Vernon is a town in the Florida panhandle surrounded by swamps. Errol Morris discusses the making of a somewhat unusual film about pet cemeteries. From Academy Award®-winning* director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) comes this acclaimed film about success and failure in the grave business of animal interment.
And yet, their flaws make their stories so compelling and fascinating. ... Gates of Heaven: Filmmaker Interivew with Errol Morris. Here, Errol Morris found the quietly fascinating subjects for the follow-up to his galvanizing debut, GATES OF HEAVEN. Errol Morris' first documentary examines the devotions, emotions and at times, ... Gates of Heaven is a series of interviews beginning with a failed pet cemetery owner and journeys into the world of a successful pet cemetery owner. Such a description, however, can hardly do justice to the captivating, funny, and enigmatic GATES OF HEAVEN, a film that is about our relationships to our pets, each other, and ourselves. His 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line is cited among the best and most influential documentaries ever made. Gates of Heaven: Trailer. Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director primarily of documentaries examining and investigating, among other things, authorities and eccentrics. Gates of Heaven is a sublimely strange and engrossing experience. "Memorable, moving and poignant" (Channel 4 Film), Gates of Heaven is "so rich and thought-provoking it stays in your mind for tantalizing days" (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Gates of Heaven clip For his second film, the exquisitely economical Vernon, Florida, Morris returned to Nub City but abandoned the insurance scam idea for a peripatetic portrait of the town’s eccentric characters.In terms of both image capturing and storytelling, the fifty-six-minute Vernon, Florida is Morris’s loosest film.
Directed by Errol Morris • 1978 • United States Errol Morris burst out of the gate with this brilliant debut feature, about two pet cemeteries in Northern California and the people involved with them. Roger Ebert called his first film, Gates of Heaven (1978), one of the ten best films of all time. Directed by Errol Morris • 1981 • United States. Errol Morris's documentary on Pet Cemeteries and the owners who contributed their deceased pet there is simply exceptional, combining quirky individuals that seem both goofy and melancholic. Morris is the author of two New York Times best sellers, Believing is Seeing and A Wilderness of Error, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages and Op-Docs series. Season 1 Episode .