Tabloid (2010)

Director:
Errol Morris

"Tabloid stories centered on the activities of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen with a self-reported IQ of 168, over her life are presented. Beyond her beauty pageant days, McKinney first hit the tabloid pages in Britain in what was largely coined "The Case of the Manacled Mormon". As reported by McKinney in interviews, she, a southern Christian originally from North Carolina, got involved with a group of Mormons in her pursuit of true love, without knowing they were Mormons or anything about Mormonism. She fell in love with one of those Mormons, Kirk Anderson, the two who were to be married. After he disappeared without saying anything to her, she, with the help of a private investigator and some male friends and new acquaintances, tracked him down in England where he was being brainwashed by Mormon elders, that brainwashing which included the notion of sex with and marriage to her, a non-Mormon, as taboo. He left with her voluntarily, she who took him away to a secluded cottage..."

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The Look of Silence (2014)

Director:
Joshua Oppenheimer

WERNER HERZOG and ERROL MORRIS production!

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"An Indonesian man with a communist background killed when the "Communist" purge occured in 1965. After that, his remained family members lived in fear and silence. His brother visits the suspected killers and their companions at the present time as an eye-examiner. These meetings uncover the details of the killings, which possibly will give them the answer from the questions about the real executor and the killing process. He forced to face his own fear and meet the people whom possibly responsible for his brother's death."

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The Umbrella Man (2011)

Director:
Errol Morris

Kratki dokumentarac kultnog reditelja Errola Morrisa bavi se najnovijim filmskim apdejtom čuvene teorije zavere vezane za atentat na JFK-a. Između ostalog novinar Josiah Thompson koji već decenijama prati sve vezano za ovaj slučaj ovde posebno obraća pažnju na video snimke incidenta, a posebno na Zapruderov film, te tako pokreće jedno pitanje koje je iz nekog razloga do sada svima izmicalo u dokumentarcima: ko je misteriozni čovek u kišnom mantilu sa otvorenim crnim kišobranom koji se nalazio na trotoaru odmah ispod ozloglašenog grassy knoll-a, ako pritom znamo da je tog dana u Dalasu sunce pržilo na najjače? Da li se može postaviti teorija da je upravo taj čovek second shooter u toj unakrsnoj vatri koja je usledila, i da popularna teorija o atentatoru štekovanom iza tarabe na grassy knoll konačno pada u vodu? Dakle, jako zanimljivo, zar ne? Inače, pogledao sam 90% dokumentaraca vezanih za atentat na JFK-a, a ima ih bogami baš dosta (ovaj sam jedva iskopao jer nisam ni znao da postoji), pa čak neke i rado repriziram, što znači da mi ova priča nikada neće dosaditi što je u neku ruku i logično jer slučaj je realno ubedljivo najveća misterija 20. veka za koju su vezane nebrojene teorije zavere, i evo tek 9/11 je pretekao ovo ludilo po filmovima i teorijama, ali to je već neka druga priča, skroz drugi koncept, a i pripada novom milenijumu. Znači svakako preporučujem ovih 6 minuta a posebno jer se radi o Errolu Morrisu, jednom od 3 najjača svetska autora dokumentarnih filmova, koga možda najbolje poznajemo po masterpisu "The Thin Blue Line" iz 1988.

"Short film documentary about the mysterious umbrella man that appears in the Zapruder film during the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1963, November 22."

First Person (2000)

Director :
Errol Morris

Serijal od 17 kratkih dokumentaraca o neobicnim ljudima i njihovim zivotnim pricama, hobijima, i tako nekim suludim akcijama. Ja sam stigo do 10. price i mogu da kazem da je svaka zanimljiva za sebe, jos plus traju po 25 minuta i to je onako bas taman-potaman. Izdvojio bih 9. epizodu, "Smiling in a Jar", o direktorki jednog skroz bizarnog muzeja, i 10. epizodu, "You're Soaking In It", pricu o zeni koja drzi agenciju za cishcenje mesta zlochina, gde ona prica o tim svojim iskustvima i razlozima zasto je uopste pocela da se bavi tako zajebanim poslom. Errol Moris je bas lepo osmislio koncept, osoba sedi sama u prostoriji ispred kamere, a on postavlja pitanja sa nekog drugog mesta, tako da se ljudi skroz opuste jer nije klasican intervju nego kao da direktno razgovaraju sa kamerom. Jako chudan trip, a i mnogo dobro je rezirano, ima cak i onaj umetnicki fazon koji ja bas nesto i ne jurim posebno kada su dokumentarci u pitanju ali ovde to skroz lezi.

