Has anybody actually seen Rescue Dawn yet?
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:07 (6 years ago) Permalink
So is the hottie Russian chick in Incident at Loch Ness really his wife? Cause I always thought that was one of the jokes.
― goth casual, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:12 (6 years ago) Permalink
I'm going to vote for the bottle of LiquidSilk I bought the day Jeff loaned me Aguirre.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:14 (6 years ago) Permalink
also, the Film Forum sold out his Dieter appearance about 4 hours in advance, despite the lies they told about ticket sales beforehand.
Yeah, that fucked me over too. I'm also pretty sure they projected Les maitres fous from a VHS.
I voted Dieter anyway.
― C0L1N B..., Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:16 (6 years ago) Permalink
I don't think they ever claimed she was his wife. She was just some vague hot young woman he lived with. I didn't figure out this movie was a work of fiction until it was nearly over (I am naive I guess), I can't believe that whole opening dinner party scene didn't tip me off.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:33 (6 years ago) Permalink
I think his wife is young & hot, though?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:36 (6 years ago) Permalink
And Russian... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1365577/
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:40 (6 years ago) Permalink
yeah the description of her in the new yorker profile from a year or two ago seemed to fit.
"people say i've gone hollywood..."
― goth casual, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:44 (6 years ago) Permalink
Fata Morgana so good I can't bring myself to finish it.
― Eric H., Thursday, 24 May 2007 00:25 (6 years ago) Permalink
Kaspar Hauser for me. I'd say it's one of my top 5 movies ever. Nosferatu may be my second fave of his.
Invincible is underrated.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 May 2007 03:46 (6 years ago) Permalink
I'd go fitzcarraldo, but it's close.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 24 May 2007 04:01 (6 years ago) Permalink
fata morgana is underrated, but then again it's only suited for persons of a certain bent. I can't imagine watching it piecemeal, that's like listening to marquee moon in 3 minute increments.
― Edward III, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:18 (6 years ago) Permalink
AGUIRRE
― Joe, Friday, 25 May 2007 01:58 (6 years ago) Permalink
Stroszek is my vote. Because of the totally bizarre (but not in the context of the movie) chicken/music/ski-lift thing at the end, which I think sums up Herzog maybe better than his big epic movies. There's only one director who would would dare or even bother to make a movie with this clearly unstable person. Herzog is a little nuts, and attracted to like, and his sweet and tender relationship with Bruno S. is more revealing than his violent relationship with Kinski. At least, I prefer it. And it's a great movie.
― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 02:12 (6 years ago) Permalink
best herzog performance = julien donkey boy
so true! also i have no idea how to vote. i might go for one i havent seen.
― jhøshea, Friday, 25 May 2007 02:18 (6 years ago) Permalink
which is most of them
― jhøshea, Friday, 25 May 2007 02:19 (6 years ago) Permalink
i voted bells from the deep - that had a nice ring to it.
― jhøshea, Friday, 25 May 2007 02:20 (6 years ago) Permalink
what have you seen?
― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 02:21 (6 years ago) Permalink
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God Cobra Verde Even Dwarfs Started Small Fitzcarraldo God's Angry Man Little Dieter Needs To Fly My Best Fiend Nosferatu The Great Ecstasy Of Woodcarver Steiner The White Diamond The Wild Blue Yonder Wheel Of Time Where The Green Ants Dream
and grzly man
― jhøshea, Friday, 25 May 2007 11:07 (6 years ago) Permalink
no surprises here.
― Jeff, Friday, 1 June 2007 13:19 (6 years ago) Permalink
Well someone voted for "The Unprecedented Defence Of The Fortress Deutschkreuz" - I call that a surprise!
― Tom D., Friday, 1 June 2007 13:21 (6 years ago) Permalink
http://www.roguefilmschool.com/
#
The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals.#
The number of participants will be limited.#
Locations and dates will be announced on this website and Werner Herzog's website: www.wernerherzog.com approximately 12 weeks in advance.#
The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.#
The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.#
The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.#
Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?#
Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.#
Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.#
Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list: if possible, read Virgil's "Georgics", read "Hemingway's "The short happy life of Francis Macomber", The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular the Prophecy of the Seeress), Bernal Diaz del Castillo "True History of the Conquest of New Spain".#
Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.
― deus ex lawnmower (latebloomer), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
"The Rogue Film School is not for the faint-hearted," said the film-maker. "It is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or as wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lock-picking or forging shooting permits in countries not favouring their projects."
― MPx4A, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.
Lol - isn't he making a film with Lynch at the moment? I guess they got on each others nerves.
― dowd, Friday, 25 September 2009 10:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
nah i think he just wants the seminars to get the point. ya know,like lockpicking.
― deus ex lawnmower (latebloomer), Friday, 25 September 2009 10:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
great dbl bill at the Ritzy tomorrow, btw - wanted to see Fata Morgana for a while
http://www.v22collection.com/herzog/26.html
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 24 October 2009 11:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
i watches stroszek last night. really good. the heist scene followed by the grocery shopping is hysterical.
― jed_, Saturday, 24 October 2009 11:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
watched
STROZEK
― FACK, Saturday, 24 October 2009 20:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's his best (and most lynch-y) film,imo
― Zeno, Saturday, 24 October 2009 23:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
strozek just combines such wierd elements together, and somehow it works, but i also love fitzcarraldo and aguirre
― FACK, Saturday, 24 October 2009 23:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love this scene in Fitz:
― Jeff, Sunday, 25 October 2009 00:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
what i liked about srozek the most, is that it deals with social problems of the present - one might call it the Herzog version of social realism.it's a very special film in his filmography.it is also funny and presents Bruno S at it's best. as oppose to Aguirre/fitzcaraldo/kasper which are historical,colder,less emotional movies (though still great).
