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Roger Ebert has said, "After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven't found another filmmaker who intrigues me more...Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini." More

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Links Nubar Alexanian, still photographer for Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Mr. Death and the Fog of War.

Kyle Cooper, designer of the animated sequences included the main and end credits for Standard Operating Procedure.

Elsa Dorfman photographed Errol's film subjects and family since 1990.

Bill Drenttel, Michael Bierut, and Betsy Vardell, designers of these web pages, are partners of Winterhouse, Pentagram and RubyStudio, respectively, and contributors to Design Observer.

Danny Elfman, composer of the score for Standard Operating Procedure.

Robert Fernandez represents Errol for commercial work at Moxie Pictures.

Philip Glass, composer of the scores for Fog of War, Thin Blue Line and Brief History of Time.

Philip Gourevitch, author of the book Standard Operating Procedure is also the editor for the Paris Review.

Steve Hardie, production designer for Fog of War and many commercials.

John Kusiak, composer of the musical scores for the First Person television series and numerous television commercials.

Mark Lipson, producer and still photographer for Thin Blue Line.

Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and columnist for The New York Observer.

Randy Thom and John Nutt, sound designers for Standard Operating Procedure work out of Skywalker Sound.

Jeff Selis, author of Cat Spelled Backwards Doesn't Spell God and agency producer of the Miller High Life campaign.

Tim Onosko, has completed a documentary Lost Vegas: The Lounge Era. It is narrated - like my Cisco commercials - by Ricky Jay.



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The Anosognosic's Dilemma: Something's Wrong but You'll Never Know What It Is
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Karen There has been some talk about the profession of journalism. I am sure that for many it is a profession, but for me it has been more of an obsession.

When I was first asked about the possibility of giving a commencement address at the UC-Berkeley School of Journalism, I thought why me?
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Karen Karen Schmeer
An editing fellowship has been established in Karen Schmeer's memory at the American Cinema Editors Educational Center. The year-long experience encourages and champions the talent of an emerging editor. More information is available at www.karenschmeer.com.

Tributes: Oregonlive.com, Boston.com, and Imagine Magazine

The above photograph of Karen was taken by Elsa Dorfman, as part of Elsa's Angels project.
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Thought Experiment #2
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It Was All Started by a Mouse
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Thought Experiment No. 1, and More Inappropriate Alarm Clocks
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The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock
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Director of Officeland Security, Director of Human Resources, Employee of the Year 2003. (Photo by Elsa Dorfman)

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Seven Lies About Lying
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A book of interviews with Errol, edited by Livia Bloom.

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Errol was interviewed for 60 Minutes II back in 2000.

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Watch Errol's EA Sports spots.

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Believing Is Seeing
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The book version of Standard Operating Procedure written by Philip Gourevitch and Errol.


The soundtrack for Standard Operating Procedure by Danny Elfman.

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Blame the Messenger
The Grump Am I supposed to object to this? ...


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Annals of War
The New Yorker website has posted an excerpt from the book, Standard Operating Procedure, as well as video clips from the film.

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New Literary Form
Ron Rosenbaum writes about Errol's blog post for the New York Times, Cartesian Blogging, Part One.

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The Unimaginative Carpenter
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Watch Errol's Full Tilt Poker Spots.

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Watch the Short Film Errol made for the opening of the Oscars and 2002.

Then see how many people you recognized.


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The Non-Existence of God
The Grump Isn't everybody familiar with Anselm's ontological proof of the existence of God?




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Twitter
Follow Errol on twitter.

Toronto International Film Festival
Peter Knegt of Indie Wire writes about Errol's new film, Tabloid, showing at the Toronto Internatonal FIlm Festival.

The World According to Errol Morris
Pat Joseph interviews Errol for California Magazine.

Artur L. Carter Journalism Institute
New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has nomintaed both Standard Operating Procedure and The Fog of War for their Top Ten Works of Journalism of the Decade.

Career Achievement Award
Taylor Segrest interviews Errol about his Career Achievement Award for the International Documentary Association.

Frederick Wiseman's Best Scenes
Errol writes about his favorite scenes from the films of documentary film pioneer Frederick Wiseman in the Blogs and Stories section of the Daily Beast.

Capturing Reality
The Art of Documentary interviews Errol and other documentarians about their craft.

The House Next Door
The Conversations is a monthly feature in which Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard discuss a wide range of cinematic subjects. This month they discuss Errol.

Here and Now
Errol talks to Robin Young on Here and Now about the passing of Robert McNamara.

Current
Errol list his five favorite films on current.com

The Cliopatria Awards
In 2007, Errol won a Cliopatria Award for his, "Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?" posts for the New York Times.

Icy Tale
Tatiana Siegel of Variety writes about Errol's upcoming project.

Truth, Death, and Taxidermy
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Eric Goldscheider interviews Errol in On Wisconsin.

Ghosts
Ian Buruma reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The New York Review of Books.

The Seed Salon
Marc Hauser and Errol discuss game theory, Stanley Milgram, and whether science can make us better people in Seed Magazine.

Sebald, Byrne, Morris
Bernie Michalik writes about Standard Operating Procedure on his blog Smart People I Know.

Objective Truth
David Byrne reviews Standard Operating Procedure on his Journal.

How We See
Adam O. Thomas reviews Standard Operating Procedure for Only Magazine.

Interrogation Practices
Kenneth Turan reviews Standard Operating Procedure for the L.A. Times.

Holding Them Responsible
Ty Burr reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The Boston Globe.

At Abu Ghraib
Peter Rainer reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The Christian Science Monitor.

On Film
The Chicago Reader picks Standard Operating Procedure as a Critics Choice for this weekend.

A.V. Club
Scott Tobias reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The Onion.

Studio 360
Kurt Anderson talks to Errol about Standard Operating Procedure on Studio 360.

Problem with Photography
Guest observer Teddy Blanks reviews Standard Operating Procedure on the Design Observer website.

Questions for Errol
The Harper's Magazine website has a question and answer between W.J.T. Mitchell and Errol.

Photos to Life
Listen to Errol talk about Standard Operating Procedure on NPR's Day to Day.

Gets to the Truth
David Samuels profiles Errol in the current issue of Wired Magazine.

Seeing Is Believing
Chris Wisniewski reviews Standard Operating Procedure for Indiewire.

The Great Interrogator
Errol is featured in this month's GQ written by Chris Heath.

Snapshots of Horror
Christopher Dickey reviews Standard Operating Procedure for Newsweek.

The Fog of Abu Ghraib
In the May issue of Harper's W.J.T. Mitchell reviews Standard Operating Porcedure.

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Order Nubar Alexanian's book of photograps of Errol's sets.





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