Filmmaker: Werner Herzog

[simmo]

Just saw his new documentary, In The Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, last night. It's in 3D! It's also fucking great. Very, very interesting and exciting. And with plenty of those beautiful "keep the camera rolling" Herzog interviews that compel people to reveal themselves.

I love Werner. He is NOT CRAP

i also saw this film the other night. i love the prehistoric weapons expert or whatever he is. there was a funny q and a (satellite) with herzog afterward as well. apparently his next project is a documentary about prisoners on death row. but i don't want to spoil the ending for you.

They did the satellite Q&A in Nottingham too, was gutted I missed it. Only found out about it the day it happened and it was sold out

[Rotten Tanx]

Herzog on The Simpsons.

As always the frisbee is the window to the soul

[eephour]

Hows the South Pole movie? I almost rented it last weekend but passed, thinking it would be as boring as his movie on the oil fields.

[enframed]

Hows the South Pole movie? I almost rented it last weekend but passed, thinking it would be as boring as his movie on the oil fields.

It's better because it features people and the photography is just as beautiful. I found Lessons of Darkness anything but boring, though. It helps to view it as a sci-fi film, as Herzog has suggested.

Cormac McCarthy, Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss the intersections of art and science (Herzog reads McCarthy, too) here:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/arts/2011/ ... k-science/

And Werner Herzog appears on Fresh Air with Terry Gross here:

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135516812 ... ten-dreams

[Blue of Noon]

Herzog on The Simpsons.

I watched this back when you first posted it.

Pretty good!

[riley]

I hope to holy hell this has been posted.

Herzog reads Where's Waldo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvWh6PMi9Ek

[P.J. Craven]

Got a hold of Cobra Verde. That is an overlooked film in the Herzog oeuvre. Enjoyed it thoroughly.

[AnthonyCinder]

Can't remember which documentary it is, but I think it's the one documenting the relationship between Klaus Kinski and Herzog.

Herzog explains that some of the natives (who filled in as extras in the film) offered to kill Kinski as a service to Herzog. Herzog responded that he didn't want them to kill Kinski because he needed the actor alive in order to finish the film.

Hilarious.

Absolutely not crap.

[givemenoughrope]

Eager to see the cave movie in 3D:

https://www.arclightcinemas.com/ArcLigh ... =Home-Page

[Blue of Noon]

...then-journalist, Theodore Kotulla, who apparently went on to become one of thee New German greats (I'm guessing like Jacques Becker to Herzog's Godard).

This analogy doesn't really make sense, since Becker was well on his way before the Nouvelle Vague. In my stoned logic what I probably meant was that Kotulla isn't as well known as Herzog (duh), in the same way that Becker isn't as well known as Godard these days.

Man, Eierdiebe: lay. off. the. weed.

Still haven't seen anything else by Kotulla.

[AnthonyCinder]

Hows the South Pole movie? I almost rented it last weekend but passed, thinking it would be as boring as his movie on the oil fields.

It's better because it features people and the photography is just as beautiful. I found Lessons of Darkness anything but boring, though. It helps to view it as a sci-fi film, as Herzog has suggested.

Cormac McCarthy, Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss the intersections of art and science (Herzog reads McCarthy, too) here:

http://www.sciencefriday.com/arts/2011/ ... k-science/

And Werner Herzog appears on Fresh Air with Terry Gross here:

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135516812 ... ten-dreams

The McCarthy/Herzog/Krauss interview is mind blowing. Thank you for this.

[P.J. Craven]

Is it worth my time to watch both the German and English versions of Herzog's Nosferatu? I'm not an aspiring filmmaker or anything, just a Herzog fan.

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Is it worth my time to watch both the German and English versions of Herzog's Nosferatu? I'm not an aspiring filmmaker or anything, just a Herzog fan.

It is worth it, although I think the English version is better.

[P.J. Craven]

Is it worth my time to watch both the German and English versions of Herzog's Nosferatu? I'm not an aspiring filmmaker or anything, just a Herzog fan.

It is worth it, although I think the English version is better.

The creepiest part of this movie is Bruno Ganz's Jonathan from the time Van Helsing realizes his error forward. Klaus Kinski was a hell of an actor. Herzog is an inspiration just for having put up with him.

I watched some of Werner's short films recently. The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner and La Soufriére in particular make for pretty compelling viewing. Steiner is also noteworthy for Herzog's slightly unsure presence. He had already made Aguirre and Kaspar Hauser, and yet he didn't seem to play the part of the filmmaker/zen master that he would seem to be in his later documentary features. It could be that Herzog was just completely in awe of the guy.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck is good too, but you'd have to be into that sort of thing (The World Championship of Livestock Auctioneers) as well as Strozek.

[Cranius]

Review of the new Herzog documentary here, a journey into what looks like Errol Morris territory:

Into The Abysss

[Cranius]

Double Post!

[Andrew.]

Paul F Tompkins as Werner Herzog on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast with Zach Galifianakis and Yo La Tengo. Herzog enters about 16 minutes in.

[barndog]

Paul F Tompkins as Werner Herzog on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast with Zach Galifianakis and Yo La Tengo. Herzog enters about 16 minutes in.

This is fucking great.

[tallchris]

Review of the new Herzog documentary here, a journey into what looks like Errol Morris territory:

Into The Abysss

Just watched this the other night. Really powerful stuff, and a change for Herzog (no voice over narration for one).

If you can listen to the former Death Captain dude talk about his experience and still support the death penalty. . .I dunno man.

[Cranius]

If you can listen to the former Death Captain dude talk about his experience and still support the death penalty. . .I dunno man.

Out of all of the testimonies recorded in the film, this was easily the most emotionally powerful. The damage he endures is a good enough reason why there shouldn't be a death penalty. In a sense, he's the last person anyone would think of.