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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The interview was a success, one of the best Morris had ever done, in part thanks to what he has dubbed "the TV set that cares, the TV set that wants to find out more about you." Nevertheless, several years passed during which the filmmaker was alternately consumed by other...

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

Although the action of the film is Fred's story, his "rise" to being a successful execution technologist and his "fall" to being discredited, poor, and alone, the force at work the surface is thematic examination of the man's character, and what that character represents in a broader context...

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

The interviews that form the core of "Mr. Death" are strikingly non-judgmental, allowing the audience to make up its own mind about Leuchter based on the words that he wants them to hear. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, Morris himself has few doubts about his subject. "My only claim on...

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

Leuchter, who Morris believes is honestly not an anti-Semite, appears confused and frightened by other people's responses to his actions, but he remains confident in that he did the right thing. "There's nothing in the movie that made him change his views in any way," the director...

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

He continues: "It's like when I ask Fred at the end of the movie, 'Fred, have you ever considered the possibility that you might be wrong?' and he says 'I'm well past that.' Well, none of us are well past that."

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