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Into the Abyss

Into the Abyss, the latest work from acclaimed documentarian Werner Herzog, lives up to its weighty title. The captivating film takes us into the endless depths of the human soul as it explores life, death and everything between....  read more

2010 Person of the Year in Documentary Film: Alex Gibney

It's safe to say that Alex Gibney just turned in one of the most impressive years in the history of documentary film. After winning an Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side, he shot no less than four complete documentary features...  read more

Werner Herzog reads "Where's Waldo?"

OK, so it’s clearly someone impersonating Herzog, but it’s no less Herzogian. Finding Waldo has never been so existential. There are many great lines, but my favorite is the little aside, “Wait a minute. Who is that man with the beard?….” Some of the funniest 2 minutes and 35 seconds I’ve witnessed in a while. ...  read more

Film Friday: Werner Herzog Goes Nuts Twice (and Other Observations About Crazed Filmmakers)

A new movie called Bronson by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is traveling around the country, three screens per week. It’s about a man (true story) who’s so incorrigible that British authorities had to lock him up in a jail (or rather, a gaol) for 30-odd years. He’s the kind of chap who hauls off and belts people just for being within arms’ reach: school teachers, police officers, you name it. Bald, mustachioed, and hard-knuckled like a carnival strongman, he has no place in a civil society, even though his crimes don’t seem to warrant three decades in solitary confinement, either....  read more

The 25 Best Documentaries of the Decade (2000-2009)

Upton Sinclair, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein may have set the standard for muckraking in the 20th century, but their heirs apparent are as likely to pick up a video camera as they are a pen when they fight the battles of the 21st...  read more

Werner Herzog's Bizarro Nic Cage Flick Railroaded on Theatrical Release

Although it played Toronto with some top critics championing it, Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans has been scheduled for a split-second theatrical run on Nov. 20 followed by a DVD release on Feb. 23....  read more

Werner Herzog: Now Accepting Film-School Applications!

Werner Herzog is now accepting applications for his weekend-long film seminars. For $1450 plus a $25 application fee, students hand-picked by Herzog will attend a 48-hour long seminar with the director, which he says "will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school." Instead, the classes will teach filmmakers "a way of life."...  read more

Werner Herzog Hosts Cooking Show to Raise Money?

Even the most serious film scholar can agree: film auteur and self-proclaimed poet Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, a remake of Nosferatu) is ripe for satire. The larger-than-life director is occasionally shot by snipers in L.A., an occurrence which he deems "insignificant," and "part of the folklore in Los Angeles - nothing really that serious." He has waged "holy war" on television and describes his work as a quest for "ecstatic art."...  read more

Watch the Trailer for Werner Herzog and David Lynch's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done has a pedigree that almost guarantees it an audience (IE: Werner Herzog directs, David Lynch produces), so it doesn’t really matter that this first trailer makes the movie look like a glum, dull retread of other self-serious thrillers. The film follows the apparently true story of a man (Michael Shannon) who acts out a Sophocles play in his head and kills his mother (Grace Zabriskie, from Big Love) with a sword. The cast also includes Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny and Michael Peña....  read more

David Lynch and Werner Herzog's My Son gets a cast

That David Lynch and Werner Herzog collaboration we reported on roughly nine months ago, the digitally-shot, guerilla-style film called My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, seems to have a full cast now. You know what this means: it’s actually getting closer to reality. Cinephiles, is this blowing your mind?...  read more