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Vernon, Florida is a 1981 American documentary film produced and directed by Errol Morris profiling various residents living within the town of Vernon, Florida. [1] Originally titled Nub City , this follow-up to Gates of Heaven initially focused on residents of the Southern town who cut off their own limbs as a way to collect insurance money.
Vernon, Florida: Directed by Errol Morris. With Albert Bitterling, Roscoe Collins, George Harris, Joe Payne. A documentary on the eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.
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In the 1980s, documentary filmmaker Errol Morris attempted to shoot a documentary about the town, but after he received death threats and was beaten up by the Marine veteran son of a Nub Club member, he turned his movie into a slice of life documentary about the eccentric residents of the town entitled in a film called Vernon, Florida.
Jan 11, 2006 · Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), a twenty-minute film by Les Blank featuring Herzog fulfilling a bet intended to inspire Morris to complete his first feature • Footage of Herzog professing his admiration for Gates of Heaven at the 1980 Telluride Film Festival • PLUS: An essay by critic Eric Hynes 753 the Thin Blue Line
Vernon, Florida, like his earlier study of pet cemeteries, Gates of Heaven, is the work of a true original. On the surface, it is simply a portrait of several somewhat eccentric residents of a slow backwater town...There's a taste of Samuel Beckett in the film's tone of droll, forlorn hopefulness, and something of Buster Keaton in the spacious frames and exquisitely deadpan comic timing.
Jul 7, 2014 · The 1981 film Vernon, Florida by Errol Morris has become an underground classic and a textbook example of the captivation of well-made documentary storytelling. It turns out that the impetus for Mo…
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Vernon is a town in the Florida panhandle surrounded by swamps. Here, Errol Morris found the quietly fascinating subjects for the follow-up to his galvanizing debut, Gates of Heaven. As ever humane yet sharply focused, Morris lets his camera subjects pontificate and perambulate the environs of this seemingly unremarkable little community. The result is a strangely philosophical work that ...
