This American Life: Death To Wacky – 3/20/98 Ira Glass notes as he exits the theatre after seeing Fast Cheap and Out of Control about how the marketing campaign passes the film off as “wacky.” As we’ve seen, Errol Morris’ movies are never just one thing, so the idea of trashing simplistic generalization to sell more tickets……sort of nice to hear. (Mentions my favorite film Brazil, along with Crumb being marketed as wacky.)
Fresh Air with Terry Gross – 1/5/04 Interview with Morris, mainly about The Fog of War. If you write your paper on the cognate “film” The Fog of War, listen to this 40 minute interview. Even if you don’t write your paper on this, listen to the interview. Morris sounds great even when he’s the one being interviewed. It really focuses on the historical importance of Robert S. McNamara, but it also gets at interviewing techniques.
“This I Believe”: Errol Morris – 5/2/05 Interesting anecdote from Morris’ childhood focusing on the importance of truth.