― Zeno, Sunday, 25 October 2009 00:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
this should have a run-off poll!
― The Viceroy (Viceroy), Sunday, 25 October 2009 01:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
strozek is def. a very special film. I've never seen anything like it. the sad/funny ratio is really well done.
my dad told me that he watched strozek and just started it over w/herzog commentary on right after it finished. awesome!
(commentary is hilarious, of course)
― ( - _ - ); (Alan N), Sunday, 25 October 2009 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
Rewatched The White Diamond last weekend, just lovely; maybe my favorite thimg he's done since Aguirre.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
Overrated
Summer Hours is better
;)
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
The next Rogue Film School will take place on the East Coast in spring 2010. Stay tuned!!
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
explain why I should not apply
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love the scene in TWD where Herzog is telling Dorrington why not having him w/ camera on the first airship flight is "a stupid stupidity."
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
whenev I try to imitate him it comes out like Arnold, but how great would WH be as CA governor?
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
<3 x 1000000000000000
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 16:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
watched Stroszek yesterday (Superbowl? what's that?) - what a goofy little movie. scene w/premature baby = disturbing.
― mark kerfuffalo (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 8 February 2010 16:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's his best movie imo.works like a twisted combination between humanistic social realism and david lynch surrealism
― Zeno, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
― am0n, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't remember any premature baby and i just rewatched it a couple months ago
― harbl, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh wait yeah i do
― harbl, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
Stroszek himeslf kinnda premature baby ..
― Zeno, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
it was overshadowed in my memory by the fart-lighting scene
― harbl, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
what the hell 'even dwarfs started small' is on youtube in its entirety
― am0n, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
music score is sorta bad
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah Into the Abyss completely ruined my night. just deeply depressing on multiple levels. don't think it's one i'll ever return to.
― circa1916, Thursday, 10 May 2012 23:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yoo hooHas anyone read the book about Heart of Glass yet? Every Night the Trees Disappear by Alan Greenberg?
If so,(1) recommend?(2) is the music discussed at all, or just the movie/circumstances surrounding the making of the movie?
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 00:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/jack-reacher/trailers/jack-reacher-theatrical-trailer-30887645.html
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 18 October 2012 08:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
I got the Heart of Glass book (Every Night the Trees Disappear) for Christmas and I'm already halfway done. It's got short chapters/vignettes about the production of the movie (which involved villagers and hypnotism, typically) intercut with excerpts of some kind of treatment of the movie itself. Enjoyable easy reading, nothing about the music yet but at least it's not stuffy/academic (yet).
― passion it person (La Lechera), Saturday, 29 December 2012 17:05 (5 months ago) Permalink
added to wishlist
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 31 December 2012 00:31 (5 months ago) Permalink
I just finished it -- it's enjoyable, and has lots of poignant/puzzling classic Herzog moments. Nothing about the soundtrack, but there's a small bit at the end about the Ancient Music Ensemble that plays on Skellig rock, but I don't even remember that part at all. Guess it's time to watch the movie again!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:36 (5 months ago) Permalink
Oh and there's this hilarious part where Herzog is like (I'm paraphrasing here) "I'm the best person at handling music in movies, I am #1" and then some other guy comes along and says no, he is the worst.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 15:51 (5 months ago) Permalink
other guy is wrong
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 December 2012 15:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
Agree. I just checked and it was Thomas Binkley of the Ancient Music Ensemble, who only approved of the way Hollywood handles movie music. Apparently he spent a large portion of the evening talking about Mickey Mouse, so clearly he cannot be trusted.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
I wish more hollywood movies had used ppl like Binkley/Ancient Music Ensemble!
(wish someone would put out David Munrow's Zardoz score on CD)
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
The Devils too!! Have you ever heard A Walk with Love and Death by Georges Delerue? I trust Thomas Binkley with ancient music, but not so much with talking cartoon mice.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:40 (5 months ago) Permalink
Yeah Walk w Love n Death is a nice example! Delerue did a couple others with that period flavor too... The Borgias (old miniseries) was one...
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Monday, 31 December 2012 16:42 (5 months ago) Permalink
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 January 2013 23:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
happy ppl is a weird title
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
agree, but it has to be a quote from someone in the movie...right?
i mean i'm gonna go see it regardless, don't really care what it's called
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
cobra verde is very underrated
― the late great, Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
floor of skulls iirc
― the dyspeptic Hirax (Jon Lewis), Sunday, 13 January 2013 04:28 (5 months ago) Permalink
i watched the happy people, it was p great, touching seeing this trapper dude out there just being the most competent philosophical guy at one w nature, i guess herzog didnt film it just edited it down from a longer russian mini series and gave it the trademark narration, only complaint the russian translation seemed quite artless and flat
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
Cobra Verde isn't perfect BUT it does have the ultimate Herzog ending (well, that one or Stroszek's)
― Simon H., Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
Is Cobra Verde the one with the big dance number at the end? (never thought I'd say that, but there it is)
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:28 (4 months ago) Permalink
really want to see Happy People, although the Herzog narration in one of the clips I watched was surprisingly annoying and riddled with cliches -- "No rules, no bureaucracy, total self-reliance" blah blah
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, 28 January 2013 03:07 (4 months ago) Permalink
taiga-related, v interesting story:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html#ixzz2JLsEc9A3
― am0n, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:37 (4 months ago) Permalink
awesome story
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:47 (4 months ago) Permalink
seriously, that article is amazing, must read
― this customer is a jerk (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:08 (4 months ago) Permalink
Sent to myself for train reading on phone.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:22 (4 months ago) Permalink
piece is mindbending
― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 February 2013 10:39 (4 months ago) Permalink