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Errol Morris' First Person - The Complete Series

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Editorial Reviews

Hailed by Roger Ebert as "one of America's strangest and most brilliant documentary filmmakers" (Chicago Sun-Times), Errol Morris (The Fog of War) brings his unrivalled talents to the small screen for a stylized series of intimate interviews with a unique and fascinating array of people. With the aid of his "Interrotron" an innovative camera device Morris invented to maintain merciless eye contact with his subjects the Oscar®-winning* director puts his odd assortment of eclectic characters and atypical topics under the microscope to produce "revelatory, whip-smart television" (Baltimore City Paper).

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Includes the episodes:
Mr. Debt
Eyeball to Eyeball
Stairway to Heaven
The Killer Inside Me
I Dismember Mama
The Stalker
The Parrot
Smiling in a Jar
In the Kingdom of the Unabomber
The Little Gray Men
You're Soaking in It
Mr. Personality
The Only Truth | * Harvesting Me |
One in a Million Trillion
Leaving the Earth
The Smartest Man in the World

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Actors: Errol Morris, Michael Stone, Denny Fitch, Josh Harris, Chris Langan
Producers: Errol Morris, Alison Palmer Bourke, Caroline Kaplan, David Collins, Dorothy Aufiero
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated:
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Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005
Run Time: 491 minutes
Average Customer Review: 18 customer reviews
ASIN: B00094AS7W
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #121,234 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #6917 in Movies & TV > DVD > Documentary

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Thomas E. Davis

If you like death, Morris is your man!

March 25, 2009

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There were two and only two seasons of "First Person," Erroll Morris' documentary series, and both are included on this three-DVD set. They make for frequently morbid but undeniably absorbing television.

Morris has an unusual style. Using his "Interrotron," a camera with a mirror that allows subjects to look at the director and answer his questions naturally even as they face viewers squarely, he interviews quirky, articulate people, most of whom seem to have an intimate relationship with death. Interspersed among snippets of the interviews are documents, reenactments, and archival footage.

How death-obsessed is Morris? Well, his most famous feature documentaries have included "Gates of Heaven," about pet cemeteries; "The Thin Blue Line," about a police murder; and "The Fog of War," about Robert McNamara, architect of the Vietnam War, for which Morris won an Academy Award. This series is just as fixated on the Grim Reaper. It includes just over eight hours worth of episodes: 15 that originally ran half an hour and two that lasted an hour. There ain't no more!

* "Mr. Debt," a lawyer who sues credit card companies
* "Eyeball to Eyeball," a zoologist who searches for giant squid and tells us what it would be like to be eaten by one
* "Stairway to Heaven," the autistic animal researcher Temple Grandin, who designs slaughterhouses
* "The Killer Inside Me," a woman who tends to fall in love with serial killers
* "I Dismember Mama," the owner of a cryogenic center who froze his mother's head after she died
* "The Stalker," a postal worker who was shot in a spree killing and still fears for his life
* "The Parrot," a bird who witnessed a mysterious murder
* "Smiling in a Jar," the director of a museum of skeletons and medical freaks preserved in formaldehyde
* "In the Kingdom of the Unabomber," a psychologist who became killer Ted Kaczynski's pen-pal
* "The Little Gray Man," a man who was an undercover CIA agent during the Cold War
* "You're Soaking in It," a woman who cleans up scenes of murder and suicide
* "Mr. Personality," a forensic psychiatrist and expert on the personalities of depraved killers
* "The Only Truth," a lawyer who helps murderers and mobsters get away with it
* "Harvesting Me," an entrepreneur who broadcasts his life on the Internet
* "One in a Million Trillion," a perennial high school student, nude model, and game show contestant (one hour)
* "Leaving the Earth," the airline pilot who helped save 185 lives in a crash that killed 111 (one hour)
* "The Smartest Man in the World," a bar bouncer and self-proclaimed genius

By my count, that's at least 12 out of 17 shows that have a connection to death. Tell me this man is not at least as obsessed as the obsessive people he interviews. If you like true confessions and the truly odd, you'll find plenty to enjoy in this set. In the words of the Don Henley song, "It's interesting when people die / Give us dirty laundry!"

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Buenoslibros.es

Obssession or The Making of Idols

July 21, 2007

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A series of 22 minutes first person narratives. A few episodes, in the 3rd disc are almost a full hour length. They are told sort of like confessions, being us the confessors, becuase they always face the camera and the director isn't present.

The variety of characters presented are as wide as you can think of. In some cases the characters themselves are more interesting/weird/uncanny than their own stories, and the format offers a privileged window into their psyches as they confidently speak to us. Other times it's the plain facts of their lives, the ineluctable fates, the improbable coincidences that strike us as being so uncanny. Many times it's a mix of both. Each and every viewer can pick what captivates his or her attention most.

If I had to find the nexus among these series I would say: They are all people who are obssessed with something, and that something becomes a sort of god. In some cases it may be a passion, but in others it has absorbed the meaning of life.

I found more common ground. There was very little altruism among these folks: everything was about them and they were the center of the universe, so to speak, take away one or two exceptions. I guess it's in the nature of every obssession that it should be so, whether it's a benign obssession or a sick/diabolical one.

A documentary that should make you think.

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John S.

Errol Morris - "First Person"

September 17, 2005

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I am drawn to things that are out of the ordinary, and I have found that Errol Morris captures the unusual in his films. This DVD set has 17 episodes (each about 45 minutes long), where Mr. Morris interviews either very unusual people, or ordinary people with unusual jobs. For example, in "eyeball to eyeball" the guy who has been researching giant squid for most of his career doesn't seem too unusual (until he says that it would be cool to be eaten by one). The episode that I really like though is "the killer in me." This is about a woman who sees herself as being fairly objective and rational (a book writer), but she's attracted to serial killers (falls in love with one in fact). This series is both thought provoking as to the question "why do we do the things we do," but it also offers a mirror to the individuals who are interviewed. This set is so unusual, I'm sure that I'm doing a poor job of describing it, but if you are interested in unusual topics (lawyer for the mob rationalizing why it's okay to defend criminals) to the guy with the 180 IQ who's obsessed with getting back on a TV game show, then you'll find this DVD set a must have. I bought this on a lark (I had bought "the thin blue line"), but I think that this set is great.

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R. Williams

Morris' Best Work

August 12, 2006

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To me, this series is the pinnacle of Morris' career. It combines the elements of his other works, but does so in a fashion that is chillingly effective. For instance, the whimsy of works like Vernon, Florida and Gates of Heaven is seen here, but often within the framing of larger, haunting elements, many times that reverberate even beyond the narrative frame: the internet guy who offers himself up as an attraction (thank you, PT Barnum), but sees himself as one of handful of the 20th C's great artists, the lawyer who goes from defending gangsters to rappers, congratulating himself for sensing the changing 'game.'

The best of these episodes can literally rival the greatest documentaries. The Rick Rossner episodes (2 half hour bits) about his time on the show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' are the best, followed closely by the two segments with Denny Fitch, the passenger/pilot how helped land the United flight in '86 that ended up in an Iowa cornfield.

This is a huge value, and these pieces bear many viewings. Truly amazing. Somehow, too, they bear the lightest authorial imprint, which from Morris, can sometimes have the imperious overtones of his friend Werner Herzog.

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