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Werner Herzog appriciation thread

Dillinger4 said:
Why is Timothy Treadwell a stupid fucking idiot cunt?

He lived with bears for years and years without a single incident.
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I suppose at the end of the day the bears in the film are still wild animals not something you can treat as domesticated pets.
 
Dillinger4 said:
He lived with bears for years and years without a single incident.
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that film does lean heavily on portraying him as a driven madman. at least one professional in the field has criticised it for downplaying/ignoring his conservation work and his talent with animals.

the way i see it he ignored simple safety measures, based on his own self image as a kind of nature child, and then paid the price.
 
my favourite language other than english* director. Aguirre is simply genius, Fitzcaraldo & My Best Fiend similarly amazing. he's never done an uninteresting film, tho some of them are kinda hard to watch. I've missed quite a few of the more recent ones, tho Grizzly Man was great, and Rescue Dawn much much better than i thought it was going to be.


*(I use that description so as to avoid the great russian silent directors)
 
He is probably not my favourite non-english-language director, but he is up there.

Ingmar Bergman is probably my favourite. I know how twatty that sounds. It isn't for the Seventh Seal, or Wild Strawberries, but for a film called called Summer Interlude, which is probably the most perfectly formed film I can think of. And Persona as well.

Actually, Godard is probably up there as well. But only for one or two of his films.
 
oh, almost forgot to mention Werners superb use of music, everyone should hear more Popul Voh
 
butchersapron said:
Godard is the elephant in the room wearing the emporers new clothes.
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I only like one or two of his films.

Some of them, that are supposed to be considered his best, like Le Mepris, for example, I just think are awful.

But some of his films, like A Bout A Souffle, or A Bande Apart, just feel really fresh and exciting, to watch.
 
*bump*

For anybody that is interested, Encounters at The End of the World has just been released in Cinemas.

Definitely worth a watch.
 
Basically, it is a documentary about the Antarctic, and the scientists who work there.

Werner Herzog takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions. A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researcher's nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to survive white-out conditions by wearing cartoon-face buckets over their heads. Animal researchers milk mother seals as part of their study. Volcanologists offer advice on what to do when a volcano erupts. A pipefitter shows us the anomaly in his hands that he says are a sign he descended from Atzec royalty. A former Colorado banker drives what he has christened Ivan the Terra Bus. An underwater diver shows his colleagues DVDs of apocalyptic sci-fi films like Them! (1954). And -- though Herzog declares he's not "making another film about penguins" -- we meet a penguin researcher who answers the filmmaker's questions about homosexuality and insanity in his subjects. We also meet an individualist penguin, who breaks away from the other birds to run toward the mountains, facing certain death.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824/plotsummary

I have seen it a few times now, I recommend it, it is interesting and beautiful.
 
Kinski's autobiography is a crazy but wildly entertaining read. He was a veeeeery naughty boy.

Herzog's documentary about an exploding volcano on a Carribean island, 'La Soufriere' is very crazy - he goes to the island to film it while everyone else, literally, flees, apart from a couple of people whom he comes across who had slept through the whole thing!
I haven't seen the one he did about a ski-jumper, 'The great ecstacy of the woodcarver Steiner', but I think that's meant to be one of the best ones?
 
Just watched Encounters at the End of the World on Saturday. It made me think that Antarctica would be a good place for an Urban meet-up. :)
 
the barbican is doing a 'directorspective' on him and showing lots of his films about the place - including heart of glass in the glass house at hornimann museum and nosferatu in an old biscuit factory in bermondsey
http://londonist.com/2009/08/film_preview_directorspective_-_wer.php
http://londonist.com/2009/09/film_preview_more_werner_herzog_eve.php
best of all though, he's doing a talk called '"Conquest of the Useless", [which] will see Herzog and his interlocuter, Paul Holdengräber of the New York Public Library, gab over such breezy questions as Was the 20th century a mistake?, Why is tourism a sin?, and How do you move a steamship over a mountain? Herzog will also expound on his love for Fred Astaire, discuss his relationships with such luminaries as Klaus Kinski and Mick Jagger, and "explain why chickens are such hateful animals".'
 
I'd quite like Werner to read me to sleep with his soothing soft voice....he makes horrible things sounds like a lullaby...

'..and then the bears bit his head off, ate his brain and his eyes balls and shit down his neck....'
 
ATTENTION WERNER HERZOG FANS

The man himself is appearing at the Southbank centre next Saturday 3rd Oct - tickets still available.

Talking to Paul Holdengraber, Director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library, Herzog discusses his life, films and the nature of human obsession - from the building of prehistoric monuments to his epic transportation of a ship over a mountain in the filming of Fitzcarraldo. He will also curate the show with a selection of music and clips from his own films and others that have inspired him
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http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar/productions/werner-herzog-49136
 
To me Cobra Verde is the best Herzog/Kinski colaboration, even though it seems to be the leats liked by critics etc. Woyzek is great too, but Nosferatu I found boring and overrated.
 
littleseb said:
To me Cobra Verde is the best Herzog/Kinski colaboration, even though it seems to be the leats liked by critics etc. Woyzek is great too, but Nosferatu I found boring and overrated.
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Loads of things in that film made me piss myself.
Especially like the speed at which that old bandit knocked up the 3 daughters. Most impressive.
 
speed-it-up said:
Loads of things in that film made me piss myself.
Especially like the speed at which that old bandit knocked up the 3 daughters. Most impressive.
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A very moving film imo. Especially the version with Herzog's commentry. It made me understand and appreciate it a lot better.
 
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