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"Amazing series primarily using Errol Morris' invention the Interrotron for unusual people to tell their outré stories directly into the camera to the viewer. Almost every half-hour documentary episode focused on 1 person, especially scientists, criminals, cranks, plus everyday folks in strange circumstances. First season seen on Bravo, second on IFC. Having a roaming crew at the ready led Morris to start filming his Academy Award winning documentary on Robert McNamara, "The Fog of War." Some subjects came from Morris' back-file, others were newly uncovered. First season included the autistic woman scientist who designs humane slaughterhouses (Temple Grandin, "Stairway to Heaven"), the parrot whose testimony in a trial exonerated a man wrongly accused of murdering his owner, the ex-lobster fisherman devoted to being the first to see a live giant squid ("Eyeball to Eyeball"), and a serial killer groupie. Second season had some 2 parters such as a haunted passenger who landed a crashing jet liner, also the dot.com entrepreneur who believes first mate Gilligan is the new messiah ! Errol Morris hoped to continue "First Person," but funding was unavailable."

* "Stairway to Heaven" — Temple Grandin, autistic college professor and expert on humane cattle slaughter techniques
"What would it be like if I actually was a cattle? Because it's important not to be anthropomorphic."
Temple Grandin, university professor and diagnosed autistic, has designed 1/3 of the slaughter houses in the United States. She's renown for her design "stairway to heaven", a curving high-wall ramp system that utilizes optical illusions to lead livestock calmly from the pen to the bolt gun and ultimately to a humane death. Temple Grandin understands and relates more easily to cattle than people. At home, she spends some of her most peaceful moments in a customized cattle "squeeze chute" — ordinarily used for immobilizing animals for inoculations.

* "The Killer Inside Me" — Sondra London, serial killer groupie and writer
"When you're dealing with a serial killer day in and day out..."
Sondra London had lost contact with her high school sweetheart, Gerald. The years had passed and she was in an unhappy marriage and a dead end job writing word processing manuals. But Gerald was in the newspaper — as the suspected killer of forty women. There always had been something about Gerald Schaefer. They rekindled their affair. Sondra and Gerald eventually broke up for good. But there's a new man in her life, Danny Rollins — the Gainesville Murder. They're engaged.

* "I Dismember Mama" — Saul Kent, promoter of cryogenic immortality

"Immortality is my short term goal..."
Saul Kent didn't make the usual funeral arrangements for his mother. He wanted her severed head cryonically preserved -frozen- for future resuscitation. The San Bernardino County DA wasn't convinced Mother Kent had died of natural causes and was preparing to autopsy the remains. But Saul took the head on the lam. Could he elude police while maintaining the head at a proper temperature until he reached the Alcor Life Extension Company?

* "The Stalker" — Bill Kinsley, employer and victim of a disgruntled postal worker
Bill Kinsley was on the fast track at the post office. His dream was to become Postmaster General, that is, until he met Thomas McIlvane, kick boxer, letter carrier, gun freak, and soon to be mass murderer. At the end of the carnage, Kinsley was alive and McIlvane dead, but for Kinsley the nightmare did not end. Today he lives in fear, waiting for someone out there in the night that might be coming to kill him.

* "The Parrot" — Jane Gill, victim of a murder with a possible avian eye-witness

Jane Gill was found dead, smothered in the master bedroom of her 21-room mansion. Near her lifeless body the police found Max, her 16-year old African gray parrot. A brilliant bird with a vocabulary of over 450 words, Max was reduced to repeating one phrase over and over again following his owner's demise: "Richard. No, no, no, no, no..." Gary Rasp, Gill's business partner and the beneficiary of her $2 million insurance policy, was put on trial for her murder. All that stood between him and the California gas chamber was a one and a half pound bird with orange tail feathers. Was Max really repeating what he heard the night of the murder? Would the judge let this talkative African parrot testify in a California court of law? And if the bird really knew what happened, who was Richard...?

* "Eyeball to Eyeball" — Clyde Roper, authority on the giant squid
Clyde Roper is on a life-long quest to be the first person to see a living giant squid. A lobster fisherman and then an invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian Institute, Roper has obsessively hunted the mythic creature for over 30 years. This bizarre animal, which grows to the length of a football field and has eyes the size of volleyballs, has continually eluded him. Roper's obsession has even landed him in the hospital for quadruple bypass surgery. Here is a story about a man who started off trapping seafood, who may end his life being trapped by seafood.

* "Mr. Debt" — Andrew Capoccia, whiz lawyer for credit-card debtors

Is unending, unyielding, all encompassing debt an unavoidable fact of life...? Perhaps. Perhaps not. OK, if not, then who's responsible...? Who got us into this mess...? Can someone be blamed...? Andrew Capoccia's answer is an unequivocal, "Yes." Credit card companies, collection agencies, in short, banks and their agents are frantically fighting to put Capoccia behind bars. A "credit card revolutionary," Capoccia wants to take down the credit system. He's gotten rich by taking hundreds of thousands of people caught in the endless spiral of credit card debt and confronting creditors on their behalf - and winning. Despite his successes, he's been fined over a million dollars by the courts, sued by the attorney general for fraud, and condemned by an attorney review board. Capoccia is embroiled in a crusade that threatens the system of credit as we know it. But is he a selfless moral crusader or a shyster opportunist? Is he a genius or a fraud?

