The Errol Morris DVD Collection (Gates of Heaven/The Thin Blue Line/Vernon, Florida)

The Errol Morris DVD Collection (Gates of Heaven/The Thin Blue Line/Vernon, Florida)
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The Errol Morris DVD Collection (Gates of Heaven/The Thin Blue Line/Vernon, Florida)
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Actor: David Harris (III), Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton, Randall Adams
Director: Errol Morris
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 241 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: Definitely not a big 'ol box of Great Errol Morris, but hey!
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this one having previously viewed "A Thin Blue Line". needless to say I had high hopes. I'm glad I bought it. Awe!! It's cheaper now! BUYBUYBUY

Errol is my favorite documentary filmmaker. Fog of War, Mr. Death, Blue Line, Cheap Fast, Brief History of Time. This guy is the best. period. Blue Line is probably his greatest achievement, so I was also curious to see the other two. I had mixed opinions though.

I started with "Gates of Heaven"; I believe his earliest in the set. I string of endlessly quirky, interesting characters (typical Morris) tells you about their journeys surrounding the pet funeral business. This one put my roommate to sleep and I was a bit turned off by it. I'll probably never view it again unless I get really hooked on docs, but it was rather amazing to see a directors craft begin to get honed.

"Vernon, Florida" was definitely a neat one. It was about the crazy people and crazy critters in the little bumf*ck town of Vernon. Really neat old guys telling odd stories and reminiscing take up the bulk of the film. Sound boring? I assure you it isn't.

"A Thin Blue Line" - One of the most important films ever made. This one actually saved an innocent man from DEATH ROW. 'Nuff said. And well worth the money for the box set alone. I can't believe they throw in the other two for that price, d*mn nice indeed. Can I say d*mn on here? Who cares. At least watch this one before you die.

All in all, Errol's done a lot of other great films not in this small set. There probably is little to no market for box sets of docs, though, so don't expect a bigger one some day. So... support Morris and buy his wonderful wonderfulness!


I apologize for being corny at the end there. That was uncalled for.
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Summary of The Errol Morris DVD Collection (Gates of Heaven/The Thin Blue Line/Vernon, Florida)

The Thin Blue Line On November 28, 1976, when drifter Randall Dale Adams was picked up by teenage runaway David Harris, his fate was sealed. That night, a police officer was shot in cold blood. And though all the facts pointed to Harris, a sociopath with a lengthy rap sheet, Adams was convicted of capital murder. Was Adams guilty? And if not, does Morris unlock the secrets of this baffling case?
Vernon, Florida For the inhabitants of this Southern town, there's no place like home... for the rest of us, there's no place like Vernon, Florida! From the passionate turkey-hunter to the peculiar pet collector, each member of this motley crew has a story to tell. And in the masterful hands of Morris, their obsessions and eccentricities reveal the heart and soul of an unabashedly unique slice of the American pie.
Gates Of Heaven When financial hardship forces California's Foothill Pet Cemetery to close its pearly gates, its dearly departed loved ones are relocated to the nearby Bubbling Well Pet Memorial Park. During this tense transition, filmmaker Morris meets a collection of eccentric cemetery operators and anguished animal-lovers and elicits a meditation on love and loneliness that's "strange, chilling [and] appallingly funny" (Newsweek).
These are the three films that first made Errol Morris's name as a documentary filmmaker, defining a unique artist with an unsparing eye for the truth--the truth of human behavior or legal authority. His first feature, 1978's Gates of Heaven, is a wildly funny and surprisingly moving look at pet cemeteries, and the people who invest an extraordinary degree of emotion in their little darlings. Already Morris is locked into his straight-on camera style, which allows his subjects to soliloquize at length about their most obsessive notions.


Listen to our interview with Errol Morris.
Vernon, Florida (1981) is very much of a piece with Gates, as Morris travels to a small town in Florida's panhandle and allows the oddball denizens to babble on about anything. It has always been an open question whether Morris's blank stare encourages laughter at the expense of his subjects or simply wide-eyed wonder that folks like this carry on in the world, but Vernon viewers will likely be both amused and astonished.

The Thin Blue Line is like In Cold Blood in the sense that it examines a real-life murder case, but it goes much further than reportage: Morris's investigations actually helped alter the judgments in the Texas case, especially affecting the conviction of a hitchhiker named Randall Adams. And the movie is a work of art: a hypnotic bad dream with surreal images and a lulling rhythmic movement (enhanced by Philip Glass's music). It's the kind of movie that might have taken place in Adams's mind as he sat on Death Row, replaying the events that made his life go wrong. --Robert Horton

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