canks otm
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
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
― conrad, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Wd love to see Pattinson give Bel Ami another crack.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
Which Bel Ami?
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Jack Reacher
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
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
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
Hope he casts Tilda Swinton!
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
grrrrrrrrr
― crazy uncle in the attic (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Let us now discuss "The Sopranos of the Mesozoic": DINOTASIA - the mega-violent, animated dinosaur film with narration by Werner Herzog
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Content/100830/News/Todays_News_Our_Take/5_fri/100903HappyDays1.jpg
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSrMmmzzzaU
― Jeff, Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
waht!
― arby's, Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link
That's an interesting way to pass the time, I guess?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
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.
― arby's, Thursday, 30 May 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
amazing
― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 May 2013 04:49 (ten years ago) link
Wow, Herzog's AT&T sponsored anti texting and driving movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0#at=30
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 August 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that's heart-wrenching.
― Plasmon, Friday, 9 August 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
i had seen chopped up short psa versions on tv; had no idea that was herzog
― blinded by aggro (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 10 August 2013 02:31 (ten years ago) link
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."
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 August 2013 06:27 (ten years ago) link
Gah, I'm never going to txt again just to be safe.
― Jeff, Saturday, 10 August 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 August 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
I forgot how straight AND funny Nosferatu is. This is possibly the first time the German-lang version has been screened in the US?
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 7 November 2013 03:28 (ten years ago) link
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
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
...I do not refuse it. I just pass the joint on to the next and let them do it.
Tips 4 lyfe..
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Can't believe I've smoked more pot than Werner Herzog.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
As if I needed another reason to love Popol Vuh! Nice one, Florian.
― bert streb, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
Florian seems to have been a bit of a prankster, around Herzog anyway
― We cry crows craws (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 09:27 (nine years ago) link
no wonder he became a artist!!!
and whats your excuse you never even did pot lol!!!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 6 August 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
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.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 6 August 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
I'd like to know more about the lighter side of Florian Fricke, pls!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
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
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Friday, 3 April 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhac0bWENY
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 7 May 2015 04:09 (eight years ago) link
"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.
― slam dunk, Thursday, 7 May 2015 05:18 (eight years ago) link
Gunning for an Oscar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ0xy9euq24
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 6 July 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
That dialogue sounds awful.
― Rouge Trooper (dowd), Monday, 6 July 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Aimless, Monday, 6 July 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
i see white people
― nose, Monday, 6 July 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
when was the last decent werner herzog fiction feature?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
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, 6 July 2015 19:23 (eight years ago) link
I know there are fans of his Bad Lt around here but I was pretty bored by it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 July 2015 19:24 (eight years ago) link
"This video is private"
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
― 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.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
i mean "cave of forgotten dreams" made nearly as much money as "rescue dawn," and the latter must have cost much, much more
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
and Fitzcarraldo isn't that good either
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
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"
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
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
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 6 July 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
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
― Οὖτις, Monday, 6 July 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link