* "In the Kingdom of the Unabomber" — Gary Greenberg, Unabomber pen pal and would-be biographer

Gary Greenberg, a psychotherapist fixated on becoming a writer, was unable to get his work noticed. What better scheme than to attach himself to a writer who had not only gotten published but was also something of a celebrity?? The only drawback, Greenberg's writer was the notorious, the infamous Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. They started a correspondence. Seemingly innocuous at first. And then, yes, fraught with problems. A couple of misunderstandings. Unexpected competition for Ted's affections, and then all hell started to break loose. Greenberg, who had hoped for a little assistance in his writing career, found himself in the middle of a paranoid nightmare. But was it of his own devising?? And was the Unabomber just a little annoyed or was he a lot angrier than that...?

* "Smiling in a Jar" — Gretchen Worden, director of the Mütter Museum of medical oddities in Philadelphia

The Mütter Museum (located in Philadelphia) is an often overlooked museum of medical specimens and curiosities. Gretchen Worden, its perverse director, presides over an assemblage of wax models of dermatological deformities, monstrosities floating in brackish liquids, Grover Cleveland's bladder stones, and, oh, so much more. Worden's bout with Hodgkin's Disease led her to this museum of oddities. For her, "it's all about stories," and each specimen in her custody has its own unique and important story to tell.

* "You're Soaking In It" — Joan Dougherty, crime scene cleaner
After her stepson's tragic shotgun suicide, Joan Dougherty was left with an unnerving and disgusting mess. There was no one to turn to, no one to help, so Dougherty broke out mops, buckets, and scouring pads and got to work. Intent on helping others who find themselves in the same situation, Dougherty started her own business cleaning up after violent crimes and grisly decompositions. A true entrepreneur, Joan now hopes to effectively market her services, build her company's profile and attract clients. She started her career comforting herself in her grief, but has become a "designated mourner," the woman who cares when no one else is willing or able to give a damn.

* "The Little Gray Man" — Antonio Mendez, retired CIA operative and master of disguise
For 25 years as a CIA undercover agent, Antonio Mendez led two lives. Or was it that he was living no life at all...? In his efforts to become invisible, to become "a little gray man," overlooked by everyone, he needed to blur his identity not only to others but also to himself. To his friends he was a bureaucrat working for the Department of Defense. To the leaders of the CIA he was their master of disguise?someone who could create an entirely new identity for anybody, anywhere, anytime. Whether in Hong Kong, Laos, Moscow or Iran, Mendez led many risky missions, including the daring rescue of six American diplomats from 1979 revolutionary Iran and the exfiltration of a Soviet mole from Moscow in the depths of the Cold War. His motto: "Once is an accident; twice is a coincidence, three times is an enemy action."

* "Harvesting Me" — Josh Harris, internet entrepreneur (We Live in Public) and TV addict

The 3rd millennium has been ushered into existence. No apocalypse. No Four Horsemen. No end of the world. No nothing. Nevertheless, Josh Harris, Internet entrepreneur and aspiring artist has decided that the 2nd coming is at hand. And "the new Messiah" is none other than Gilligan, that's right, the Gilligan, from Gilligan's Island. No, not Bob Denver, the actor playing Gilligan. He is but an avatar or the messianic life force, which is Gilligan himself. For Harris, life is a sad tug-of-war between those who control reality and those controlled by it. The weapon is media. And Harris, in an all-out onslaught on the world, has decided to make his own torpid existence into a new religion.

* "The Smartest Man in the World" — Chris Langan, bar bouncer with the alleged world's highest IQ

There's Mensa. There's the Triple Nines. There's the One-in-a-Thousand Society. But the members of these societies are dummies compared to those rare individuals with IQs so high that new tests must be devised in order to measure them. Chris Langan, body-builder and nightclub bouncer, has the highest recorded IQ in history. By his own account, somewhere in the 190-210 range.

* "The Only Truth" — Murray Richman, lawyer to New York mobsters

Human beings are a violent species. Murder. Torture. Mutilation. Murray Richman specializes in the dark and grisly. Guilty of a heinous crime? "Don't Worry" Murray, legal counsel to gangsters and gangstas, arsonists and racketeers, will fix you up. And chances are you'll beat the rap. Murray got a jury to believe that a murder victim had accidentally fallen seven times onto a knife. Oddly cynical for an idealist, oddly idealistic for a cynic, Murray offers up his vision of Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Is he Liberty's last champion or just another wiseguy?

