Critical Essay by Jan Dawson
Herzog's power as a film-maker has always been primarily a visionary one. Nature, untamed and sometimes even uncharted, has provided the cosmic hot-house in which ...
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Critical Essay by Jan-christopher Horak
Herzog's images are reflections of his inner landscapes. Like those Expressionist filmmakers whose legacy he has inherited, he is possessed by dreams so...
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Critical Essay by David Overby
Herzog has claimed that he wanted [Woyzeck] to look as primitive as the main character, but the film looks not so much simple and primitive as badly made. The images ha...
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Critical Essay by Lawrence O'toole
In visual terms, Herzog's movies define the boundaries of the exquisite; there's an eggshell delicacy to them. He will hold an image long enoug...
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Critical Essay by Tony Rayns
All Werner Herzog's fictions evince a fascination with the mechanisms of human madness—especially those engendered by the will to power—and yet the u...
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Critical Essay by David L. Overbey
Although [Every Man for Himself and God Against All] begins with an aria from Mozart's The Magic Flute asking 'Is love the answer?' and ends in...
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Critical Essay by Jay Cocks
[Every Man for Himself and God Against All] is a casebook of insensitivity. Every character is vigorously and grossly caricatured. The short supply of ideas is presented w...
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"It was like looking into an abyss," said Werner Herzog of the footage left behind by Timothy Treadwell. "Human beings are always like an abyss."
"But," Mr. Herzog told The Transom, "that is how I...
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RESCUE DAWN Running time 126 minutes Written and directed by Werner Herzog Starring Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
From his adolescent debut in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun to h...
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Werner Herzog isn’t a name you usually associate with Hollywood. His niche has always been in the realm of the weird and wonderful, depicting protagonists — both in his narrative films ...
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Michael Bay, producer of the 2005 sci-fi clunker The Island (no, me either), must feel positively—transformed!—this morning after Transformers grossed over $150 million in 5 days and ef...
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 5, the 248th day of 2007. There are 117 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:Fifty years ago, on Sept. 5, 1957, the novel "On the Road," by Jack Kerouac, was...
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The negative of a feature-length film is typically treated with the utmost care, preserved meticulously to produce prints and DVDs.After slaving over his film for six years, however, Paolo Cherchi ...
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I’m a nervous wreck,” said Kevin Connolly, a mere four days before Gardener of Eden, his directorial debut, was to premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. The 33-year-old Entourage ...
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Critical Essay by Jan Dawson
Werner Herzog & The Human Abyss
