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Back to beating the dead horse again, Errol Morris was nominated for a DGA award this week for outstanding directorial achievement in commercials for 2003--which also lead me to discover he had directed the Ellen Fleiss Apple commercials of Internet renown and some evidently very successful Miller High Life commecials. I was aware he did commercials, but the Ellen one was a trip to discover. For better or worse I have not seen the commercial for which he was nominated, nor did it turn up in a quick search. So.

At the end of a very impressive list of films that ought to be released on DVD (and which I promise to read in it's entirity someday when I might be able to watch some of them) Jim politely adknowledged my suggestion that Morris' debut, Gates of Heaven, was long overdue. Whether you like Roger Ebert or not, he did put it on his top 10 list (which sadly I cannot locate in it's entirity). In his words:

When I put it on my list of the 10 greatest films ever made, I was not joking; this 85-minute film about pet cemeteries has given me more to think about over the past 20 years than most of the other films I've seen.

Well golly, it's good. But having seen Vernon, Florida first I'm partial, even though GoH preceeded it.

(update: just realized Vernon, Florida isn't on DVD either!, what an unforgivable oversight).