* "One in a Million Trillion" — Rick Rosner, professional high school student and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
What do you do when things don't quite go your way? Give up? Move on? Try something new? Not if you're Rick Rosner. Obsessed with "getting it right," Rick went back to high school. Not once, not twice, not three times. Four separate times. In fact, he kept going back until he was 34 years old using a combination of fraudulent IDs, wigs, and prosthetics. You might consider him an expert, not on make-overs, but on do-overs. Now a bouncer, a nude model, and a cosmologist, Rick has taken that same commitment to repetition to the television program, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. You see, Rick was on the show, and he lost to a bad question. With his record-breaking IQ, he didn't take it too well. After two years of exhaustive statistical analysis, looking at every question in every version of the game, he has ruined his very own life. Now on the edge of sanity, he is advancing a theory of cosmology in which the universe is seen as trillions of years old. "Why so old?" you might ask. To give it the opportunity to endlessly copy itself.

* "Mr. Personality" — Dr. Michael Stone, forensic pathologist and homicide aficionado
Michael Stone thinks he has figured out the human psyche. Classify the negative traits. Draw up lists, charts, Venn diagrams. Fill books with them. Take those books, compare them with other books, use them as "diagnostic tools." Metaphors abound: the Radial Tire Model, the Wiggins Circumplex Model, anxiety clusters, the lost continent of incest. What makes a serial killer? Why are certain people prone to fits of rage? Take a candidate, run him through the proscribed formulas, and you end up with a precise and definitive answer. Psychopath, sociopath, pathological narcissist. Stone has built an endlessly self-reflexive world out of nomenclature. In the quest to classify others, has he merely gotten lost in himself?

* "Leaving the Earth" — Denny Fitch, DC-10 pilot and hero
The plane was out of control. The flight control systems were inoperable, severed by shards of the Number Two engine. There were 296 S.O.B.'s, souls on board. A flying bomb filled with tens of thousands of pounds of explosive aircraft fuel. No one knew what to do. Not the pilot, not airline maintenance, not the manufacturer, not the aircraft designers, absolutely no one. Check pilot Denny Fitch, a passenger in first class, went forward to the cockpit, where he managed to control the plane using only the thrusters. The crash landing was a miracle. In subsequent simulations, no pilot could pull it off. Why was Denny Fitch on that plane? How did he manage to land it at all? 186 people lived, but 111 people died. Of course, everyone would have been dead if not for Fitch. Will the memory of the 111 ever leave Fitch in peace? Even though he did the impossible, will he always be haunted by the belief that he might have done the impossible better? The dream of a perfect landing...

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A Brief History of Errol Morris (2000)

Director:

Kevin Macdonald

Runtime: 48 min

Od autora jednog od najjačih dokumentaraca ikada snimljenih, Touching the Void (2003) evo priča o čoveku koji je definitivno digao sranje na viši nivo, uvek smišljajući nešto novo, do tad neviđeno u dokumentarnom filmu. Posle Herzoga ovo je sigurno najplodniji, najfanatičniji i najbitniji autor. Errol Morris nam je podario brdo genijalnih dokumentarnih filmova, ali ipak treba izdvojiti par revolucionarnih. Dakle, na prvom mestu First Person (2000), koji je meni nešto najluđe ikada snimljeno, ali ne u onom zajebantskom smislu, nego upravo obrnuto. Dalje, The Thin Blue Line (1988), prvi crime doc koji se probio do šireg auditorijuma, prvi dokumentarac u kome smo mogli da vidimo i igranu rekonstrukciju zločina, tzv. reenactment, i naravno čuveni, pa možda i najčuveniji rad Errola Morrisa, koji ste, ja mislim, svi gledali, A Brief History of Time (1991), koji je rađen po istoimenom bestesleru Stephena Hawkinga. Ovo je priča o njegovim tripovima, njegovim filmovima i skroz neuobičajenom životu punom uspona i padova, npr. bio je opsednut serijskim ubicama pa je čak pisao i knjigu na tu temu koju naravno nikad nije završio. Umesto da doktorira na Berkliju otišao je u Winsconsin i tamo uspeo da intervjuiše Ed Gina na samo njemu svojstven način, i tako inspiriše Herzoga da svoj legendarni igrani film, Stroszek (1977), o kome sam već dosta pisao i povodom samoubistva Ian Curtisa a i ovako, snimi baš u malom gradiću Plainfieldu, mestu u kom je Ed Gin žario i palio polovinom prošlog veka. Inače, na blogu možete naći sve njegove filmove osim poslednjeg koga nema al' bukvalno nigde, tako da ako neko naleti na Tabloid (2010) nek' opušteno baci dojavu. Hvala.

