Well, ask and thou shalt receive, I suppose … following a little exchange on one of our feedback threads wondering why Errol Morris’ early films hadn’t been released on DVD to capitalize on the press with his Oscar win I fired off an email to his production company to see what I could turn up … here’s what they had to say:
“Look for Errol’s earlier films to come out on dvd between Nov 2004 and
Jan 2005. MGM is the distributor. First Person should be out around the
same time.”
Now there are no specific dates for specific titles in there but the feature films currently unavailable are Vernon Florida, Gates of Heaven, A Brief History of Time and The Thin Blue Line. First Person is a television show that Morris did for two seasons on the Bravo channel in the US. Morris is pretty easily my favorite documentary film maker, so this is pretty good news … keep watching this space for more specifics just as soon as we can weasel them out of MGM.
