Errol Morris

Errol Morris: Interviews is an irreverent and humorous collection of conversationswith the acclaimed filmmaker. Morris has created some of America's most innovativelasting cinematic works. Generations of filmmakers scholars cinephilesand fans turn again and again to such films as The Thin Blue Line; Fast Cheap andOut of Control; Academy Award-winner The Fog of War; and Standard OperatingProcedure.Throughout his career-which has included stints as a private eye film programmerand commercial director-Morris has honed a unique formal and technicalcinematic approach. A Morris film is characterized by intense personal interviews;dramatic re?creations; a haunting modernist musical atmosphere; and a keensense of complexity irony and black humor. With each new film Morris challengesand redefines what a documentary can be. This volume features startlinginterviews from throughout his career as well as intimate never?before?publisheddiscussions.Livia Bloom is a film curator and a contributor to the collection Imagining Reality:The Faber Book of Documentary. Her writing is published regularly in CinemaScope.