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"Errol Morris' has the uncanny ability to extract truths from people and his trademark is making private drama public. This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary filmmaking in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career includes clips of all his important films: among them THE FOG OF WAR, GATES OF HEAVEN, FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL, and MR. DEATH as well as interviews with collaborators such as Werner Herzog and Phillip Glass."

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Three Documentary Filmmakers: Errol Morris, Ross Mcelwee, Jean Rouch (2009,PDF)

Knjiga o tri reditelja koji su čitave svoje živote posvetili dokumentarnim filmovima. Što se tiče Ross McElweea, za sad sam postavio samo njegov masterpis Sherman's March (1986), dok je Errol Morris već, pa može se reći, domaćin na ovom blogu, sa čak 8 radova, od kojih bi možda izdvojio First Person (2000), zbog skroz nesvakidašnje forme dokumentovanja stvarnosti. Treći u priči, Francuz Jean Rouch, je sada već pokojna faca, imam neke njegove dokumentarce, ali se još nisam usudio da ih postavim, no o tom potom, biće i toga, niti jedan (ne)bitniji reditelj neće biti zapostavljen, a do tad uživajte u ovom pdf štivu.

"Film study has tended to treat documentary as a marginal form, but as the essaysin Three Documentary Filmmakers demonstrate, the films of Jean Rouch, Ross McElwee, and Errol Morris call for, and reward, the sort of criticism expected of serious works in any medium. However, critical methods that illuminate what makes Citizen Kane a great film are not adequate for expressing what it is about Rouch's The Funeral at Bongo: The Old Annaï, McElwee's Time Indefinite, and Morris's The Fog of War that makes them--each in its own way--great films as well. Although these filmmakers differ strikingly from one another, their films are deeply philosophical and personal, and explore the paradoxical relationships between fantasy and reality, self and world, fiction and documentary, dreams and film, filming and living. It is a challenge to find terms of criticism capable of illuminating such works, and the essays in this book rise to that challenge."

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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)

Director:
Errol Morris

Od autora genijalnih dokumentaraca The Thin Blue Line (1988), First Person (2000) i A Brief History of Time (1991), evo jedne malo drugačije akcije, ali takođe sasvim propisno predrkane. Dokumentarac je uzo Oskara za 2003. godinu, i ako ste gledali barem jedan od filmova Errola Morrisa prepoznaćete taj rad na keca. VR'. (107 min)


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"Robert S. McNamara discusses his experiences and lessons learned during his tenure as Secretary of Defense under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. He talks about his work as a bombing statistician during World War II, his brief tenure as president of Ford Motor Company, and the Kennedy administration's triumph during the Cuban Missle Crisis. However, the film focuses primarily on his failures in Vietnam. The theme of the film are his "eleven lessons" learned during this time. Some of these include improving military efficiency, understanding your enemy, and the frustrations of trying to deal with (and unsuccessfully trying to change) human nature."

R.S. McNamara's eleven lessons of war :

01. Empathize with your enemy
02. Rationality will not save us
03. There's something beyond one's self
04. Maximize efficiency
05. Proportionality should be a guideline in war
06. Get the data
07. Belief and seeing are often both wrong
08. Be prepared to re-examine your reasoning
09. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil
10. Never say never
11. You can't change human nature




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A Brief History of Time (1991)

Director:
Errol Morris

Najproslavljeniji i ujedno najgledaniji dokumentarac Errola Morrisa. Siguran sam da je 70% ljudi koji ovde navraćaju gledalo ovaj film jer su ga nebrojeno puta puštali po raznim TV kanalima. Za sve one koji su ga sticajem okolnosti omašili evo vam ga na. Dakle, rađeno po istoimenom bestseleru Stephena Hawkinga, a ujedno to je i Hawkingova biografska priča. Znači, ko nije gledo, obavezno! (80 min)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103882/

"Documentarian Errol Morris has a knack for finding the fascinating quirks of his subjects, and this brings Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time to sparkling life. Through interviews with family and colleagues of the brilliant theoretical physicist, as well as Hawking's own synthesized readings and reminiscences, we learn of his early life, his struggle with the degenerative disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and his wide-ranging contributions to our knowledge of time, black holes, and the origin of the universe. The science is never downplayed; between Hawking's prose and Morris's visual wizardry, important concepts such as entropy and singularities jump from the screen in memorable vignettes. (Hawking believes a truly universal theory of physics will be understood by "scientists, philosophers, and just ordinary people.") Philip Glass's music, subdued and minimal, balances the alternately somber and hilarious moods of the film. The viewer is left with a sense of awe at the joyous spirit of a man trapped in the world of the mind, occasionally letting the rest of us in on his discoveries."

