Ã...rets Hot Docs festival i Toronto var preget av dristige filmer om konflikt og krig, fra Irak til Israel og Afrika. Men indre stridigheter var ikke langt unna takket være festivalens æresgjest Werner Herzog. DA DET BLE KJENT at Werner Herzog skulle komme...

Of that time, there is still much we do not know. Although answers exist to the basic questions--how they fought (viciously), how they governed (variously), how they worshipped (combatively)---there are those among us who warn that no real comprehension of twentieth- and twenty-first-century...

"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 knew it was potent material. Both the editor and I...

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 his dramatic weight loss as a human skeleton in The Machinist, Christian Bale has never...

Herzog's images are reflections of his inner landscapes. Like those Expressionist filmmakers whose legacy he has inherited, he is possessed by dreams so powerful, they can only be exorcised through cinematic creation. The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, Or Every Man for Himself and God Against All, Herzog's mysterious film of a nineteenth-century wild child, can then be seen as a meditation on its subject through a conscious awareness of the classic German film of the Weimar Republic…. (p. 22...

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 the same aria with 'Yes, love is the answer,' this musical parenthesis cannot be denied certain irony. 'Love' is, after all, the non-ironic solution given in several films which at first glance seem to parallel Every Man for Himself. In both Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage and Penn's The Miracle Worke...

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 his awesome visions have best flowered; 'civilisation', where he has treated it, has appeared as an arrogant illusion, a Babel-tower of foolish human ambition; and his heroes, victims of and outcasts from that civilised social norm, have lived their deformed and misshaped lives in some pale, Platonic shadow of the State of Nat...