Errol Morris & Tune-Yards

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Fresh New Year, fresh new Bullseye! This week, legendary director Errol Morris. He's the kind of filmmaker that gets shown in film school all the time. He's contributed that much to the field of documentary making. Morris has a way of painting portraits of people in his films that's incredibly vulnerable. A perfect example of this is his first documentary "Gates of Heaven" released in 1978. It's a film about pet cemeteries, and the connection people feel to their deceased pets. Some of his films, like "The Thin Blue Line" try to find objective truth. That film ultimately helped secure a innocent man's freedom from prison. His latest project is a six-part miniseries for Netflix called "Wormwood." The series explores the CIA LSD experiments in the late 1950's, and the effects on a man named Frank Olson. The story is mostly told through interviews of Frank's son, Eric, who's worked for years to uncover the truth. The film is kind of a departure for Errol's signature style — it blends dramatic reenactments and real life interviews. Plus, Merrill Garbus of the band Tune-Yards tells us about the song that changed her life. And for this week's Outshot: The 1991 film "The Commitments."

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0:22.3	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:30.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:35.6	Errol Morris might be the most accomplished documentary filmmaker ever.
0:40.4	He made the thin blue line, The Fog of War, a brilliant guy really opinionated too.
0:45.6	But even though he kind of specializes in nuanced, sympathetic depictions of real people,
0:52.0	Errol Morris probably wouldn't call himself a fan of human beings in general.
0:58.4	Part of our species, and I really do believe that this is an extremely rotten species.
1:04.8	I don't care what you've read, what pay-ons to man, what incommions to the human experience.
1:11.6	I think it's a pretty miserable, miserable species.
1:16.4	But we do have one thing going for us.
1:20.3	And that is that we have some knowledge of truth.
1:23.3	We have some knowledge that there is a world outside of ourselves.
1:28.4	And that perhaps we can come to know something about it.
1:33.0	Through effort, through investigation, through radiosination,
1:38.4	whatever you want to call it.
1:40.4	It's Bullseye.
1:41.9	Coming up, Errol Morris joins me for an in-depth discussion of the nature of truth,
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