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Sadly, "Mr. Death" and the Bravo series are the final two projects that will include the music of Caleb Sampson, Morris' longtime collaborator who passed away in 1998. Morris describes Sampson in glowing terms, calling him "immensely talented. I felt that he was growing very much as an artist," he...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

However, audiences can still look forward to his peculiar brand of interviews, which he describes as "the shut-up-and-listen school." He says of this style, "if you go into an interview with some kind of fixed agenda, than you learn nothing. But an interview where you have no...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

Morris himself is an odd blend of the visionary and the realistic, maintaining his values and consistently producing excellent work while maintaining a consciousness of the audience's experience. "Of course I worry about whether anyone will ever go to see these things, but I don't make them with...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

Today, people are responding to Errol Morris' films more than ever, with "Mr. Death" already on several top ten lists and "The Thin Blue Line," "Vernon, Florida," and "Gates of Heaven" all being reissued by the Independent Film Channel. One way of looking at his success in creating great art...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

So, have the years have brought him any closer to portraying some sort of truth?

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »