― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 20 May 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Bob Corso, Thursday, 20 May 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 20 May 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 20 May 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Who has read Herzog On Herzog?
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Tell me about the book, please.
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
No maybe's about it (For "Kaspar" I mean)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I've read Herzog on Herzog, it's amazing.
I've also watched both Kaspar Hauser and Hearts of Glass with the director commentary on. He is amazingly entertaining.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Rather than say exactly what I think about the veracity of "Incident at Loch Ness," let me tell you a story. A few years ago at the Telluride Film Festival, Herzog invited me to his hotel room to see videos of two of his new documentaries. One was about the Jesus figures of Russia, men who dress, act and speak like Jesus and walk through the land being supported by their disciples. The other was about a town whose citizens believe that a city of angels exists on the bottom of a deep lake and can be seen through the ice at the beginning of winter. Wait too long, and the ice is too thick to see through. Crawl onto the ice too soon, and you fall in.
Herzog has made many great documentaries in his career, and I was enthralled by both of these. He's a master of the cinema, with an instinct for the bizarre and unexpected. After I saw the films, he said he only had one more thing to tell me: Both of the documentaries were complete fiction.
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Search God's Angry Man, I finally tracked down a copy of it.
Going to see Incident at Loch Ness today.
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
I just bought "Land of Silence and Darkness!"
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
"FCC MONKEY BAND"
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link
or
http://www.generalhaberdashery.com/links/fccband.wmv
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I've never seen a bad Herzog film.
― (Jon L), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― identity theftor (deangulberry), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― grammateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link
yes, I WILL
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
OK
― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Actually, the film was Gates of Heaven. W.H. Eats His Shoe is like the greatest film trailer of all time.
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Friday, 29 October 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― steph jam (steph jam), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YKXQ/qid=1105315485/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-4554796-5040927?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846
― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― steph jam (steph jam), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/werner-herzog-talks-virtual-reality
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:37 (eight years ago) link
Is there such a thing as a non-virtual-reality story?I think you have to start right there. All human encounters are ambiguous. Even the perfect personal encounters are ambiguous in all societies, in all age groups, in all historical phases. And you see this ambiguity very clearly, for example, when you are on Facebook. This ambiguity, and this definition, is apparently the source of all your questions. Do we already live in a virtual reality? Did Rome, in antiquity, live in some sort of virtual reality?
I think you have to start right there. All human encounters are ambiguous. Even the perfect personal encounters are ambiguous in all societies, in all age groups, in all historical phases. And you see this ambiguity very clearly, for example, when you are on Facebook. This ambiguity, and this definition, is apparently the source of all your questions. Do we already live in a virtual reality? Did Rome, in antiquity, live in some sort of virtual reality?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to Lo And Behold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pv8Qj0Vkbo
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 January 2016 05:49 (eight years ago) link
" I take them as my unpaid bodyguards and let them do battle out there for me. It’s funny because there are Werner Herzogs out there who answer questions about filmmaking and do all sorts of funny things like create films I’ve never heard of."
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 29 January 2016 06:00 (eight years ago) link
I am Werner Herzog, the filmmaker. AMA.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 17 July 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
Nobby Stiles? You're having a laugh, Werner.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/video/werner-herzog-picks-his-favourite-england-players
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Monday, 8 May 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
He had a new one streaming for free on MUBI yesterday, 'Family Romance, LLC', about a company in Japan that rents stand-in family members. Anyone catch it?
Not spectacular, but I liked it, and it was a nice little play with the ideas of what's real and what's fake, and was funny in a rather sad & awkward kind of a way. The company is apparently real and the main guy plays himself in this film, but acting out fictional scenarios devised by Herzog. It's filmed in a very raw style, so could feel like a basic documentary much of the time, and has an odd, stilted, rather awkward vibe as well.
Loved the short scene of the guy in the train station getting a dressing down.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 4 July 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
there was a piece in the new yorker about this phenomenon, no ?
― budo jeru, Saturday, 4 July 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Didn’t get around to watching it, but it’s on MUBI now for members.
