Many of these scientists had a shocking openness to Herzog’s repeated insistence that we might all be living in a Matrix-like simulation. The Bizarre Brain of Werner Herzog Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic THEATER OF THOUGHT Sharing his brain, Herzog invites us all to bear witness to its tho...
Life is very precious, even right now. —Werner Schroeter, Eika Katappa THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE LAST two decades, vanguard cinema was generally regarded as an amalgam of styles and procedures…
This is nothing short of one of the most unbelievably unique experiences I’ve ever had with a film. Sweat, booze and violence just oozes out of the screen in this fish out of water story of a vacation gone awry. A mild-mannered schoolteacher, John Grant, finds himself deep in the ari...
In his own words, he was the only northerner in a class full of southerners, and in 1987, used his camera to connect with the people he felt more at home with. This took the form of nearby Sandy Hill estate – a jumble of oddly designed houses on the border of Surrey,...
including Debbie Isitt with her critically acclaimed Brit-flick Confetti, starring Martin Freeman and Jessica Stevenson for 20th Century Fox and for the film Ten Minutes Older featuring works from award-winning directors Spike Lee, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Mike Figgis, Jean Luc-Goddard and...
Francis explains, this film is not 'about slavery' (p. 216) nor about the history of the French colonial Caribbean, but rather uses slavery to explore black identity in a Western context. In his essay on Cobra Verde (Werner Herzog, 1987), Rudyard Alcocer builds on the questions he ...
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht*, Werner Herzog (1979, Germany). I prefer the German title to this film, although the version of it I watched this time around was the English-language version. It’s a pretty straightforward remake of Murnau’s film, with Kinski in the Schreck role, and whi...
“Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz,”“A Brief History of Errol Morris,”“Donald Cammell: Ultimate Performance,”“American Nightmare,”“The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera,” and Werner Herzog’s “My Best Fiend.” Kaplan began her career in the documentary division of Home...
His other film credits include: Tim Burton’s PLANET OF THE APES; THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY; Nora Ephron’s LUCKY NUMBERS; Giuseppe Tornatore’s LEGEND OF 1900; Werner Herzog’s INVINCIBLE; JUMPIN’ AT THE BONEYARD; BODIES, REST & MOTION; MURDER IN HEARTLAND; Nicolas Roeg’s HEART OF DARKNESS;...
Happy People, Werner Herzog & Dmitry Vasyukov (2010, Germany). The subtitle of this film, “A Year in the Taiga”, pretty much tells you all you need to know about this documentary. Assuming, of course, you know what “taiga” means. I admit it, I think Herzog is a genius, and ...