Adams was serving a life term after being transferred from a death sentence for the 1976 murder of Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer, on a legal basis. Adams told Morris that he was framed and that David Harris, who was on hand at the time of the shooting and was the sole witness in the trial, had actually killed Wood. Morris began investigating the matter because it was related to Dr. Griggson. Adams was the first person to be unconvinced of his innocence. Morris was no longer positive after reading the transcripts of the trial and meeting David Harris at a bar.

Morris was working as a private investigator for a well-known private detective firm that specialized in Wall Street investigations at the time. Morris began investigating the case in earnest, bringing together his skills as an investigator and his obsessions with murder, plot, and epistemology. Unedited interviews in which the prosecution's witnesses essentially contradicted themselves were used as evidence in Adams' 1986 habeas corpus hearing to determine if he would receive a fresh trial. David Harris pleaded guilty to Wood killing in a roundabout manner.

Although Adams was finally found innocent after years of being dealt with by the legal system, the judge in the habeas corpus hearing stated that "much could be said about those videotape interviews, but nothing that would have any bearing on the matter before this court." Nevertheless, The Thin Blue Line, as Morris' film would have been called, has been widely accepted as the main reason behind the freedom of Randall Adams. "The Thin Blue Line is two films grafted together," Morris said of the film. On a very basic level, it is either he did it or didn't he? The Thin Blue Line, on another level, is an essay about false history. A whole group of people believed a version of the world that was entirely inaccurate, and my accidental investigation of the situation provided a different account of what happened."

The Thin Blue Line is one of the most acclaimed documentaries ever produced. According to a Washington Post poll, the film made more than dozens of critics' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film this year. Both the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics voted it the best documentary of the year award. Despite widespread praise, it was not nominated for an Oscar, which resulted in a small controversy surrounding the academy's nomination procedures. The academy cited the film's genre of "non-fiction" in the film's argument that it was not really a documentary. It was the first of Morris' films to be scored by Philip Glass.

Morris wanted to make a film about Albert Einstein's brain and called Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment to investigate it. Gordon Freeman had acquired the rights to Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time, and Spielberg suggested Morris direct it. Morris decided to direct a documentary adaptation of Hawking's book after he had studied the philosophy of science at Princeton. A brief History of Time by Morris is less an adaptation of Hawking's book than a portrait of the scientist. It incorporates interviews with Hawking, his coworkers, and his families, as well as computer animations and clips from Disney's The Black Hole. Morris said he was "very moved by Hawking as a man," describing him as "impressively likable, perverse, funny...and yes, he is a genius."

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Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control is a comic stripe available in Morris' book. A wild animal trainer, a computer scientist, and a naked mole rat specialist are among the interviewers on our interweaves, as well as a naked mole rat specialist with stock footage, cartoons, and clips from film serials. Roger Ebert said of Morris, "If I had to describe it, I'd say it's about people who are trying to control things: to take on themselves the mantle of God." Morris said there was a "Frankenstein component" in his story, "They're all interested in a very bizarre investigation into life." It sounds revolting if laid out in that way, but there's something sinister in all of the stories, something melancholy as well as funny. Ancestrality is also on the risk. For the end of the film, I showed the gardener clipping the top of his camel, clipping in a glorious light, and then walking away in the rain. This garden is not going to last much longer than the gardener's lifetime, so it will not last much longer than the gardener's lifetime.' Caleb Sampson of the Alloy Orchestra filmed the film and Robert Richardson was filmed by Robert Richardson. Morris dedicated the film to his mother and stepfather, who had just died. Several commentators have rated the film as one of the best films of 1997.

Although Morris is best known as a documentary filmmaker, he also excels as an outstanding producer of television commercials. Morris created a line of television commercials for Apple Computer in 2002 as part of a widely circulated "Switch" campaign. Ex-Windows users were on display in the stores, discussing their various bad experiences that triggered their own personal switches to Macintosh. Ellen Feiss, a high-schooler friend of his son Hamilton Morris's son Hamilton Morris Morris's father, became a Internet meme in one commercial. Morris has produced hundreds of commercials for various companies and products, including Adidas, AIG, Cisco Systems, Citibank, Kimberly-Clark's Depend brand, Levi's, Levi's, Nike, PBS, The Quaker Oats Company, Southern Comfort, Toyota, and Volkswagen. Many of these advertisements are also available on his website.

