loved the crocodile coda
― bear, bear, bear, Monday, 9 May 2011 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
this was great, even in 2D (missed the 3D showing arrrghhh)
cave sniffer!
― underrated earl sweatshirt fans i have boned (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
mutant albinos.
loved this, of course. no 3d showing here. is it more expensive to show or something? idgi
― hippy borthday, free wings for u (Matt P), Tuesday, 17 May 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
seeing those cave paintings left me speechless for most of the rest of the day and when I started talking, all I could talk about was the film. so much closer to modern art / impressionism / surrealism than most of anything that's happened since. the scale of time, not just how old they are but the fact they were painted over a span of 5000 years, nearly twice as long as of what we're used to calling history etc
I also found the music a bit too intrusively busy in parts. I loved the expository and the interviews, but still hope the DVD comes with a feature that basically lifts everything out and gives you a good 20-40 minutes of just the paintings. you need more than 10 consecutive minutes of staring at them to even come to grips.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
& loved the ending of course but was didn't even need to doubt this article would be online to google before I even got home
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/browbeat/archive/tags/mutant+albino+crocodiles/default.aspx
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
was didn't even like needta y'know
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
hes playing the villain in the next tom cruise movie
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/10/werner_herzog_will_play_the_vi.html
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
'Into the Abyss' is fantastic. (And, in what might be a first for me with his films, I nearly cried in a couple of spots.)
― vitameatawalloginavegamin (donna rouge), Monday, 7 November 2011 07:27 (twelve years ago) link
I totally bawled in a couple of spots, but I'm pretty easy that way.
― Simon H., Monday, 7 November 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
On his move to acting villainy:
http://www.movieline.com/2011/11/werner-herzog-talks-one-shot-tom-cruise-he-means-business.php
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 November 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
lol@this exchange:Cruise is an interesting actor to me — someone who’s never directed, but who’s instead worked with some of the foremost filmmakers of the last half-century: Kubrick, Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, and many others. Have you met him?Yes.
Also WH the secret Paulette: "Brian de Palma is certainly the better director than me."
― mark s, Monday, 7 November 2011 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
And, in what might be a first for me with his films, I nearly cried in a couple of spots
What, you've never cried at 'Kaspar Hauser' or 'Land of Silence and Darkness'??!?!?!?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 7 November 2011 12:33 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't agree with WH there, but I've seen one great film from him and it's Aguirre.
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 November 2011 12:42 (twelve years ago) link
Saw Into the Abyss yesterday, it was fantastic. I loved the choice of final interview about "living the dash", I loved how congested that guy was, I loved WH's questions during all of the interviews. Everything about this movie chilled my blood, I loved it. I can't wait to see what the other 3 capital punishment movies are like -- I guess there are others coming?
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Sunday, 13 November 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
the other 3?
anyway, on this one:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/into-the-abyss/5892
― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 November 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
i don't remember where i read it, but i read something about how he intended to make one doc about cap punishment, and then decided to spread it out over several movies? maybe i dreamt that.
― the MMMM cult (La Lechera), Monday, 14 November 2011 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
Well, "Into the Abyss" is a whole tapestry, and only part of it is about death row. It's very much about life. I have also filmed some death row inmates for a series of one-hour films for television, which will be called "Death Row." That's very much focused on one person on death row, and no big tapestry of people around it, members of the families of victims, and whatever.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Monday, 14 November 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
god this film is amazing?, is a masterpiece, i think. it's punctuated by absolute testimonial gold but it transcends being a film about the death penalty, or the extent to which that's a debate, by just being so human. i really thought it was gonna be a polemic before seeing, pitching WH's case, but it's just about life, how people can manage it, through the lens of people who really had to go through it & put their effort into understanding.
the humour of a twenty minute run halfway through was such a relief, too, after the yknow cold open kinda crimescene section. but oh man this film.
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Monday, 14 November 2011 05:43 (twelve years ago) link
Is there any love for Gesualdo? I just watched it tonight, and next to Land of Silence and Darkness, which also received 0 votes in this poll, it's my favorite human subject Herzog documentary. The bagpipe scene where the guy was playing into the cracks to satisfy the evil spirit of Gesualdo was just totally O_O amazing, as were all of the professional ensemble vocal performances. Top notch even if that one lady with the red hair was TOTALLY ott.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
It's the next day and I am still thinking about this. The OTT red haired woman is "Milva", apparently? She is truly UNBELIEVABLE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rgBt5EkIKE
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
i need to see that one! looks amazing, and weird. didn't even know it existed til alex ross did his gesualdo article in the Ny-er a couple months back.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Gesualdo is the portrait of a perfect Herzog subject, and it's handled well and concisely. Also, only an hour long.
