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Errol Morris' "Fast, Cheap & Out of Control"
recently named best documentary of 1997
by the New York Film Critics Circle —
returns to an area screen.

MICHAEL ELKIN

Special to The Jewish News

T

here is a thin line between
the unusual and the inex-

plicable, and Errol Morris
walks that tightrope with a
filmmaker's finesse.
The movie man, who once helped
bring an unjustly accused killer to the
attention of authorities through his
award-winning documentary The Thin
Blue Line, has lined up a reel cast of
characters for his latest, somewhat
eerie effort.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
focuses on four characters whose
career choices won't be found in

of both a Guggenheim Fellowship and
a MacArthur Fellowship.
The fellowship he feels for his sub-
jects comes through on the screen.
"The success of my interviews with
the subjects owes a lot to that need to
communicate with people," says
Morris.
"I am a receptive audience, plus I
love to talk. I was born to babble."
Talk to Morris long enough and
you realize that he sees the common-
place in the eccentric. "By the end of

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riot of an -obsessive quartet: wild-
animal trainer Dave Hoover; mole-
rat specialist Ray Mendez; topiary
gardener George Mendonca, spe-
cializing in bears and giraffes; and
robot scientist Rodney Brooks,
whose automated accomplices crawl
like critters.
In its own way, Fast, Cheap 6-
Out of Control examines the ecstacy
of eccentricity. It is an animal farm
for the unusual, with all four men's
pet projects being creatures not
found in prosaic pet shops.
Morris understands what it is to
have an obsession.
"Mine is making movies," he
Errol Morris: "I became aware of anti-
says of such efforts as A Brief History Semitism early on. ... Maybe that's why I do
of Time, which clocked the life and have the feeling of being an outsider."
work of disabled physicist Stephen
Hawking; Vernon, Florida; and Gates
the movie," he says, "you see this the-
of Heaven.
Although his credits include the fic- matic link of all four men. They
become this Everyman."
tional film The Dark Wind, it is the
It's not every man or woman who
documentary form that blows Morris
could make such a connection. But
away.
then, in his own way, Morris under-
"It is an unfettered form of film-
stands the role of outsider.
making," says the three-time winner
Although raised in "an overwhelm-
of fellowships from the National
ingly Jewish area of Long Island," he
Endowment for the Arts and recipient
discovered that Torah wasn't topic No.
Michael Elkin is the entertainment
1 with all those he knew. "I became
editor of the Philadelphia i5ponent.
aware of anti-Semitism early on. I was