Werner Herzog
The Mandalorian delivered audiences and filmmakers a visual effects breakthrough. And because of it, visual effects are likely changing forever.
The kind of film that could only come from the mind of Werner Herzog, Family Romance, LLC is absolutely fascinating.
Moment to moment The Mandalorian is a quick show but on an episode to episode basis it’s exceptionally slow.
Before this year’s LFF kicks off, the Film Inquiry team took a look at acclaimed documentaries, and some unusual festival favourites.
Meeting Gorbachev is the latest documentary from legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog. Read the review for more information on the fascinating man.
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin was more a work of personal catharsis for director Werner Herzog more so than an informative documentary for us.
In the first part of Trash Caviar in which Julian Rosenthal inspects the finest of trash, he recalls Nicolas Cage’s off-the-wall character in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
We discuss five films that epitomize the New German Cinema and provide an accessible entryway into one of the most intriguing movements in cinema history.
With its shallowness of character and its failed continuity of plot, Queen of the Desert is a film made as if to remind us of why we call films ‘pictures’, since the only good thing about the film is its mise-en-scenes.
In multiple languages, and in roles both large and small, Bruno Ganz has managed to bring an empathetic grace to every character he plays.
Salt and Fire is an alluringly ambiguous environmental thriller by Werner Herzog, featuring purposefully stilted and brilliant performances.
Salt and Fire tells the story of a group of scientists who travel to South America to investigate an ecological disaster.
In the fifties, Tex Avery made a series of shorts for MGM collectively called “The World of Tomorrow” in which the animator imagined what wonders the kitchen appliances, automobiles and society of the future will offer. The cartoons present with one fantastical gadget after another, all quite utilitarian, but with tongue firmly planted in cheek. The message is clear, technology may be our salvation, but left in the hands of man there will always be something to muck up.
It’s a Werner Herzog documentary. So you’re sold, right? Okay, so not everyone’s as gung ho about the raspy filmmaker’s inquisitive wanderings as I am, but putting that man in the director’s chair guarantees a few things about Lo and Behold:
There have been an abundance of actor, actress and director collaborations throughout the history of cinema. One of the first collaborations in Hollywood was that of director D.W Griffth and actress Lilian Gish, who worked together on over thirty films throughout the 1910s and 1920s.
