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




There'll be no learning period with nuclear weapons. You make one mistake and you're going to destroy nations.




Loaned your copy of Fast, Cheap and Out of Control to your ex? Forgot to get your dad a father's day gift? Visit the store.



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.

Peter Debruge review for Variety.






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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?



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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Scott Thill interviews Errol about Tabloid for Wired Magazine.

Gawker's Seth Abramovitch talks to Errol about Tabloid.





The New Yorker's Billy Baker goes dumpster-diving in Errol's basement.Gawker.

Errol is interviewed by Bob Oakes about his brother Noel and the creation of E-Mail.


I am in better shape now. My book on amphibian levitation just arrived.

Publisher's Weekly reviews Errol's new book on photography.



Leon Neyfakh writes in the Boston Globe that when we realize everyone might be lying, most of us just give up. For Errol Morris, that’s just the beginning.


Kevin Macdonald recounts The Thin Blue Line's game-changing innovation.


Errol responds to comments from the Ashtray on the Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog.

Errol talks to The Take Away about the photos of U.S. Solders posing with dead civilans released by Der Spiegel.

Gates Of Heaven will be playing Monday, May 2, as part of TCM salute to Ebertfest.


Boing Boing asks Errol to list what is in his luggage.

On the one year anniversary of Karen Schmeer's death, we continue to mourn the loss of our friend and colleague.

Sundance Selects plans to play the film at key festivals before a theatrical and VOD rollout this summer.

Pat Joseph interviews Errol for California Magazine.

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

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.

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

Errol list his five favorite films on current.com

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

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 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.

Scott Tobias reviews Standard Operating Procedure for The Onion.

Studio 360

Kurt Anderson talks to Errol about Standard Operating Procedure on Studio 360.
Guest observer Teddy Blanks reviews Standard Operating Procedure on the Design Observer website.

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

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

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

Chris Wisniewski reviews Standard Operating Procedure for Indiewire.

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

Christopher Dickey reviews Standard Operating Procedure for Newsweek.

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



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


Standard Operating Procedure, a book written by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris to be published by Penguin Press on May 15, 2008.

Ron Rosenbaum writes about Errol's use of slow motion in Standard Operating Porcedure for Slate.

A question and answer with Errol in print and video from the Columbia Journalism Review by Michael Meyer.

Creativity Magazine lists Errol as one of the Creativity 50. A list of the top fifty minds in advertising over the past twenty years.

Listen to Errol talk about the truth on Christopher Lydon's radio show "Open Source"

The Onion's "A.V. Club" has a interview with Errol talking about his movies recently release on DVD.

The Thin Blue Line, Vernon, Florida, Gates of Heaven, and all of the episodes of First Person are now on dvd.

Check out the Store for details.

The Fog of War book by James G. Blight and Janet M. Lang.

The Onion's "A.V. Club" has a interview with Errol talking about his movies recently release on DVD.

Mike Clark of USA Today writes that "two of the best non-fiction films ever Gates of Heaven and The Thin Blue Line come to DVD from MGM/Sony." on July 26th

FLM Magazine Summer 2005 issue contains an article by Errol about the upcoming DVD Collection release.

Errol wins Outstanding Achievement Award at Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.

Hiawatha Bray, of the Boston Globe, uses Errol's Sharp campaign as an example of an alternate reality game.

Stuart Elliott, of the New York Times, writes about Errol's new campaign for HSBC.

Advertising Age gives a farewell tribute to Miller's Highlife Man.



The Harvard University Gazette's Rob Meyer writes that nine Nobelists, a Fields medalist, and an Oscar winner converged on Harvard. It was in honor of Sidney Coleman.

The Weston Town Crier writes about Errol's recent appearance at the Cambridge School of Weston.

Adweek named Errol Morris as one of the brightest talents in advertising today.

Nancy Ramsey quotes Errol Morris in her New York Times piece about the future of political film making.

Errol Morris and Kurt Andersen looked at how writers and artists reshape history last week on Studio 360.

The Guardian named Errol Morris in the top ten of the world's 40 best directors.

One's company, two's a crowd.


October, 2004
GOTHAMIST: This election year, this political climate and national divide has become overwhelmingly stressful. I say this for myself, but I know it's true of a great number of other people.