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. 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. Both sincere and satirical, this is an endlessly surprising study of human nature.
This interview with director Errol Morris was conducted in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in October 2014.
Directed by Les Blank • 1980 • United States
As a result of a lost bet with his assistant, Errol Morris, director Werner Herzog must eat his own shoe.
Presented here are brief comments by Werner Herzog praising Morris's GATES OF HEAVEN. They are excerpted from a seminar that took place at the 1980 Telluride Film Festival.