I really want to post lurid details about Gesualdo, but I will refrain out of politeness.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
yeah he seems like a wild n crazy guy, with emphasis on the "crazy"
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
haven't seen it, sounds interesting
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
feel like there is always more Herzog for me to watch
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Listen to how beautiful crazy sounds! This seems to be Gesualdo's greatest hit, if youtube results are any indicator. (This is one of the ensembles from the movie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_q3EJNUKis
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
hey here's the whole thingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=CBanw2yUPdk
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
my son, my son what have ye done isn't very good
― shur fine (am0n), Thursday, 29 March 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
ha, that one is sitting in my watch instantly queue, i keep suggesting it to my wife and she says hell no. she's probably right.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
its watchable, just didn't do a whole lot for me. produced by david lynch!
― shur fine (am0n), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
been very curious about that one, as I love everyone involved.
― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Gesualdo: Death For Five Voices is probably my sentimental favorite Herzog film. Partially because I love Gesualdo's music so much, but also because it is the perfect subject material for a Herzog 'documentary'. It's been layered and over-mythologized to such an extent that no one will ever know exactly what happened, and then Herzog gets in there with his freewheeling camera and taking a wrecking ball to reality
I watch that youtube of 'Moro, lasso, al mio duolo' a lot. Many recordings of Gesualdo lay on the ambience & cavernous room tone, but it really is meant to be sitting room music performed in small spaces so you can follow every last quirk of each individual voice, so the two performances in Herzog's film are basically two of my favorite Gesualdo recordings of all time
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
remarkably poor grammar in that post, even for me, but go ahead and dig for reality
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 29 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
Bells From The Deep 1
at first, i thought this was balls from the deep.
― kurwa mać (Polish for "long life") (Eisbaer), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
fata morgana is the answer to your question. or maybe land of silence and darkness.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
I loved both of those, but I found the Leonard Cohen songs in Fata Morgana extremely distracting. The Third Ear Band song was good, though. I've probably said that before.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 30 March 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
Also I didn't realize it, but I guess Milva is famous -- http://www.youtube.com/artist/Milva
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 30 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
watching 'fata morgana' was the 1st time i ever really "got" the appeal of leonard cohen
― johnny crunch, Friday, 30 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
The Third Ear Band song was good, though.
... and Blind Faith too
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
I liked it a lot, more than Rescue Dawn or Bad Lt. The first half-hour had me discouraged but it built something powerful.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Friday, 30 March 2012 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
was listening to the 'heart of glass' audio commentary, love this
under hypnosis imagination functions very well. i tested it by having people under hypnosis and i would ask them to write a poem because there is something like poetic language in all of us and of course it wouldn't function if i asked you 'you are shakespeare write me a sonnet' it wouldn't function, it depends on the quality of suggestion so i told the people under hypnosis this 'you are on a foreign island, the first one who sets his foot now on this island for centuries and it's overgrown with uh jungleous butterflies strange birds singing and you are walking through the jungle and you come across a gigantic cliff and upon closer inspection this entire cliff this entire escarpment is made of pure emerald and a holy monk hundreds of years ago spent his entire life with a chisel and a hammer to scratch a poem into the wall of that because it's like diamond and it took him all his life to engrave only three lines of a poem' and i said please open your eyes and you will see it you will be the first one to see it and you will read it to me
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
ha ha ha
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
a finer human could not have been produced by sciencei never listen to the commentary but i appreciate that someone does and then transcribes it for my enjoyment
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
how's the film, btw? i've never seen, & have that ass-backwards impulse to read this regardless: http://www.ipgbook.com/every-night-the-trees-disappear-products-9781569766071.php
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
amazing landscapes, popol vuh, entertaining, hyno-induced nonsequiturs, i couldnt ask for much more tbh
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
uh that should read *hypno*-induced
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
ha. thanks. i've seen herzog's films in a really skewed order, i still have a bunch of the big guns to see.
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
the book looks good, fwiw
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Friday, 13 April 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Not his best movie but sdtk is top 3 PV albums imo.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Friday, 13 April 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
later in the commentary he also said 'i like to use actors who know how to milk cows'
― johnny crunch, Friday, 13 April 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link