Tag: Werner Herzog
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Herzog Interviewed
David Marchese interviews 77-year-old Werner Herzog. [T]o go back again to the need for fresh images: In “A Guide for the Perplexed,†you say that our children will be upset with us for not having thrown hand grenades into television stations. I took that to be a criticism of the poverty of television’s visual imagination.…
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24 Life Lessons From Werner Herzog
1. Always take the initiative. 2. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need. 3. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey. 4. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief. 5. Learn to live with your…
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Werner Herzog releases 11,000 hand-painted rats to the streets of Delft. Ratak Mondosico: On his arrival, Herzog went to some pains to assure the press that the film crew were not coming as ‘an invading army’ – but that they might ’cause some inconvenience once in a while’. However, when word got out about his…
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The Real End of Timothy Treadwell
The Onion: LOS ANGELES—Shedding new light on the tragic ending to his critically acclaimed portrait of the animal activist, filmmaker Werner Herzog told reporters Wednesday that he killed and ate Timothy Treadwell in 2003. “I should finally say that during the filming of my documentary Grizzly Man, I mauled Timothy Treadwell to death and then…