Mao5 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 (edited) Herzog's movies are strange, messy and ecstatic, a far cry from the chilly aloofness of Kubrick. In both his feature films and his documentaries, Herzog uses his camera to uncover new layers of nature, experience and the human psyche. And there have been few filmmakers more willing to shoot films in rugged, exotic places as Herzog from Antarctica to the Amazonian rainforest. In fact, a number of his most notorious shoots seem more designed to test the endurance of the cast and crew than to produce a movie. His film Fitzcarraldo, for example, is about a guy who has the visionary idea to haul a riverboat over a mountain in the Amazon rainforest. Herzog decided, for the purposes of realism, that he would actually drag a riverboat over a mountain. The production, which is in the running for the most miserable film shoot ever, is the subject of the absolutely riveting documentary The Burden of Dreams. At point one in the doc, Herzog quips, I shouldnt make movies anymore. I should go to a lunatic asylum. And by the end of the movie, you think that hes probably right. Of course, that crazed bravura has always been at the center of Herzogs mystique. After all, this is the guy who actually ate a shoe after losing a bet with documentary filmmaker Errol Morris. source: http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/werner-herzog-picks-his-5-favorite-films.html Filmography (fiction feature films): Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2007) The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Aguirre, the wrath of god (Music by Popol Vuh) Edited January 12, 2015 by Mao5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I've seen and love Nosferatu The Vampyre, that's absolutely wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 I've seen Rescue Dawn, and My Son My Son; both were great, both had Herzogness to them, especially My Son My Son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Check out Nosferatu, the whole movie is on youtube (I can't seem to link anymores)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLegend Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Fitzcarraldo is amazing. Really stunning, if it was in English it'd be widely considered one of the greatest films ever made 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I've seen and love Nosferatu The Vampyre, that's absolutely wonderful.Klaus Kinski was so repulsive yet appealing in that film. One of the closer depictions of Stoker's Dracula.Nosferatu is one of the better remakes. In many ways it is better than the original. Kinski is up there with Lugosi, Schrek, Lee and Oldman for Dracula. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Grizzly Man is where it's at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Grizzly Man is where it's at.I like that scene were Herzog out of his own morbid curiosity listens to the audio of the guy and his girlfriend getting eaten alive and it left him disturbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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