a Herzog thread and no mention of "Rescue Dawn"...his latest flick currently in theaters? It's fantastic. Christian Bale plays a vietnam soldier who gets kidnapped and eventually escapes and is rescued...based on a true story.
Werner Herzog
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I'll cosign anything dude does. Especially from above selection: Stroszek, Nosferatu, and Aguirre. Check for Woyzcek too.
My absolute favorite though is Cobra Verde. The last ten minutes of that movie are heavier than anything I've experienced on a screen before. This is also by far my absolute favorite piece of Popol Vuh music.
I also highly recommend Where the Green Ants Dream, and Herdsman of the Sun. Green Ants is a fictional film about aborigines and mining companies. Herdsman is a doc about some wild dudes in Africa.
Loch Ness is a great one for Herzog fanatics. Not his film, but he has a major role.
You can also check him in Julien Donkey Boy.
My absolute favorite though is Cobra Verde. The last ten minutes of that movie are heavier than anything I've experienced on a screen before. This is also by far my absolute favorite piece of Popol Vuh music.
I also highly recommend Where the Green Ants Dream, and Herdsman of the Sun. Green Ants is a fictional film about aborigines and mining companies. Herdsman is a doc about some wild dudes in Africa.
Loch Ness is a great one for Herzog fanatics. Not his film, but he has a major role.
You can also check him in Julien Donkey Boy.
I love Herzog, but I thought Incident at Loch Ness was straight dookie. Real low-level, broad, labored spoof of the kind of work Herzog is known for.
His contribution to Julien Donkey-boy worked a lot better for me (although that movie overall is a mess).
I HIGHLY recommend the interview book Herzog on Herzog. One of the best books I've read in my life, and I'm a voracious reader.
The White Diamond, is really good. I actually prefer it to Grizzly Man, which is great also, but I found the 'grizzly man' so damn annoying I didn't really care that he died by the end.
'Werner Herzog eats his shoe' is amusing, but not all that entertaining.
'Werner Herzog eats his shoe' is amusing, but not all that entertaining.
i started a thread a few weeks ago about it and it was kinda
anyway, i enjoyed it. i watched Little Dieter Needs to Fly again after watching Rescue Dawn. Christian Bale got Dieter Dengler down perfectly, and seeing the real press conference footage of Dengler after was weird because i realized that bale really looks like him as a young dude.
i thought Incident at Loch Ness was corny and irritating. if you want to see a film about Herzog's personality then watch Burden of Dreams or My Best Fiend
i also forgot to mention God's Angry Man which is a short documentary he made about Dr. Gene Scott that televangelist. it's crazy intense and funny
grizzly man was the dream subject for herzog who seems to have a fetish for visionary madmen. i like that he approached the brutality of it tastefully so it wouldn't cross the line to snuff, but he didn't shy away from it either. that scene where he listens to the audio with treadwell's best friend standing by was awesome. i think i teared up in the theater. also the film was funny. it always amazes me when people talk about herzog's films hardly one ever mentions his great sense of humor. Grizzly Man was intense and there are beautiful scenes of nature and whatnot but i laughed so hard when that pilot said he thought treadwell was an idiot for acting like those were people hanging out in bearsuits. or when the best friend talks about how she met treadwell at the restaurant. or herzog feeling the need to include that treadwell tried out for woody harrelson's role on cheers.
I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously. I laughed really hard when they were talking about getting footy of the loch ness monster and that dude comes in with the remote controlled loch ness. Or the dude, "I clean my clothes with wind." Priceless.
I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously.
i know it's a parody. i'm just saying it's about herzog and his idiosyncracies. i just found it kinda hokey and smarmy with all these herzog inside jokes
i thought the whole thing was funny, and i never really felt that bad for tredwell. the 2nd time i watched it i started to really notice how little things he did when he set up his interviews, like how the guy at the museum was standing under the bear while he was being an 'expert' and this giant bear (with a bandage over a stolen paw) was just towering over him.
I don't know if i really got strozek, but i did love the chicken on the hot plate, someone told me that elviis longtime manger "Colonel Tom Parker" was managing a dancing chicken on a hot plate before he found elvis. the music in strozek was great though.
Scariest movie I have ever seen.
Are there 2 Fitzcaraldo documenteries? Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe and Burden Of Dreams? I think WHEHS is the Les Blank one, today is the first I have heard of the other.
I saw Kinski in German B movie called Das Lift about an elevator that goes insane and kills people. No, really, look it up. See the elevator was made in Japan and...
I think it's cool that there is an artist that no strutter is hatting on, so far.
Let's see that Herzog hard as fuck icon.
Hmm. Well, I just loved Das Frankfurter. It was seminal, and really drove it's point home. Started off as a small film, but then teased you with all sorts of plot devices. Then, with the soundtrack's swelling music, the storyline really came to a head during the amazing climax!! A true stroke of genius!
Oh yeah, I also liked Fitzcarraldo.
Oh yeah, I also liked Fitzcarraldo.
That film is the most intense thing i've ever seen.
I didnt even know 'Rescue Dawn' existed until just now. worth seeing?
Wow, just from this post I remember seeing the box for this movie about 20 urs ago. Something with an elevator with blood coming out the door... Curious now!!
It??s a dutch movie from 1983, De lift I think but Kinski is not in it...
My memory is going.
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