Werner Herzog News

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.

German director Werner Herzog will head the jury at the 2010 Berlin film festival, organizers said on Thursday.

German director Werner Herzog says it's a mistake he'll have to live with. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Carlo Allegri Director Werner Herzog, left, and actor Nicolas Cage pose for a portrait at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto.

During his remarkable 40-year career, Werner Herzog has made some of world cinema's boldest films -- including Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Stroszek , Fitzcaraldo , and a remake of Nosferatu .

Clip from 'Encounters At The End Of The World', Werner Herzog, 2007. The film crew meet a very peculiar penguin.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , opening in theaters on November 20th, may share it's name with the 1992 Harvey Keitel film Bad Lieutenant but as far as director Werner Herzog is concerned, that's all they share.

Bad Lieutenant was a critical hit in Toronto, but director Werner Herzog says that doesn't mean much.

Many of us have had to eat our words; few have eaten our shoes. In 1978, German personality and New Wave director Werner Herzog did both after losing a bet with fellow filmmaker Errol Morris.

In "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Nicolas Cage portrays a cop of unwavering commitment: He never lets his duty to protect and serve stand in the way of a hard-core drug binge.

Since his surprising move to Los Angeles nearly a decade ago, German director Werner Herzog has been on a tear.

A new movie called Bronson by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn is traveling around the country, three screens per week.

Werner Herzog is crazy and brilliant and German. He's had a random and illustrious career which has taken him to South America, Bear Country, The End of the World and now lands him squarely in New Orleans.

ET is with Eva Mendes at the Hollywood premiere of her new film 'The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' and the actress describes this film as ironically funny and her character as flawed and layered.