October 29, 2008 11:12 PM UTC

Filmmaker Errol Morris' People in the Middle for Obama...

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Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time) has started a web site called People in the Middle for Obama. He’s filmed a series of folks discussing why they’re voting for the Democratic contender:

http://www.peopleinthemiddlefo…

This is a compilation of their statements (the web site includes the individual interviews):

Morris discusses the history of using real people in campaign commercials in this New York Times article:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.co…

From Morris’ web site:

Roger Ebert has said, “After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven’t found another filmmaker who intrigues me more…Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini.”

Favorites of mine by Morris include Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (which made the naked mole rate a celebrity animal) and Gates of Heaven (about a pet cemetary).