A Brief History of Time (1991)
Directed by Errol Morris
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.
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Striving to pay equal tribute to Hawking’s first wife, Jane (on whose memoir the film is based), and her tireless devotion to him until their 25-year marriage ended in 1995, director James Marsh similarly attempts to find intimate, personal applications for Hawking’s grand cosmic inquiries, tracing the story of how the author of “A Brief History of Time” came to defy time itself.
If I want a more complicated explanation of the universe, then I can refer to Hawking’s book, “A Brief History of Time.”
This isn't A Brief History of Time (1991) or Stephen Hawking's Grand Design (2012).
The thing is, Errol Morris already made A Brief History of Time , and there's simply not much about the life and work of Stephen Hawking that the 80-minute documentary left on the table.
Morris’s 80-minute 1991 documentary — which shares a title with Hawking’s most famous book, A Brief History of Time — dares to find a visual equivalent for Hawking’s ideas, to connect that thinking to Hawking’s life.
The humor, too, is correspondingly more sophisticated, measured in the cleverness of Cuarón's little touches: the students' faces painted in their house colors as they cheer on a quidditch match, the wizard in The Leaky Cauldron reading A Brief History of Time, the magical notes passed surreptitiously in class, even the Monty Python…
His " Gates of Heaven ," about pet cemeteries in California, is one of the best films I have ever seen, and his more recent " The Thin Blue Line " freed a man from Death Row in Texas.
A Brief History Of Time is a hybrid in more ways than one, combining not only Hawking’s ideas and life story, but the disparate approaches of Morris’ previous feature-length documentaries, 1978’s Gates Of Heaven and 1988’s The Thin Blue Line.
A fascinating documentary by master filmmaker Errol Morris ("The Thin Blue Line," "Gates of Heaven"), "A Brief History of Time" is an adaptation of the best-selling book by handicapped British physicist Stephen Hawking, a complex explanation of his theories of the universe.
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The new science-fiction/horror thriller "Event Horizon" has a title that instead suggests a quotient of Stephen Hawking -- whose bestselling introduction to quantum physics, "A Brief History of Time," is where the public is most likely to have encountered this term.
The director was Errol Morris, whose The Thin Blue Line (1988) I egregiously omitted to review.
Directed by the ingenious documentarian Errol Morris (''The Thin Blue Line''), ''A Brief History of Time'' held out the promise of being an audacious, brain-bending experience.
Morris, who made the unconventional, mesmeric film "The Thin Blue Line," proceeds in his refreshingly expressionistic way.
His " Gates of Heaven ," about pet cemeteries in California, is one of the best films I have ever seen, and his more recent " The Thin Blue Line " freed a man from Death Row in Texas.
A Brief History Of Time is a hybrid in more ways than one, combining not only Hawking’s ideas and life story, but the disparate approaches of Morris’ previous feature-length documentaries, 1978’s Gates Of Heaven and 1988’s The Thin Blue Line.