Werner Herzog films: c/d/s/d

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So that's a "no" on the Grizzly film, then?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 May 2005 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link

i think it's hard to think of two less similar filmmakers than loach and herzog. loach's 'kasper hauser' would be about the pitiful lack of welfare provision for the mentally ill in early 19th century germany. herzog's 'land and freedom' would have championed the durrutti column.

― N_RQ, Monday, 23 May 2005 07:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Aguirre is really good.

― latebloomer: B Minus Time Traveler (latebloomer), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe I'll watch kaser hauser this week

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 23 May 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

The Grizzly film didn't play at the local film festival, but The White Diamond did. I missed it, though.

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

i think it's hard to think of two less similar filmmakers than loach and herzog.

no, i don't think they are that dissimilar. i'm pissed tho'.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Re: the soundtrack of Lessons of Darkness. Wow, Herzog. That's a lot of soundtrack!

Land of Silence and Darkness = cold, brittle and brilliant

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm watching Burden of Dreams this week.

Has anyone read Herzog on Herzog?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link

haven't watched Kaspar Hauser yet.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link

well you've got the epiphany of a lifetime still to look forward to then. I envy you.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm saving it until I am very old and something about life needs to surprise me

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

sounds like a recipe for a heart attack.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Herzog on Herzog is okay, not the best bio I've read though.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:54 (eighteen years ago) link

not the best Herzog bio or just not the best bio?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

not the best bio, I haven't read other herzog ones

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Grizzly Man is one of the best films I've ever seen.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I loved "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe", especially when they ask him about throwing himself into a cactus to celebrate the completion of one of his movies. He explains that he still has a cactus needle in his knee and the interviewer asks him why he is so self-destructive. Herzog just laughs as if this is the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard and says "it's not self-destructive to throw oneself into a cactus!".

Then he eats his shoe.

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i have only seen 1 herzog film and it was stroszek. it's one of my favorite movies ever! i guess i should find this nosferatu.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

i hope you like it, caitlin

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

caitlin, you are in in the UK are you?

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

no, wrong caitlin

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:49 (eighteen years ago) link

i have only seen 1 herzog film and it was stroszek. it's one of my favorite movies ever! i guess i should find this nosferatu.

I think if you liked Stroszek you should check out Kaspar Hauser next.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

caitlin, you are in in the UK are you?

weird sentence!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

It's sounds like you're trying to get her to lie!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

or hypnotizing her!

― Yes, I have heard of pizza (nordicskilla), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link

look directly into my eyes...

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link

i am NOT british. i'm 100% america!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 29 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

He was an incrdible interview, a brilliant guy whose wit defineds mordant.

SEE: Little Dieter Needs to Fly.

Utterly essential.

― Ian in Brooklyn, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Just finished Stroszek, first Herzog i have seen. It was incredibly good.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link

So, there aren't too many "destroys" on this thread. Anyone hate anything?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost - dancing chicken = best ending to movie ever

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Nosferatu is the weakest of the ones I've seen but it's still no "destroy."

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah the dancing chicken ending blew my mind. I was under the impression there was abt another 15 minutes left because my cd case lied about the length. I was dissapointed because i would have loved another 15 minutes but it really couldn't have ended better.

I have Murnau's Nosferatu but not Herzog's. I do have Lessons of Darkness tho so i might watch that right now.

― jeffrey (johnson), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:17 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.fundamentallysound.org/blog/c.jpg

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

http://bilder.filmstarts.de/verzeichnis/film/filme/s/stroszek/Stroszek12.jpg

― amon (eman), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Ebert: "[Herzog's] crew members hated the dancing chicken so much they refused to participate, and he shot the footage himself. The chicken is a "great metaphor," he says--for what, he's not sure."

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

ok so now i've seen a few herzog films.

my favorite...by far...is fata morgana. i also liked la soufrière, and the short film last words.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:47 (eighteen years ago) link

is 'la soufriere' the volcano one? i liked that. need to re-watch 'fata', didn't altogether get it.

'fitzcarraldo' is a bit shit.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:53 (eighteen years ago) link

fata morgana my favorite too. need to see la soufrière.

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link

The second box set was £9.99 in Music Zone the other week.

Should've snapped it up, really, for the dancing chicken alone.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, you want the zone 1 versh though, is the thing.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 10 March 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey JAYMC, give me my Aguirre back!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:09 (eighteen years ago) link

watch fata first thing on sunday morning with a nice snatch of chalice.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link

chalice *hates* foreign-language movies :0(

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

What's the big deal about "Fata Morgana"? It's not that good.

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago) link

well, i didn't want to come out and SAY it but for future ref, that's what i mean when i say 'i don't understand it'.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link

More evidence for Herzog's beatification committee:

from IMDB:

Oscar-nominee Joaquin Phoenix was rescued from his car wreck last week by German cult director Werner Herzog. The 31-year-old Walk The Line star overturned his car on a canyon road above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood after his brakes failed and he collided with another vehicle. Phoenix was saved because he was wearing his seat-belt, but has revealed he was helped from the wreckage by the 63-year-old, who has a home nearby. The actor says, "I remember this knocking on the passenger window. There was this German voice saying, 'Just relax.' There's the airbag, I can't see and I'm saying, 'I'm fine. I am relaxed. Finally, I rolled down the window and this head pops inside. And he said, 'No, you're not.' And suddenly I said to myself, 'That's Werner Herzog' There's something so calming and beautiful about Werner Herzog's voice. I felt completely fine and safe. I climbed out. I got out of the car and I said, 'Thank you,' and he was gone."

Two days later, Herzog was shot with an air rifle during a BBC interview promoting "Grizzly Man". Herzog calmly stated: "Someone is shooting at us. We must go." The interview continued, however, as Herzog's pants became stained with blood. Herzog commented, "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

video here

― Darryl Roy, Friday, 10 March 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I saw that interview, it could only happen to Herzog!

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

"it could only happen to herzog" would be a great tv show

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

he goes around saving actors, getting shot at, and solving crimes

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

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