Werner Herzog wants you to expand your mind. When it comes to directors who can straddle both narrative and documentary, Werner Herzog stands above them all. His penetrating gaze and casual wisdom are what make him a treasure to the entire world. My first experience with a Werner Herzog documentary was with Grizzly Man. I found it to be a stunning portrait of a man possessed, and I never got the "Coyote" song out of my head. I followed that up with a few other Herzog movies and made my way through most of his catalog. I think his movies have a lot to say about humanity and offer a ton of lessons. I mean, just watching Happy People makes me really happy (and cold)! Herzog himself is not much of a movie watcher, recently telling the Guardian, "People always believe that a filmmaker would have seen hundreds or thousands of films—if you have a man like Scorsese, for example, he has his own projection room and his own 35mm copies, or [Peter] Bogdanovich, or some of the French filmmakers. They keep watching movies. I don’t. I see about three films per year." Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 24 November, 2020