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 July 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think that piece was what inspired the film, budo jeru. According to The Observer today it was this one from 2018 written by Elif Batuman that set Herzog to making the film: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry
Yesterday the film had a wee intro from Herzog and a short 10-15 min. Q&A between him and someone from MUBI... wonder if that's included with the ongoing streaming?
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 4 July 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
Saw it yesterday and agreed on its relative strengths. It felt like a scenario in an early 70s film that was transposed to a current setting where it actually happens.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 July 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
Still has the 5 minute intro. Is the Q&A at the end?
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the Q&A is still at the end.
― Lipstick O.G. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 July 2020 21:16 (three years ago) link
the vulcanology film, The Fire Within, is on bbc4 tonight at 9pm
― koogs, Monday, 17 October 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
We're watching WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM on VHS lol. I didn't know anything about it (in spite of seeing most? many? Herzog films) so I wasn't sure what it was about or anything and have been enjoying it so far.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
We also recently watched THE FIRE WITHIN and I really liked it. We tried to watch the Miranda July movie about the Kraffts ("Fire of Love") and I found it unbearable but typically (for me) the Herzog approach was significantly more appealing.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
Lol, i also hated Fire of Love but liked Fire Within! Miranda July's voice is like an ointment seeping down your leg.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link
xpost We tried to watch that one as well and found it equally unbearable. I bailed after maybe 20 minutes, I think my wife lasted a little longer but couldn't make it until the end.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
Where the green ants dream is great but it is in the shadow of Fitzcarraldo (and no Klaus Kinski)
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:50 (one year ago) link
xpost to me (The July narrated one, tbc)I feel like I have seen more than my fair share of volcano documentaries, they all kind of blend in to another.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
Miranda July's voice is like an ointment seeping down your leg.
lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
My wife was gifted a year-long subscription to that Master Class series and I actually watched a few of the Werner Herzog episodes/talks. Pretty fun, pretty interesting.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
It’s not her voice specifically for me — it’s the information/content she chooses to highlight and the twee nature of all of her output. I’ve avoided her work so far because I was pretty sure I wouldn’t like it — idk why I thought this volcano movie would be any different? Joke’s on me!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:32 (one year ago) link
hadnt realized Fire of Love was a miranda july joint, glad i dodged that bullet
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
It's not, though. It was written and directed by Sara Dosa. July is the narrator.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
July brings her patented bored treacle vibe to play in the enunciation tho, hard to get past it.the greater sin imo is that we get all this ephemera and personal life presumption but minimal volcanology and meaningful science. after an hour i was still like "yes but WHY are they running around next to volcanos like suicidal idiots"
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:05 (one year ago) link
real q - did MJ write the narration or did she read a script written by a different person and/or the director?
honestly for me it was the nature of the movie and the googly-eyed "aw @ their volcanic love" angle/lack of substance about wtf they were doing (as forks describes) that didn't appeal to me. it felt insipid when we're talking life and death and lava.
herzog himself is certainly no stranger to imitation and parody; i happen to enjoy his narration but i can see how easy it would be to mock it. that two such opposing narrators could even exist is somewhat amusing to me.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:14 (one year ago) link
people who dislike miranda july are rong imo :(
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:15 (one year ago) link
maybe -- i will admit that i am unable to enjoy a certain type of wholesome entertainment.
know what earthly substance dgaf about your enduring volcanic love for each other? churning lava
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
ha, yes.also the pseudo-Wes Anderson direction did this no favors with its manneristic obviousness; killed most of my interest in the leads dead in its tracks
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
> herzog himself is certainly no stranger to imitation and parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y_kfWUCFDQ
― koogs, Tuesday, 17 January 2023 20:59 (one year ago) link
july ain't anymore twee than harry crews
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
that's a weird comparison and i'm a big fan so i'm gonna say no and post this video of crews explaining how to cook a possum as proof otherwisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5kjm9IuIMc
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
we watched some shorts last night. Last Word was easily my favorite because the music was amazzzzzing. Precautions Against Fanatics runner up bc it was so quietly funny.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 19 January 2023 21:15 (one year ago) link