Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 24, 2015
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
With his trademark mixture of empathy and scrutiny, Errol Morris (A Brief History of Time) has changed the face of documentary filmmaking in the United States, and his career began with two remarkable tales of American eccentricity: 1978’s Gates of Heaven and 1981’s Vernon, Florida.
One of the hairier citizens of Vernon, Florida
The first uses two Southern California pet cemeteries as the bases for a profound and funny rumination on love, loss, and industry; the second travels to a languorous southern backwater and meets a handful of fascinating folks—a determined turkey hunter, a curious minister, a laconic policeman—engaged in individualistic, sometimes absurd pursuits.
Morris consistently creates humane portraits of true candor, and these early works remain two of his greatest and most provocative films.
Criterion’s Blu-ray and DVD editions of these docus contain the following:
- New 2K digital restorations of both films, supervised by director Errol Morris, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays
• New interviews with Morris
• Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe(1980), a twenty-minute film by Les Blank featuring Herzog fulfilling a bet intended to inspire Morris to complete his first feature
• Footage of Herzog professing his admiration for Gates of Heaven at the 1980 Telluride Film Festival
• An essay by critic Eric Hynes
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Buy or Rent Gates of Heaven / Vernon, Florida
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