Werner Herzog films: c/d/s/d

Herzog dressed up as a leopard seal and chased it towards the poll.

Someone should stop this man.

saw grizzly man's US premiere at the Museum of Natural History and Werner, Treadwell's ex girlfriend ("you must never listen to this") and a bear expert who happened to be a bear mauling victim (face was all messed up) were on a post show panel. During the Q&A after the show, some plucky kid asked werner "What's the point of this movie?" and Werner, with no pause and totally deadpan, replies "What's the point of children."

― weird bibby fetish (forksclovetofu), Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:48 PM Bookmark

Ha, a former roommate was there and related this story. It stuck with me.

Is there a thread for that kids' book, btw?

two of my friends on Facebook are now FB friends with Werner Herzog.

one thing I have noticed about Herzog is that nearly every film he does features a bear or bears.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/388586/june-06-2011/werner-herzog

"He's sort of a fallen romantic -- he doesn't believe in things but he is still reluctantly excited by other people who believe in things"

For what's worth, I think he's more like some kind of Middle Age man (his interest in tradition is never nostalgic), also it seems to me that considering his maniacal attention to notions like truth and human nature he's definitely a "believer", albeit a rather paradoxical one (see also his hatred for postmodernism).

i think of him as deeply humanist and ultimately optimistic in his pessimism; "little dieter needs to fly" is pivotal

Exactly - he's always somewhere between images of utter cruelty and desperation (the dancing chicken in Stroszek, the smoking chimpanzee of Echos aus einem düstern Reich) and the stark humaneness, totally devoid of any sentimentalism, of Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit.
Probably because of some personal reasons, his early TV documentary Behinderte Zukunft about a group of young disabled always struck me for its almost unbearable intensity.

he seems a little too ready to dominate the proceedings in his recent films. in his earlier ones you get a strong sense of his personality without him being all up in your grill.

i saw "cave.." in 2 dimensions and loved it. great soundtrack.

Saw this last night, for me his best since at least The White Diamond.

http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/into-the-abyss

(No bears, and he just interviews, doesn't narrate.)

excited

oh wow, that's high praise; weren't people sceptical about this one, idk why

New reality show starts march 9
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/on-death-row-what-werner-herzogs-prison-series-can-teach-us-about-journalism/

first ep of "On Death Row" is quality Herzog filmmaking but wrapped in odd cognitive Court TV/ID TV/Whatever the fuck they're calling it TV dissonance: each ten minute section is bookended by Paula Zahn intros and ads for Glade and fabric softener.
the show itself is Werner speaking one on one with people on death row in Grizzly Man tones and also interviewing family and painting a broader picture of the crime and the criminal. it's actively anti-death penalty rhetoric but as he puts it at the start of the first ep "that doesn't mean i like them"

this is on in the UK starting on thursday at 10 on ch4

Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man Tones

Cosmic Herzog Grizzly Man Tones For Mental Therapy

His next, Queen of the Desert (about Gertrude Bell, of whom I've never heard) will feature Robert Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/aug/15/robert-pattinson-lawrence-arabia

A bunch of auteurs are clearly seeing something in pattinson that I don't, but okay.

i think they're mostly seeing that he can get their movies financed

even one w/ Naomi Watts? seems like that was taken care of, tho I don't doubt it makes the producers happier.

also the RP solo vehicles thus far haven't set the b.o. on fire.

canks otm

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..