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Vernon, Florida (1981)

Director:
Errol Morris

Evo jednog dokumentarca koji valja pažljivo poslušati, znači nije dovoljno samo gledati, jer jezik kojim se ovde govori, ja sam ga krstio "floridski" američki, je jako težak za razumevanje ako se sluša onako usput, dakle zahteva punu koncentraciju. Inače, ovaj jezik je meni nerazumljiviji čak i od južnjačkog mada imaju dosta dodirnih tačaka, a možda sam i ja sve to istripovo, možda sve skontate na keca.

Dakle, ovo je drugi film po redu Errola Morrisa gde je on već vaspostavio svoj fazon statične kamere, a ljude koji ovde govore je iskopao u malom polu-ruralnom gradiću Vernonu u Floridi. Znači to nije ona Florida gde se babe i dede baškare na suncu, plažiraju se i to, nego skroz na severu države međ' močvarama i "prašumama". I Morris nije mnogo morao da se cima da nađe sagovornike, ovakvi krajevi su prepuni žrtava. Ako se ko seća onog kultnog serijala RTS-a iz 80-ih, LJUDI GOVORE, e ovo vam je taj neki fazon, dakle dođe ekipa u tako neki zabačeni kraj i pusti ljude da otvore dušu, pa tako ovde imamo jednog simpatičnog čičicu koji navatava sve živuljke koje drsko trespesuju njegov posed, ali ih ne ubija nego ih čuva, kol'ko sam skonto 'oće da ih proda.

Onda neki pop, sveštenik, drži propoved o tome otkud to da se reč "therefore" toliko puta pominje u Bibliji. Ima još tu dosta zanimljivih faca kakve se samo poželeti mogu ali definitivni hajlajt je fanatični lovac na ćurke, koji je od tog lova stvorio čitavu jednu filozofiju. Dakle, skroz neobičan dokumentarac, nije za svakoga, potrebna je puna koncentracija, ali da vredi, definitivno vredi. (55 min)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083281/

"Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill."




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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)

Director:
Errol Morris

Još jedan masterpis Errola Morrisa, isti dokumentaristički pristup ko i u First Person, samo što su ovde 4 priče isprepletene, i to tako dobro da na kraju mož' samo da ustvrdimo da je ovo jedan film, a ne 4 zasebne priče nabacane na gomilu. E sad, ako ste gledali First Person znate koji je rad, osoba sedi sama u sobi sa kamerom, a Errol je na drugom mestu, tako da se stvara jedna skroz jedinstvena atmosfera koja je tipična samo za radove Errola Morrisa jer to je logično, njegov izum. Nešto slično je radio i u svom prvom filmu Gates of Heaven, ali tada još nije imo dostupna sva čuda tehnike da sprovede ideju u delo.

Umirovljeni ukrotitelj lavova i tigrova, jedan baštovan koji pravi razne egzotične životinje od žive ograde, zatim jedan naučnik koji se bavi posebnom vrstom krtica koje se zovu mole-rats, a koje su jedini sisari na Zemlji koji žive u zajednici nalik mravljoj, naravno ova priča je najluđa automatski, ali na kraju tu je i stručnjak za robotiku koji je opsednut pravljenjem robota koji će slično životinjama npr. izvršavati razne vrste zadataka koordinisano. E sad, kako su tačno povezane ove 4 priče to mora se izvali, uglavnom scene iz cirkusa koje dominiraju filmom nose neke od skrivenih poruka. (82 min)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119107/

"What do an elderly topiary gardener, a retired lion tamer, a man fascinated by mole rats, and a cutting-edge robotics designer have in common? Both nothing and everything in this unconventional documentary directed by Erroll Morris. Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (Referring to the robot specialist's strange philosophy of robot design structure, not Erroll Morris's documentary techniques!) interplays, overlaps, and interrelates these four separate and highly specialized documentary subjects in order to in truth study all of humanity, raising questions about the future of mankind."

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Gates of Heaven (1978)

Director:
Errol Morris

Rivju za ovo debitanstko delo Errola Morrisa napisala je još poodavno moja drugarica, i saradnica u fanatičnom gledanju dokumentaraca, Silvyyy, poznatija i kao S. Kao veliki fan onoga što sam ja krstio kao weird-funny pod-ispod-žanr dokumentranog filma, ona je i najkompetentnija da ovakvo nešto napiše jer to što ona gleda to ja mislim niko u Srbiji osim nje, bez zajebancije. Naravno, pre rivjua samo da napomenem da je Errol kasnije postao jedan od najplodnijih dokumentarista (se tako kaže?) pa je do danas snimio čak 9 filmova, što ga stavlja odma' iza genijalnog Herzoga. Od Errolovih filmova valja posebno pomenuti The Thin Blue Line (1988), A Brief History of Time (1991) i First Person (2000), koje naravno najtoplije preporučujem. I da bre, još jedna stvar zašto sam izabrao rivju by Silvyyy, naime S. za razliku od mene zaista voli životinje, dok ja volim samo svoju mačku Skviki, a sve ostale ljude/životinje JOK (e da, i tetkinog bigla Arku volim). Dakle ide rivju by S.

