Werner Herzog films: c/d/s/d

I'm still curious about how this will turn out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/05/werner-herzog-one-shot-lee-child

Casting on One Shot, the first adaptation of a Lee Child novel, has already met with a mixed reaction. Many were up in arms at the announcement that Tom Cruise would star as saturnine bruiser Jack Reacher (6ft 5in, 250lb), a former Army man who travels the world with just a toothbrush and a formidable sense of justice.

But the project's credibility took a dramatic rise with the announcement that the director Werner Herzog is to appear in the film as chief baddie The Zec, a former prisoner of war who arranges a conspiracy which frames a sniper for the murders of five people – a conspiracy which Reacher investigates.

Many news organisations quote a source who describes The Zec as an "ageless and shadowy figure". In the book his age (80) is, in fact, fairly precise, likewise his mobility (he's wheelchair-bound) and the number of fingers he has left (not a lot). He's a silent puppetmaster who commands such power over his subordinates that when he tells one of them to shoot themselves, they do so without question.

bel ami was terrible not just because of robert pattinson but he is a very very bad and rubbish actor haven't seen anything else he's been in

Wd love to see Pattinson give Bel Ami another crack.

Which Bel Ami?

Jack Reacher

To adapt D.B.C. Pierre's novel Vernon God Little, "a coming-of-age story set in Texas about a teenager caught up in the aftermath of a high-school shooting committed by his best friend":

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118061066

Hope he casts Tilda Swinton!

grrrrrrrrr

Let us now discuss "The Sopranos of the Mesozoic": DINOTASIA - the mega-violent, animated dinosaur film with narration by Werner Herzog

http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Content/100830/News/Todays_News_Our_Take/5_fri/100903HappyDays1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSrMmmzzzaU

waht!

That's an interesting way to pass the time, I guess?

i imagine myself watching ten, fifteen minutes of this, stopping, FFing to the same point in fitzcarraldo, and never revisiting criterion cardboard edition ever again.

amazing

Wow, Herzog's AT&T sponsored anti texting and driving movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0#at=30

Yeah, that's heart-wrenching.

i had seen chopped up short psa versions on tv; had no idea that was herzog

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/videos/werner-herzog-tackles-texting-and-driving-in-devastating-documentary-20130809

"What AT&T proposed immediately clicked and connected inside of me," Herzog told the AP. "There's a completely new culture out there. I'm not a participant of texting and driving — or texting at all — but I see there's something going on in civilization which is coming with great vehemence at us."

Gah, I'm never going to txt again just to be safe.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, playing at an exended sesh at the BFI is really one of his v best (along with Fata Morgana). Saw this on TV at 18 or so...on this viewing you pick up so much more on the cruelty, alienation, the failure of knowledge to provide any 'consolation', how downright dangerous its gaining is, through its sharpening of thought and enhanced processing of sensibility.

As for thoughts that Bruno S. was exploited - well, perhaps he was - but here he is so much more of a presence than Kinski ever was.

Looked great, from the expansive looking shots of the country to the grainy shots of dreams (Kaspar's mind will always be obscured). I'm sure the crew from Berberian Sound Studio have more than a passing familiarity with it - not criticizing, its a well known film.

I forgot how straight AND funny Nosferatu is. This is possibly the first time the German-lang version has been screened in the US?

I simply don’t like the culture of drugs. I never liked the hippies for it. I think it was a mistake to be all the time stoned and on weed. It didn’t look right and it doesn’t look right today either and the damage drugs have done to civilizations are too enormous. And besides, I don’t need any drug to step out of myself. I don’t want them and I do not need them. And you may not believe this, big-eyed as you sit here now, but I’ve not even taken a puff of weed in my life.

...I do not refuse it. I just pass the joint on to the next and let them do it. It’s their business. I don’t want to do it. Actually, I was completely stoned once with the composer Florian Fricke in Popol Vuh. I was at his home and he had pancakes and marmalade. And I smeared the marmalade and he started chuckling and chuckling. And I ate it and it tasted very well and I wanted another one and took another good amount of the marmalade and the marmalade had weed in it. He didn’t even tell me. I was so stoned that it took me an hour to find my home in Munich. I circled the block for a full hour until finding my place. So I have had the experience....

There was nothing traumatic about growing up for kids in post-war Germany. Of course it was traumatic for those who were a little bit older who had to flee, who were refugees and fled from the Polish border and were on tracks, and the left and right rape of women, and burnt-out villages and bombs coming down and things like that. A friend of mine who is a painter was in a bunker when the bombs hit his town of Hamburg. Almost everyone perished. And he was there 48 hours in this basement, flooded, and his aunt held him above water level for 48 hours, until they were rescued. The water was almost up to the chin of his aunt, and she held him above water level. So yes, when it comes to that, that is traumatic. And no wonder he became an artist!

http://www.vulture.com/2014/07/werner-herzog-box-set-transcript.html

...I do not refuse it. I just pass the joint on to the next and let them do it.

Tips 4 lyfe..

Can't believe I've smoked more pot than Werner Herzog.

As if I needed another reason to love Popol Vuh! Nice one, Florian.

Florian seems to have been a bit of a prankster, around Herzog anyway

no wonder he became a artist!!!

and whats your excuse you never even did pot lol!!!

I'd like for WH to narrate a documentary of me digging up the root balls and bush stumps along the side of my house. Something mundane but sweaty like that.

I'd like to know more about the lighter side of Florian Fricke, pls!

aguirre wrath of god is amazing, love how it degenerates into a sort of ceci n'est pas un arrow in my leg existentialist insanity. some of the deaths are as blackly comic as any on film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhac0bWENY

"into the abyss" is really underrated. a masterpiece imo. he deals with crushing poverty and the nature of violence and the american prison-industrial complex with the genuine curiosity and empathy for humans+love of strange details that marks all of his best work.

Gunning for an Oscar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ0xy9euq24

That dialogue sounds awful.

Perhaps the people who put that trailer together were trying to tell us how bad this movie is and that we ought to stay away. After watching it, that would make the most sense to me.

i see white people

when was the last decent werner herzog fiction feature?

something in the 80s probably. I assume he just uses his fiction feature incomes to fund his documentaries, which are by far his strength.

I know there are fans of his Bad Lt around here but I was pretty bored by it

"This video is private"

something in the 80s probably. I assume he just uses his fiction feature incomes to fund his documentaries, which are by far his strength.

― Οὖτις, Monday, July 6, 2015 2:23 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i doubt that; it's probably easier for him to find financing for the documentaries than the features, which haven't made very much money lately.

i mean "cave of forgotten dreams" made nearly as much money as "rescue dawn," and the latter must have cost much, much more

when was the last decent werner herzog fiction feature?

Probably Fitzcarraldo if truth be told. Have never seen that Green Ants thing but have it on good authority that it's not very good. The ending of Cobra Verde is great but you have to sit through the rest of the film to get there. Haven't seen anything since.

and Fitzcarraldo isn't that good either

he gets funding from discovery for his documentaries.
last good fiction piece was "my son my son what have ye done" last GREAT was probably "fitzcarraldo"

honestly his documentaries are often kind of formless and lazy these days -- they skate by on the innate fascination of the subject matter + herzog's still-charming persona

that said "into the abyss" was quite powerful

but i'm not a /huge/ herzog fan to begin with

he is a great interviewer and knows how to shoot/frame things = I will always watch his docs

My Son My Son, Rescue Dawn and Bad Lieutenant are all worthwhile in different ways imo, this new one seems like bad news, though.