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Werner Herzog

A collection of 5 posts
On Movies & Media

Cave full of treasure

In "The Cave and the Cathedral," an essay published in Image, Gregory Wolfe — the founder and editor of Image, and the director of Seattle Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing program — writes about seeing Werner Herzog's film Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and what this
07 Mar 2016 1 min read
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

[This review was originally published at Good Letters, the Image blog.] • Doc Brown might disagree, but Hollywood says you don’t need a DeLorean to visit the past. This summer, your local cineplex is offering time travel at twelve bucks a ticket. In my last Good Letters post, I noticed
22 Jul 2011 4 min read
On Movies & Media

The Best Picture of 2010 So Far?

I once said that I would have liked American  Beauty if it had been all about the plastic bag. Well, here it is, directed by Rahmin Barani: 18 minutes of "too good to be true" ... Yes, that's Werner Herzog as a plastic bag.
25 Mar 2010
On Movies & Media

Badder Lieutenant

The Hollywood Reporter is trying to ruin my day, claiming that Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant is being re-made by Werner Herzog, with Nicolas Cage stepping into the role already owned by Harvey Keitel. But it couldn't possibly be true. Cage would know better than to ruin
13 May 2008
On Movies & Media

Joaquin Phoenix gets rescued by... WHO?

It boggles the mind.
03 Feb 2006
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