Film se (recimo) sastoji iz dva dela. Prvi deo je o coveku koji je u saradnji sa jos par ljudi pokusao da napravi groblje kucnih ljubimaca, ali nazalost nije uspeo u tome, a drugi deo je o porodici koja uspesno vodi jedno koje se zove Bubbling Well Pet Cemetery. Mnogo mi se vise svideo prvi deo jer je potresniji i mnogo emotivniji. Lik je samo zbog ljubavi prema zivotinjama zeleo da ucini ljudima koji dele tu ljubav time sto bi im omogucio mesto gde ce moci da sahranjuju svoje ljubimce. Svi vlasnici znaju da je to velik problem jer vecini ljubimac postane clan porodice i niko ne zeli da taj ljubimac, nakon sto ugine, zavrsi u smecu ili bilo sta tako uzasno... Mnogi ih sami sahranjuju na mestu koje odaberu, ali to nije bas izvodljivo kada vam je ljubimac doga ili konj... Uglavnom, to nije uspeo jer zbog nedostatka novca. Kako je to radio samo iz ljubavi, nije zeleo da trazi od ljudi neku ogromnu cifru, pa tako nije imao dovoljno para da pokrije sve troskove. Ono sto je zaista tragicno je sto je nakon toga vlasnik zemljista (kojem je zemljiste vraceno) trazio da se svi (do tada) sahranjeni ljubimci prebace zbog profita ili tako nesto. Errol je bukvalno postavio kameru pred ljude (cak se gubi osecaj da se neko nalazi iza kamere) i dao im potpunu slobodu da pricaju o cemu god zele. Ljudi pricaju o ljubavi prema zivotinjama, o gubitku, o tome koliko je tesko nositi se sa tim gubitkom, ali i o svemu ostalom, pa tako saznajemo od jedne zene koliko joj je sin nezahvalan i koliko je ignorise, kao i njene zdravstvene probleme, zatim zivotnu pricu porodice koja drzi Bubbling Well, jednom od sinova je neka devojka slomila srce i sl. Jako simpatican, tuzan i na momente smesan film. Za povremeno plakanje. Mada nikako ga ne bih preporucila onima koji ne vole zivotinje jer bi im sve to verovatno samo bilo smesno.

Za kraj bi samo pomenuo za one koji može biti ne znaju, da su Herzog i Errol jarani od davnina, pa se tako Herzog onakav kakav je, nenormalan, opkladio sa Errolom da ukoliko ovaj uspe da završi ovaj svoj prvi dokumentarac, da će javno pojesti svoje cipele. Šta mislite dal' je Herzog imao jaja da to i uradi ? E, za to ćete morati da sačekate do sutra, OK ? :)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077598/

"Funny, inspiring, and bizarre, "Gates of Heaven" is a celebrated pet cemetery documentary that is in reality an unorthodox look at life. Inspired by an article entitled "450 Dead Pets Going to Napa Valley," Errol Morris set out to capture the event which centered around the transport of hundreds of animal remains from one pet cemetery to another. Pet cemetery proprietors, embalmers, pet owners and others speak about life, work, and feelings. We first meet Floyd McClure, a paraplegic with a dream to create a pet cemetery. One inspiration is the death of his collie years before; and the other is the local rendering plant, which turns animals into glue. He realizes his dream, only to see it fail. Then we visit a successful pet cemetery, run by a father and his two sons. One is a frustrated musician, nursing a broken heart. The other is joining the family business after selling insurance in Salt Lake City. Throughout, we also meet the people who have buried their pets."




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The Thin Blue Line (1988)

Director:

