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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
Found in: Movies, Features, ColumnsThe 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
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWerner 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
Found in: Movies, NewsWerner 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
Found in: Movies, NewsWerner 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
Found in: Movies, NewsWatch 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
Found in: Movies, NewsDavid 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
Found in: Movies, NewsEncounters at the End of the World
"The National Science Foundation had invited me to Antarctica even though...” read more
Found in: Movies, ReviewsDavid Lynch making new films with Herzog, Jodorowsky
Hot on the heels of a different announcement about Werner Herzog's collaboration with Nic Cage comes words of an even stranger paring. The Hollywood Reporter reports that a film co-written by Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder will be produced by David Lynch and his Absurda production company.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsWerner Herzog and Nicolas Cage to update Bad Lieutenant
At this point, legendary German director Werner Herzog has become the Bill Brasky of the film world. Tales about Herzog are always tall, but never exaggerated: Werner Herzog once cooked and ate his own shoe after losing a bet. Werner Herzog once was shot during an interview, and continued on with the interview. Werner Herzog once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it. Werner Herzog once remade Abel Ferrara's ultra-violent, cult-film Bad Lieutenant, and cast none other than Nicolas Cage as the leading role.... read more
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