Filmmaker: Werner Herzog

by **enframed** on Tue May 01, 2007 4:36 pm

i looked for a poll on herzog as a whole and couldn't find one so apologies if i'm just a luddite and this is a repeat.

after seeing ten or so films my vote is emphatically not crap.

by **Eierdiebe** on Tue May 01, 2007 6:28 pm

NOT CRAP.

by **Minotaur029** on Tue May 01, 2007 6:57 pm

I voted NC...but I'm tempted to vote crap because he didn't play the Timothy Treadwell getting eaten by a bear audio. Call me insensitive...but I'm curious as to what a crazy man getting eaten by a bear sounds like.

by **skatingbasser** on Tue May 01, 2007 9:19 pm

Ya kidding? Not Crap!

by **Steve V.** on Tue May 01, 2007 10:28 pm

Not crap, if only for the fact that Stroszek was the last thing Ian Curtis watched before he did the rope around the throat deal.

His films are incredible.

by **enframed** on Wed May 02, 2007 11:23 am

skatingbasser wrote:Ya kidding? Not Crap!

nah, i wasn't kidding. i know people, filmies, who like herzog himself, what he stands for (?) but not his films. from what i've seen and read i like him and his films.

by **placeholder** on Wed May 02, 2007 11:27 am

Herzog is my favorite director.

Emphatically NOT CRAP.

Website · by **Mama Clortho** on Wed May 02, 2007 1:52 pm

I recently saw him interviewed on the Henry Rollins Show (!?). While somewhat brief, it is always great to hear him speak about...well, anything. Considering his body of work, you would expect him to at least have a tiny bit of pretension. Yet, he is probably the most unassuming film maker I've come across.

Oh, here's a link to the interview on the Rollins show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4i5WkkXdmc

by **enframed** on Wed May 02, 2007 2:41 pm

good interview. herzog rules.

ever seen "my best fiend" about him and klaus kinski? classic.

regarding henry rollins. my favorite rollins tidbit is when beavis and butthead decide that rollins looks exactly like jim rockford.

by **Eierdiebe** on Wed May 02, 2007 3:16 pm

Mama Clortho wrote:Yet, he is probably the most unassuming film maker I've come across.

These days he is, at least in public, but I'd hesistate to say Herzog has always been unassuming. For instance, ever seen Burden of Dreams?

by **rayj** on Thu May 03, 2007 12:01 am

Definitely not crap. Did anyone read that interview where he got shot by someone when meeting up with the interviewing journalist? It was just a wing with a pellet gun/.22 at-long-range, but he just shrugged it off to 'those troubled kids' and started up the interview...

by **Ernest** on Thu May 03, 2007 12:04 am

Steve V. wrote:Not crap, if only for the fact that Stroszek was the last thing Ian Curtis watched before he did the rope around the throat deal.

His films are incredible.

I've got to see what the fuss is about.

by **KeithV** on Thu May 03, 2007 12:35 am

I'm a huge fan. Not Crap, without a doubt...

That said, I often find it hard to watch a Herzog film with other people in the room. I have to watch them when I'm alone, otherwise I just get really edgy...

The scenes of Stroszek that were shot in Wisconsin kind of connect two parts of my brain together...

by **BClark** on Thu May 03, 2007 1:15 am

just saw a very interesting documentary called Burden of Dreams, which deals with herzog a lot. its sort of a "making of" documentary about his film Fitzcarraldo with Klaus Kinski.

by **cervixFORaHEart** on Thu May 03, 2007 1:31 am

NEWSFLASH: ian curtis killed himself because he wanted to die...it had nothing to do with herzogs movie....get over it already.

by **Eierdiebe** on Thu May 03, 2007 4:09 am

rayj wrote:Did anyone read that interview where he got shot by someone when meeting up with the interviewing journalist? It was just a wing with a pellet gun/.22 at-long-range, but he just shrugged it off to 'those troubled kids' and started up the interview...

Yeah, I remember hearing about that and thinking it was literally the funniest thing that ever happened. I think Herzog is a legend among legends among legends. He's the real deal.

by **sunlore** on Thu May 03, 2007 4:41 am

rayj wrote:Did anyone read that interview where he got shot by someone when meeting up with the interviewing journalist? It was just a wing with a pellet gun/.22 at-long-range, but he just shrugged it off to 'those troubled kids' and started up the interview...

"It's not a significant bullet."

by **Radio_Birdman** on Mon May 07, 2007 8:06 pm

Wim Wender's Kings of the Road blows away any of his movies.

by **Ace** on Mon May 07, 2007 8:20 pm

Herzog's Aguirre is my favorite film, or if it isn't it is certainly up there, but he cannot make a good movie without another person. Be it Kinski (the best), Bruno S., or Deiter Dengler, Herzog isn't self sufficient like, let's say, Fassbinder, who I think is the most talented of the German new Wave directors.

As for Wim Wenders? Maybe if all of his movies were cut in half. He has Bruno Ganz and Nick Cave going for him, but the rest? zzzzzzzzzzz...

by **Radio_Birdman** on Mon May 07, 2007 8:33 pm

Ace wrote:Herzog's Aguirre is my favorite film, or if it isn't it is certainly up there, but he cannot make a good movie without another person. Be it Kinski (the best), Bruno S., or Deiter Dengler, Herzog isn't self sufficient like, let's say, Fassbinder, who I think is the most talented of the German new Wave directors.

As for Wim Wenders? Maybe if all of his movies were cut in half. He has Bruno Ganz and Nick Cave going for him, but the rest? zzzzzzzzzzz...

Obviously you haven't seen Kings of the Road. It is still better than any Herzog combined.

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