Errol Morris

28. novembra 1976. u Dalasu policijska patrola zaustavlja vozilo zbog saobracajnog prekrasaja, policajac prilazi i biva ubijen sa nekoliko hitaca iz revolvera. Njegova koleginica ne uspeva da odreaguje jer cirka milkshejk zavaljena na mestu suvozacha u kolima iza, pa cak ne uspeva da zapamti ni broj tablica, tako da jedini podatak koji policija ima je da je vozilo plave boje (omashila je cak i marku). Slucaj verovatno nikad ne bi ni bio razresen da se klinac od 16 godina nije hvalio medj' svojom rajom kako je upravo on upucao policajca. Policiji stize dojava i navatavaju dete, on ih vodi do vozila, pokazuje im gde se nalazi pistolj kojim je pochinjeno ubistvo, ali kasnije tokom istrage namesta 28-ogodisnjeg stopera kojeg je pokupio ranije te veceri sa pricom da je zapravo ovaj izvrsio zlocin. Policija logicno pizdi i zeli da okonca sto brze slucaj ubijenog kolege i ubicu posalje da death row, jer setimo se, u pitanju je Teksas gde je smrtna kazna ko psovka u Srbiji. Iako svi dokazi ukazuju na klinca, posto je ovaj maloletan i ne moze da bude osudjen na smrt, okruzni tuzilac se ustremljuje na starijeg osumnjicenog iako ovaj porice da se u trenutku zlochina nalazio u vozilu i uprkos tome da ne postoje skoro nikakvi dokazi protiv njega. Prezentovanje dokaznog materijala, svedocenja na prvom mestu dvojice optuzenih, a zatim detektiva, svedoka i advokata, i po prvi put u dokumentarnom filmu igrana rekonstrukcija zlocina iz vise uglova, uvode nas u REALNI TRILER koji nam ostavlja prostor da sami razluchimo sta se zapravo desilo i ko je ubica. Inace ovo je najpoznatije delo genijalnog Errola Morissa i ujedno prvi CRIME dok. koji se probio do shireg auditorijuma i tako utabao put genijalnim filmovima poput okultnog Paradise losta, Murder on a sunday morning i The Trials of Darryl Hunt. Za fanove Errola Morissa i uopste TRUE-CRIME dokumentaraca definitivno A MUST SEE. (103 min)

IMDB

"Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. Briefly, a drifter (Randall Adams) ran out of gas in Texas and was picked up by a 16-year-old runaway (David Harris). Later that night, they drank some beer, smoked some marijuana, and went to the movies. Then, their stories diverge. Adams claims that he left for his motel, where he was staying with his brother, and went to sleep. Harris, however, says that they were stopped by police late that night and Adams suddenly shot the officer approaching their car. The film shows the audience the evidence gathered by the police, who were under extreme pressure to clear the case. It strongly makes a point that the circumstantial evidence was very flimsy. In fact, it becomes apparent that Harris was a much more likely suspect and was in the middle of a 'crime spree,' eventually ending up on Death Row himself for the later commission of other crimes. Morris implies that the D.A.'s and judge's desire for the death penalty in this case (which Harris would have been ineligible for, due to his youth), made Adams a scapegoat on which to pin this heinous crime."

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Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

Director:
Errol Morris

Tata dokumentarnog "trilera" opet je u kuci, ovaj put u pitanju je svima dobro poznat skandal (chuj skandal) kad su americhki vojnici muchili i na najgore nachine ponizavali zarobljenike, navodne muslimanske teroriste u Irachkom Abu Ghraib zatvoru , i sve to naravno slikali shto ih je i uzjebalo na kraju. Svi se secamo nekih od tih fotografija, goli ljudi na gomili, muchenje strujom (ej pa to zvuchi poznato ?!) i ostala maltretiranja najgore vrste i ona midzet zena-vojnik, uzas bre, uzas. Znachi ovaj film je uperen direktno protiv U.S. vojske i tog sistema prepunog korupcije, pure uncut ZLA i to bez ikakih kompromisa. 20 godina posle surovog dokumentarca o policijskim brutalnostima i bahacenjima, korumpiranom sudstvu i nepravdi koja unistava svaki smisao postojanja choveka kao individue - kultnog "The Thin Blue Line" Eroll prelazi na sledece nivo drzavno sponzorisanog nasilja, vojsku prepunu psihopata. Ali posto je film tek izasao necu mnogo da ga bacam, pogledajte, necete se pokajati, Errol Morris barem nikad nije izdo. 2 sata najboljeg real life trilera - that's for sure.

IMDB

"Master filmmaker Errol Morris turns his keen eye to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in this intense and provocative documentary. Using interviews with the soldiers that appeared in the now infamous torture photos, Morris strings their stories together with vivid reenactments and striking digital technology for a wrenching look at the events at the prison. With his trademark straight-into-the-lens interview style, it is chilling to see the familiar faces of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harmon as they try to articulate their experiences. The lawlessness and confusion in the prison quickly become evident, and as their stories unfold, the film slowly strips away the many puzzling questions that surround the incidents, exposing a much larger truth about corruption within the US military, corruption that appears to reach far beyond the handful of soldiers that took the fall for the scandal. Morris's reenactments are extremely vivid, and often shot in a beautifully cinematic style. While these techniques make for riveting film making, they are sometimes considered controversial by documentary purists, and some might criticize his detailed recreations of such deeply disturbing events. However, others might deem the reenactments necessary to really bringing home the reality of what happened. Regardless of his methods, Morris does a masterly job of untangling such a complex, twisted story. He shines a glaring light on one of America's most shameful moments and, more importantly, exposes how little we truly know about our military's methods."

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