Werner Herzog News

Werner Herzog is one of the world's greatest, and craziest, living directors. I can't imagine anyone else who would have even wanted to make a film like Fitzcarraldo, never mind be obsessive enough about it to nearly die trying, or to depict themselves listening on headphones to the sounds of someone being mauled by a bear, like in Grizzly Man.

Eva Mendes plays a hooker with a heart of gold in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," a Werner Herzog drama starring Nicolas Cage as an unhinged, crack-smoking post-Katrina cop.

Rating : * * * Verdict : Rambling but fascinating. With his newest venture, endlessly curious German chronicler of the offbeat Werner Herzog becomes the first person to have shot a film on each of the seven continents.

"WE WANTED TO do it in the dark, and we wanted it to feel creepy." While that could be from any of a dozen Werner Herzog films, it's actually Freelance Whales' Judah Dadone describing his band's first public show, at the New York City Farm Colony, an abandoned 19th-century poorhouse crumbling away on the edge of Staten Island's Greenbelt.

The German director Werner Herzog has released two crime dramas in the past month: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , which stars Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, and Eva Mendes; and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done , which opened last week and stars Willem Dafoe, ChloA Sevigny, and Michael Shannon.

Werner Herzog and David Lynch make quite a pair. Herzog, the German-born director of such films as "Fitzcarraldo," "Grizzly Man" and "Rescue Dawn," is a relentless adventurer and the master of external conflict, of man's desire to fling himself recklessly toward the void.

Wiveliscombe a TMS film society, Cinema Obscura will screen their Christmas show, Encounters at the End of The World, directed by Werner Herzog, on Sunday.

There was a point in time when remakes and reboots weren't as prevalent as they are now - in 2009 the offerings included Star Trek , Fame , Friday the 13th , My Bloody Valentine , The Taking of Pelham 123 , and James Cameron's epic mash-up of two films, Dances With Wolves and The Smurfs and the Magic Flute - sorry, Avatar .

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Werner Herzog lets Nicolas Cage off the leash as a crack-addict cop in - Bad Lieutenant' On the set of Bad Lieutenant in New Orleans, director Werner Herzog was alarmed to see Nicolas Cage snorting what looked like cocaine.

A title not to be mistaken as being addressed to the filmmaker by his skeptical dad in reaction to this movie, but maybe should be, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done manages to come off as both baffling and mystifying at the same time.

This week, A. O. Scott gives thanks for the filmmaker Werner Herzog and his 1972 film "Aguirre, the Wrath of God," which looks at the 17th Century conquests of Spanish conquistadors in Peru.

Abel Ferrara's cult favorite Bad Lieutenant was a Scorsese-style exercise in macho histrionics and tortured Catholicism; this Werner Herzog drama plays more like a dark comedy, powerfully alive to the relaxed morality and hothouse culture of its title town.

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my chat with the legendary director Mr. Werner Herzog.

In Hollywood, it's much more likely for everything to go wrong than for everything to go right when it comes to movie development.

Film A short chat and a long journey with Werner Herzog Werner Herzog, director/screenwriter of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, poses at the premiere of the film at AFI Fest 2009 in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Nov.

Police drama. Starring Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes and Jennifer Coolidge.

Werner Herzog is one of the most fascinating figures in film. He's the only director who has made a film on every continent - "Encounters at the End of the World," which received a best-documentary Oscar nomination this year, was a study of Antarctica and its people.

For a journalist, there's nothing more refreshing than talking with a celebrity who's not afraid to let her guard down in an interview, instead of sticking to the guidelines suggested by media coaches the world over.

Werner Herzog wants to make something clear, and if you don't pay attention, the German director is going to get cranky.