Werner Herzog

[TheBeatGoes]

Grizzly Man is my shit, what old Werner Herzog should i check out? It's like getting into p-funk, you know you like that shit but you don't know where you should jump in. also check out this Grizzly Man IMDB trivia:

During a BBC interview about the film, Herzog was shot with an air rifle. The interview was resumed indoors and at the end Herzog was encouraged to check his wound. Though there was "a bruise the size of a snooker ball, with a hole in it." Herzog declared "It was not a significant bullet. I am not afraid."

 

[Hotsauce84]

 

[hcrink]

Aguirre

 

[fishmongerfunk]

why are people trying to shoot a mild mannered documentarian? the interviewer alludes to other prior incidents.

grizzly man was great.

 

[G_Balliando]

Isn't there a graemlin with this dude floating around somewhere?

 

[SoulOnIce]

Aguirre

 

[TheBeatGoes]

it's thursday night and the weekends near,
i need to unwind where's the party
ALL THE SOUL STRUT...night crewww

i'm going to check out that Aguirre, i am a friend of the library

also here is a link to him on Terry Gross's show this week: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12225074

 

[skatta]

Just checked Mein liebster Feind last night. It's a document of the friendship between Herzog and Kinski with some really interesting behind the scenes footage of Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo etc.. Now I knew Kinski was a bit odd but had no idea he was THIS odd. Almost everyone he worked with seemed to hate him. If you liked Grizzly man you'll probably like this one too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200849/

 

[edith head]

cosign aguirre wrath o god but also little dieter needs to fly, my best fiend &
stroszek

white people like grizzly man because it makes werner herzog seem like stephen spielberg

 

[roisto]

Grizzly Man is so amazing, disturbing and beautiful at the same time. Aguirre is great, so is Fitzcarraldo. And the document he did on Kinski is

 

[spc]

Just checked Mein liebster Feind last night. It's a document of the friendship between Herzog and Kinski with some really interesting behind the scenes footage of Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo etc.. Now I knew Kinski was a bit odd but had no idea he was THIS odd. Almost everyone he worked with seemed to hate him. If you liked Grizzly man you'll probably like this one too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200849/

You should also check out his auto-biography, interesting book.

 

[muggi]

Nosferatu

 

[robert_murt]

Just checked Mein liebster Feind last night. It's a document of the friendship between Herzog and Kinski with some really interesting behind the scenes footage of Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo etc.. Now I knew Kinski was a bit odd but had no idea he was THIS odd. Almost everyone he worked with seemed to hate him. If you liked Grizzly man you'll probably like this one too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200849/

The moment when he explains that indians proposed to kill Kinski for him in the jungle is priceless..

 

[DrJoel]

Fitzcarraldo is a definite. Pretty crazy. Also....as you watch thank your lucky stars that Mick Jagger ended up having to be replaced in the film.

 

[edith head]

Grizzly Man is so amazing, disturbing and beautiful at the same time.

yeah i'm just playing, i liked it too. it was just odd walking into a blockbuster once and seeing a whole wall of grizzly man in the new releases.

 

[Brian]

the actual grizzly man kinda irritated the shit out of me but hearing about his life and werner's perspective on him really made it worth watching.

 

[erewhon]

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Lessons of Darkness are also musts.

Even Dwarfs Started Small doesn't have the best rep, but I like it a lot.

 

[jazzercism]

The soundtrack to Aguirre is so good. Probably my second favorite Popol Vuh work after In den Garten Pharaos.

 

[piedpiper]

Aguirre is the real shit. The first minutes of the film are just blazing. I also enjoyed the Version with the comments of Herzog in the background as he tries to explain a lot of things and his relationship with Kinski. I also like his Nosferatu version, because Kinski is

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[aleit]

Herzog is a director you really should check out across the course of his career as his filmaking evolves...

i dig the following:

Fitzcarraldo (esssential, also see the film he did about the filming of Fitzcarraldo) "I WILL BUILD MY OPERA HOUSE!!!"

Aguirre
Nosferatu
Heart of Glass (Herzog had the entire cast hypnotized for the duration of the filming)
Mystery of Kasper Hauser
Stroczek (too lazy to check spelling here)
a ton more...


sure you could find a link somewhere but folks should check out an interview he did w/ terry gross on Fresh Air maybe 7 or 8 years ago... it is seriously beyond fucked. Gross can't deal w/ Herzog and i think she even ended the interview early... Herzog tells of having walked the entire length of the albanian border to prove his love to an albania girl as a teenager (granted the perimeter isn't that long)... also love his anecdote about rewarding his cast w/ a bet when filming (?????) and literally running full speed into a cactus for finishing the filming on schedule...

oh and of course, his statement that he would rather jump off the golden gate bridge than look into his eyes in the mirror...

part of it is his over-dramatic affect... but Kinski and Herzog had such volatile relationship b/c they were both nuts and possibly megalomaniacs.