Morris was commissioned in 2002 to produce a short film for the 75th Academy Awards. He was recruited based on his advertising resume, not his work as a producer of feature-length documentaries. Those interviewed included Laura Bush, Iggy Pop, Kenneth Arrow, and Morris' 15-year-old son Hamilton. Morris was nominated for an Emmy for this short film. This footage was turned into a feature-length film focusing on Donald Trump's interview with Citizen Kane (this segment was later released on Wholphin's second issue). Morris finished second shortlisted for the 79th Academy Awards in 2007, this time interviewing the various candidates and asking them about their Oscar experiences.

Morris received the Academy Award for Best Documentary for The Fog of War in 2003, a film about Robert S. McNamara, the Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. Morris brings out complexities in McNamara's relationship with US General Curtis LeMay during World War II, which influenced McNamara's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. The Fog of War, like his earlier documentary The Thin Blue Line, made heavy use of re-enactments, a tactic that many documentaries had dismissed long before his Oscar victory.

Morris produced another series of commercials in the style of the "Switch" ads in July 2004. This campaign featured Republicans who voted for Kerry in 2004 based on their personal reasons for voting for Kerry. Morris had trouble getting them on the air after they had completed more than 50 commercials. A few of the commercials were eventually on air by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn PAC. Morris also wrote an editorial for The New York Times debating Kerry's ouster from office, addressing the trades and Kerry's losing bid.

Morris produced a string of memorable advertisements for Sharp Electronics in late 2004. The commercials enigmatically portrayed certain scenes from what seemed to be a short story that culminated in a car collapsing into a swimming pond. Each vendor had a slightly different view of the events, and each came with a cryptic web link. The weblink led to a bogus website promoting a prize to anyone who would find the elusive location of some valuable urns. It was actually an alternate reality game. On Morris' website, the original advertisements can be found.

Morris produced a string of commercials for Reebok, starring six key National Football League (NFL) players. During the 2006 NFL season, the 30-second promotional clips were shown.

Morris said in 2013 that he had made around 1,000 sales during his career. Since then, he has been in the industry, including a 2019 effort for Chipotle.

When Morris decided to film commercials for disgraced medical technology company Theranos, he was embroiled in controversy. The commercials are promoting the benefits of Theranos' planned single drop blood draws, which were being carried out in Walgreens wellness centers in California and Arizona and are set to launch nationally. Theranos was later found to be a dishonest business, and Morris declined to comment about him at all, even off the record. "To me, what really is interesting about Elizabeth [Holmes] is an affront," Morris said in a 2019 New Yorker interview. [...] Was it estimation? I have a difficult time squaring it with my own experience. Could I have been deceived, delusional? You betcha. I'm no different than the next guy. I'd like to believe I'm a little different. "I'm still fascinated by her."

A new Morris documentary was shown at various film festivals in early 2010, including Toronto's International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Telluride Film Festival. Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming who was arrested in absentia for the abduction and indecent assault of a Mormon missionary in England during 1977, was the subject of the film, Tabloid.

Morris has also written long-form journalism, reporting on various areas of concern and published on The New York Times website. Penguin Press published a collection of these essays titled Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography on September 1, 2011. Morris' documentary short "The Umbrella Man" about the Kennedy assassination on the New York Times website in November 2011.

Morris published his second book, A Wilderness of Error: Jeffrey MacDonald's Case, about Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret doctor who was found guilty of murdering his wife and two children on February 17, 1970. Morris became involved in the case in the early 1990s and finds that MacDonald is not guilty after doing extensive analysis. "What happened here is wrong," Morris said in a interview in July 2013 before the case's reopening: "What happened here is wrong." In these circumstances, it is immoral to convict a man. I'll be a happy camper if I can help correct that." Macdonald is not guilty, according to him, but believes it is likely that Macdonald is guilty.

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