Best Werner Herzog Film

music score is sorta bad

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.

Yoo hoo
Has 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?

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/jack-reacher/trailers/jack-reacher-theatrical-trailer-30887645.html

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).

added to wishlist

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!

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.

other guy is wrong

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.

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)

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.

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijkIXXiSW4

happy ppl is a weird title

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

cobra verde is very underrated

floor of skulls iirc

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

Cobra Verde isn't perfect BUT it does have the ultimate Herzog ending (well, that one or Stroszek's)

Is Cobra Verde the one with the big dance number at the end? (never thought I'd say that, but there it is)

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

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

awesome story

http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/karpagafia1.jpg

seriously, that article is amazing, must read

Sent to myself for train reading on phone.

piece is mindbending

KK is actually *relatively* restrained as Aguirre. Love him matter-of-factly heaving the flaming gunpowder barrel off the raft.

As I recall Herzog's explanation was that he liked to film Kinski right after a blow-up, so he would have exhausted his rage but would still be seething.

Making New Year's Resolutions with Werner Herzog

The doc panel anecdote alone sounds worth the price of the book.

Want

“I’m no fly on the wall. I am the hornet that stings.”

Free streaming Herzog, but they seemed to be dubbed and have ads: http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/videos?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=submit&q=werner+herzog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFK3DJ7Kn6s

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/werner-herzog-teaches-filmmaking

http://i.imgur.com/ygTcmeG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7PKL6JU.jpg

Leave Herzog alone qua memes

his new one on the Internet looks pretty interesting

christopher walken also a genius amid a great late period not a joke #fwiw

Herzog is speaking here at the end of the month. Tickets are $55, but I can't tell if it's going to be 'about' filmmaking or if it will be more Herzog-as-personality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9P_sxaaMJE

I've only seen two Herzog documentaries before Lo and Behold, the new one about the internet--Grizzly Man and Into the Abyss. I was wary after seeing the trailer because, in all honesty, his voice grates on me as much as Michael Moore's, and it seemed like there was going to be a lot of him. But he hangs back enough that that wasn't a problem.

Very loose and impressionistic; the story that Herzog chooses to illustrate the "dark side" of the internet seems rather arbitrary and insufficient. But lots of good stuff to mull over. Highlight for me was the Leonard Kleinrock interview; I'd happily watch a whole documentary of him pontificating.

http://rarefilm.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Lebenszeichen-Werner-Herzog-1968-1.jpg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063218/

highly recommended early Herzog film(didn't get any votes in the poll)

into the inferno has some nice throwback herzogian segments & shots imo; the old footage of the french couple looks like faked rear projection, so crazy

also are they showing old eps of duckman deep in the jungles of indonesia? the chicken church looks like king chicken !

http://cdn.deccanchronicle.com/sites/default/files/chicken-church-1.jpg

"Inside, we found nobody in an empty chair pretending to watch TV" is my fave line from this.

John Frum cargo cult at the end = A+

It is has always troubled me when they show footage of that French lava-walking couple. The John Frum leader's son talking about his unshakeable faith when spending a night in the volcano was sure something.

just watched “Aguirre, The Wrath of God”. I hadn’t seen it in years, loved the descent into the surreal! I was again initially put off by conquistadors in Peru speaking German, but acclimated, in the end it was a minor quibble

the effects of hardships endured by cast/crew in this film really added to its sense of closing walls