Best Werner Herzog Film

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.

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“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

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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.

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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

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Love this alternate poster.

Lessons of Darkness and Fata Morgana really seem like companion pieces, although with the documentary narration vs. spoken creation myth Lessons of Darkness is not quite as surreal

Very excited to screen Aguirre and Stroszek for some friends of mine this weekend

I love both of those films! hope your friends enjoy them

Both classics

both all-time faves, tbh always thought Fitzcarraldo was a drag (hardee har har) compared to Aguirre

yea Fitzcarraldo put me to sleep. Burden of Dreams is awesome though

Aguirre is magic on so many levels; Fitzcarraldo on fewer levels
what a pleasing double bill!! i love stroszek so much and think of it often.

I wouldn't have voted for it, but his 35-minute PSA on texting and driving, "From One Second to the Next," deserves mention as it's outstanding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0

I've seen that and recall it being pretty intense. I think, for recent output, he should have stuck to brutally straightforward docs a la Into the Abyss and the On Death Row series. His weird form of humanism is a good fit for those.

that aguirre poster is lovely

happy new year, losers!

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

― johnny crunch, Saturday, November 19, 2016 9:48 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea i thought so too.

this was cool

seen most of them again

favorite Herzog films:

Aguirre: Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
Grizzly Man
Fata Morgana
Stroszek
Kaspar Hauser
Cobra Verde

also really liked

Nosferatu the Vampyre
Even Dwarfs Started Small

others that were interesting:

Heart of Glass
Stroszek
Lessons of Darkness
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Rescue Dawn

(in the last post I meant Woyzeck)

The BFI blu-ray set is such a steal (most of the 68-87 work) for £35 ish.

The big omission for me is Lessons of Darkness, only available on Blu as part of the $105ish US Shout! Factory set. I probably would have voted for it (just to be ornery) had I been here in 2007.

(xp) Have you seen "Land of Silence and Darkness"?

have not seen it, but it looks interesting

More than interesting - devastating, heartwrenching et al.

I’ll have to look into buying it, I don’t see it available for rental or streaming

MUTTER... ICH BIN VON ALLEM...ABGETAN

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

The Wild Blue Yonder was a strange film, but the score/soundtrack by Ernst Reijseger was great

My Best Friend was an amazing film, it gave a lot of insight into the filming of Aguirre

My Best Fiend, you mean?