Errol Morris DVD Collection Director: Errol Morris
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- DVD Release Date: 07/26/2005
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Side #1 -- Gates of Heaven
1. Main Title/Inspiration [5:46]
2. Glue Factory [4:56]
3. Growing the Trade [5:01]
4. Cat in the Dryer [5:23]
5. Singing for His Supper [4:59]
6. Exhumation [5:39]
7. "These Kids" [5:33]
8. Bubbling Well [5:53]
9. The Meaning of Life [3:56]
10. A Fine Education [5:03]
11. At the Gates of Heaven [5:28]
12. "Mind Over Matter" [5:08]
13. Possibilities [5:37]
14. Alone [4:31]
15. The Power of Prayer [5:18]
16. Hopes and Dreams [4:13]
Side #2 -- The Thin Blue Line
1. Main Title/"It Happened" [4:13]
2. Officer Down [1:40]
3. A Casual Interrogation [3:30]
4. What She Remembered [6:34]
5. A Break in Vidor [3:27]
6. David Harris' Version [2:46]
7. ...And Randall Adams' [7:30]
8. A Vega or a Comet [2:36]
9. Enter the Lawyers [9:16]
10. Two Hours Late [6:01]
11. Mrs. Miller's Story [6:51]
12. "They Were Scum" [2:52]
13. The Third Witness [2:50]
14. The Killer Shrink [7:17]
15. Death and the DA [3:12]
16. No New Trial [6:34]
17. Harris Never Changed [8:29]
18. Caught Up at Last [4:08]
19. A Nice Kid [4:13]
20. Last Interview/Credits [7:19]
Side #3 -- Vernon, Florida
1. Main Title/Home [3:33]
2. Gobble, Gobble [3:42]
3. Connected to the Backbone [3:07]
4. Bridge Game [3:36]
5. 114 Perch [3:02]
6. High and Dry [3:32]
7. Playing Possum [3:40]
8. Trophies [3:04]
9. History Lessons [2:53]
10. He Did it His Way [2:45]
11. Praying for a Van [3:05]
12. "A Therefore Experience" [4:22]
13. Lost in the Woods [2:33]
14. Luck [4:29]
15. "That Just Happened" [3:10]
16. Growing Sand [4:55]
Editorial Reviews
This three-disc set compiles three early efforts by Errol Morris, one of cinema’s most gifted documentary storytellers. Fascinated by America’s unusual mixture of the bizarre and the banal, Morris at the outset of his filmmaking career trained his camera on people and places seldom covered by mainstream media outlets. In Gates of Heaven (1978), he visits a pet cemetery in Southern California and films bereaved owners who go to extraordinary (and occasionally hilarious) lengths to memorialize their beloved animals. Morris allows plenty of room for his subjects to drift off on various tangents, making for some of the film's most memorable scenes. Even better is Vernon, Florida (1981). Morris visited the titular town because it had the highest rate of insurance fraud involving dismemberment for profit -- but stayed when he found the residents to be some of the most genuinely quirky folks ever caught on film. There’s the zookeeper who “kick-starts” his turtles, the worm farmer upset that his prized, imported night crawlers have been lost to nearby swamps, an elderly couple who believe sand grows in a jar, and an obsessive but singularly ineffectual turkey hunter. Morris’s ongoing interest in the country’s less affluent, marginalized citizens veers into social commentary with The Thin Blue Line (1988), an impassioned look at a luckless hitchhiker sentenced to life in prison after being convicted -- wrongly, as it turned out -- of murdering a Texas police officer. A highly charged example of advocacy journalism, this award-winning film persuaded officials to reopen the case and eventually resulted in the prisoner’s exoneration. Morris is a master craftsman; he knows how to precisely assemble disparate pieces of film to create a compelling narrative and evoke the emotional response he’s aiming for. He is at turns fascinated and provocative, and his cinematic storytelling reflects singularly obsessive passion for his subjects, whether good, bad, or just plain peculiar. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble
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