― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Rather than say exactly what I think about the veracity of "Incident at Loch Ness," let me tell you a story. A few years ago at the Telluride Film Festival, Herzog invited me to his hotel room to see videos of two of his new documentaries. One was about the Jesus figures of Russia, men who dress, act and speak like Jesus and walk through the land being supported by their disciples. The other was about a town whose citizens believe that a city of angels exists on the bottom of a deep lake and can be seen through the ice at the beginning of winter. Wait too long, and the ice is too thick to see through. Crawl onto the ice too soon, and you fall in.
Herzog has made many great documentaries in his career, and I was enthralled by both of these. He's a master of the cinema, with an instinct for the bizarre and unexpected. After I saw the films, he said he only had one more thing to tell me: Both of the documentaries were complete fiction.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Search God's Angry Man, I finally tracked down a copy of it.
Going to see Incident at Loch Ness today.
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
I just bought "Land of Silence and Darkness!"
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
"FCC MONKEY BAND"
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
or
http://www.generalhaberdashery.com/links/fccband.wmv
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I've never seen a bad Herzog film.
― (Jon L), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
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― grammateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link
yes, I WILL
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
OK
― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, the film was Gates of Heaven. W.H. Eats His Shoe is like the greatest film trailer of all time.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link
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― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― steph jam (steph jam), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YKXQ/qid=1105315485/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-4554796-5040927?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― steph jam (steph jam), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― contribute, Monday, 10 January 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― mm, Monday, 10 January 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 10 January 2005 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 January 2005 02:54 (nineteen years ago) link
"Kinski says [the jungle] is full of erotic elements. It's not so much erotic, but full of obscenity. Nature here is vile and base. I wouldn't see anything erotic here. I see fornication and asphyxiation and choking, fighting for survival and growing and just rotting away. Of course there's a lot of misery, but it's the same misery that's all around us. The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing; they just screech in pain. Taking a close look at what's around us, there is some sort of harmony. It's the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder. But when I say this, I say this all full of admiration for the jungle. It's not that I hate it. I love it. I love it very much. But I love it against my better judgment."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― whatever (nordicskilla), Sunday, 27 March 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Burden of Dreams: this May, on Criterion!
― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 27 March 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― whatever (nordicskilla), Sunday, 27 March 2005 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Monday, 28 March 2005 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― allowed (spaces are allowed), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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― a banana (alanbanana), Monday, 28 March 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 28 March 2005 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost to me (The July narrated one, tbc)I feel like I have seen more than my fair share of volcano documentaries, they all kind of blend in to another.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
Miranda July's voice is like an ointment seeping down your leg.
lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
My wife was gifted a year-long subscription to that Master Class series and I actually watched a few of the Werner Herzog episodes/talks. Pretty fun, pretty interesting.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
It’s not her voice specifically for me — it’s the information/content she chooses to highlight and the twee nature of all of her output. I’ve avoided her work so far because I was pretty sure I wouldn’t like it — idk why I thought this volcano movie would be any different? Joke’s on me!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
hadnt realized Fire of Love was a miranda july joint, glad i dodged that bullet
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
It's not, though. It was written and directed by Sara Dosa. July is the narrator.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
July brings her patented bored treacle vibe to play in the enunciation tho, hard to get past it.the greater sin imo is that we get all this ephemera and personal life presumption but minimal volcanology and meaningful science. after an hour i was still like "yes but WHY are they running around next to volcanos like suicidal idiots"
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
real q - did MJ write the narration or did she read a script written by a different person and/or the director?
honestly for me it was the nature of the movie and the googly-eyed "aw @ their volcanic love" angle/lack of substance about wtf they were doing (as forks describes) that didn't appeal to me. it felt insipid when we're talking life and death and lava.
herzog himself is certainly no stranger to imitation and parody; i happen to enjoy his narration but i can see how easy it would be to mock it. that two such opposing narrators could even exist is somewhat amusing to me.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
people who dislike miranda july are rong imo :(
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
maybe -- i will admit that i am unable to enjoy a certain type of wholesome entertainment.
know what earthly substance dgaf about your enduring volcanic love for each other? churning lava
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
ha, yes.also the pseudo-Wes Anderson direction did this no favors with its manneristic obviousness; killed most of my interest in the leads dead in its tracks
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
> herzog himself is certainly no stranger to imitation and parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_kfWUCFDQ
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
july ain't anymore twee than harry crews
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
that's a weird comparison and i'm a big fan so i'm gonna say no and post this video of crews explaining how to cook a possum as proof otherwisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5kjm9IuIMc
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
we watched some shorts last night. Last Word was easily my favorite because the music was amazzzzzing. Precautions Against Fanatics runner up bc it was so quietly funny.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 January 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link