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Errol Morris: Interviews is an ungodly and humorous collection of conversations with a acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Morris (b. 1948) has combined some of America's many innovative, durability cinematic works. Generations of filmmakers, scholars, cinephiles, and film fans spin again and again to such works as The Thin Blue Line; Fast, Cheap and Out of Control; Academy Award-winner The Fog of War; and Standard Operating Procedure.
Throughout his career--which has enclosed stints as a private eye, film programmer, and blurb director--Morris has honed a singular grave and technical cinematic approach. A Morris film is characterized by heated personal interviews; thespian re-creations; a haunting, modernist low-pitched atmosphere; and a penetrating clarity of complexity, irony, and black humor. With any new film, Morris hurdles and redefines what a documentary can be. This volume facilities extraordinary interviews from via his career, as good as intimate, never-before-published discussions.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #142714 in Books
- Published on: 2009-12-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .74" h x 5.94" w x 8.96" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
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From a Inside Flap
Interviews with a creator of The Thin Blue Line; Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control; The Fog of War; and Standard Operating Procedure
About a Author
Livia Bloom is a film curator and a writer to a collection Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary. Her essay is published frequently in Cinema Scope .
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4 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
A profitable apparatus for any Errol Morris fan
By J. Weston
While not being perfect, this book is nonetheless an intensely engaging collection of interviews and Q & A's with filmmaker Errol Morris. It is transparent that Morris is intensely decorous and well-read and he provides many engaging tidbits about a creation of his films as good as theories and notions about film-making and life in general. The usually downside to this book is that it is simply a collection of interviews from via his career. So there is a tiny volume of exercise - we hear some of a same canned responses to questions, though not adequate to get in a approach of it being a good read. The many profitable territory of a book, and indeed Morris's favorite interview, is a many extensive (if rather typo-ridden) talk in a book (66 pages) with Paul Cronin. It done me consider that Cronin should continue with this work, and strength out an whole book on Morris. Also enclosed is a really engaging contention between Morris and Werner Herzog, both filmmakers being equally formidable to conclude in a a cinematic lexicon. Overall, a contingency for any Morris fan.
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