The Person as Event: Errol Morris, Stephen Hawking and ‘A Brief History of Time’

In the interview that Errol Morris provides for the new Criterion release of his A Brief History of Time, he confesses that he will never make a film as “romantic” as this profile of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

In much of Morris’s work, whether his depiction of a wrongfully accused murder suspect in The Thin Blue Line or throughout his feature…