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Werner Herzog’s Notes From The Amazon

In 1982, filmmaker Werner Herzog wrote and directed an epic movie called Fitzcarraldo, based on the life story of Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald. In the movie, a man named Fitzcarraldo traveled to the heart of the Amazonian jungle to get to the last remaining rubber trees parcel in a s...

New York Film Festival, Part 3: Werner Herzog as a Plastic Bag and Experimental Russian Animation

Sign Up For Film School With Professor Werner Herzog

Plenty of aspiring filmmakers hope to learn from their idols; few ever get the chance. But come January 2010, Werner Herzog fans will not only be able to study the ins and outs of film composition with the man behind such films as Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and the upcoming two To...

News from Venice – Soderbergh, Romero, Herzog

The world’s oldest film festival, Venice is set to wrap up on Saturday. As usual, a number of important films made their premieres there, and we’ll summarize the reaction for a few of the most highly anticipated. Romero’s Survival of the Dead – Thumbs Up! George Romero&...

Film Preview: More Werner Herzog Events

Seems that the Barbican's Directorspective season on Werner Herzog is only the outlying tree in a verdant forest of films by the German director coming to London screens over the next few weeks. For starters, on Friday the 11th September, V22 are presenting a screening of Even Dwarves Started ...

Telluride 2009 Review: Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant

Not to be confused with Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant from 1992, this newest film from German director Werner Herzog, one of two he premiered at Telluride, is not a remake. Instead, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is sort of a re-imaging, a maniacal, over-the-top tale about a Police Lie...