Werner Herzog films: c/d/s/d

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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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

i hope you like it, caitlin

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

caitlin, you are in in the UK are you?

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

no, wrong caitlin

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

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 (twenty years ago)

caitlin, you are in in the UK are you?

weird sentence!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

or hypnotizing her!

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

look directly into my eyes...

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

xpost - dancing chicken = best ending to movie ever

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

Hey JAYMC, give me my Aguirre back!

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

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

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

chalice *hates* foreign-language movies :0(

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

with an unhinged kinski-esque sidekick

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

who's always trying to kill him

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

dear slocki, i regret to inform you that a joke very similar to the one you posted above had in fact been posted earlier this year:

Somebody should make a road movie starring Werner Herzog and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Drivin' around the countryside, robbin' banks and/or solvin' crimes

-- kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (jdsalmo...), February 3rd, 2006 10:59 PM. (link)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

turn in your badge

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

i'm off the case?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but c'mon, you're a loose cannon, we know'll you can solve the case while being suspended.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

this one goes right to the top.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:13 (twenty years ago)

"Face it, s1ocki, this Herzog character's been runnin' rings round you, he's laffin' at you... it's like he thinks he's untouchable now, you shoot this guy he gets right back up and carries on with the BBC interview to promote "Grizzly Man". You're off the case s1ocki, as of now..."

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

re: fata: foreign language? the film's practically all music!

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Stroszek! My new favorite movie ever!
Now I've seen Little Dieter, Grizzly Man, Aguirre, and Kaspar Hauser. What I want to know is, what's with this guy? Doesn't he ever make a bad film?

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately, he's made nothing but bad feature films since "Fitzcarraldo"

― Rotatey Diskers With Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Favorite so far (haven't seen the bulk of his famous ones, including Fata) is Land of Silence and Darkness.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 March 2006 18:44 (twenty years ago)

re: fata: foreign language? the film's practically all music!

well, there's also lotte eisner reciting the popul vuh....

i have to say, i can't defend this film on the grounds of their being some overall thematic coherence that eludes one on first viewing. each image is a really potent example of the real and the inexplicable. and the music and the recitation just works. as a kind of trance-inducing mechanism. i dunno...recommended for those who like michael snow, i guess. i love it.

― amateurist0, Friday, 10 March 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

although the film IS available with an english-language VO, the man's voice is hardly as trance-enducing as lotte eisner's.

interesting, the sort of abitrary relation b/t sound and image in this film means that watching it with herzog's commentary track isn't really like, uh, watching a film with a commentary track...it's like watching a film with a different soundtrack. another film.

― amateurist0, Friday, 10 March 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

wow, I think I've only seen the one with herzog's commentary, on a timecoded VHS a long time ago. I'm renting it again tonight for the other version.

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

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