Werner Herzog's 'Into The Abyss'

werner herzog is amazing director, one of my favorites. this looks very interesting

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1972663/

more human drama eh. i want to see cave of forgotten dreams first.

to my knowledge i don't think i've seen a werner herzog film.

*feels a storm storm a-brewin*

yeah id definitely see this.

fina

lly saw Encounters at the End...and I loved it...typical Herzog, flips a documentary about "antartica" on its head. i do think herzog is one of my fave filmmakers of all time. gonna check this one out.

im surprised Herzog's last fictional movie got little to zero attention on this forum with so many fans of his here. his remake of bad lieutenant completely overshadowed what seemed like a potentially better movie.

strange and brilliant film bad lieutenant is. cage is wonderful. also, 'my son, my son, what have ye done?', equally as strange, it might well be the lesser of the two films. produced by david lynch

  On 11/6/2011 at 8:50 PM, Awepittance said:

im surprised Herzog's last fictional movie got little to zero attention on this forum with so many fans of his here. his remake of bad lieutenant completely overshadowed what seemed like a potentially better movie.

tbh im still catching up on his old films. the man makes one or two films a year.

Man I loved Encounters. Bad Lieutenant was weirdly shot. Less raw than the original movie I guess, though more of a dreamy vibe.

Cave of forgotten dreams is the next best movie I will see in 3d, that's for sure. Hope it'll be out here soon.

bad lieutenant was not a remake

and my son my son what have you done was his best non-documentary in a long time.

can't wait to see the new one.

i've been on a herzog binge lately...watched "lessons in darkness" yesterday, and "encounters at the end of the world" today. plus all the old kinski films..aguirre, fitzcarraldo etc. over the last few weeks. (pro-tip: watching aguirre stoned is one of the best things cinema has to offer).

can't wait for this one

  On 11/6/2011 at 10:12 PM, dese manz hatin said:

i've been on a herzog binge lately...

watch the ride, prikface

watch ur steps m8 or u gonna get murked

rassclot

  On 11/6/2011 at 10:37 PM, dese manz hatin said:

watch ur steps m8 or u gonna get murked

 

rassclot

i read that in a stern German accent

you're the first person ever to say that, gr8 m8

  On 11/6/2011 at 10:44 PM, dese manz hatin said:

you're the first person ever to say that, gr8 m8

keeping it herzog: http://derangedpinguin.ytmnd.com/

I love the part on Encounters where is his thick accent asked the question we all ask ourselves " what if the ape had climbed up on the donkey and rode off into the sunset?"

why's he so indifferent to nature? am i wrong to take that from the 2 or so documentaries i've seen from him?

he's not at all. He reveres nature.

He reveres it for IT'S indifference towards him, towards Timmy Treadwell, towards Aguirre, towards Fitzcarraldo, towards Dieter Dengler, towards a penguin...

ahh that's more like it. i need to sit down and watch, and actually concentrate to, one of his films for a change.

  On 11/6/2011 at 10:02 PM, kinski said:

bad lieutenant was not a remake

sure sure, i'd believe that if i could somehow erase my own memory of watching the original. I find it funny when people treat artists as infallible people, like those who believe Aphex Twin invented acid techno or that Herzog's bad lieutenant is a completely original piece of work and is not a 'remake'

i personally think Herzog is whimsical and he likes to make up stories for the fun of it. I forgot which movie it was but he made up a myth about local townspeople thinking a hidden city was underneath the ice. Apparently he completely made up this part but nonetheless actually stood on top of a very dangerous unstable patch of ice to hoax this. I find it extremely difficult to believe that a filmmaker like him would not watch the original Bad Lieutenant, and am i the only one here who thinks the seal sounds in Journeys was faked too?

Best Herzog films...

The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner

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Land of Silence and Darkness

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Stroszek

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  On 11/7/2011 at 2:21 AM, Awepittance said:

  On 11/6/2011 at 10:02 PM, kinski said:

bad lieutenant was not a remake

 

sure sure, i'd believe that if i could somehow erase my own memory of watching the original. I find it funny when people treat artists as infallible people, like those who believe Aphex Twin invented acid techno or that Herzog's bad lieutenant is a completely original piece of work and is not a 'remake'

 

i personally think Herzog is whimsical and he likes to make up stories for the fun of it. I forgot which movie it was but he made up a myth about local townspeople thinking a hidden city was underneath the ice. Apparently he completely made up this part but nonetheless actually stood on top of a very dangerous unstable patch of ice to hoax this. I find it extremely difficult to believe that a filmmaker like him would not watch the original Bad Lieutenant, and am i the only one here who thinks the seal sounds in Journeys was faked too?

I don't know if the seal sounds were faked, but I agree that literal truth is not of great interest to Herzog. In fact, I'd say much of the time (especially these days, now that he's old, a bit famous, and becoming a bit of a caricature of himself) he assembles whatever he's filming to support his preconceptions. I usually don't mind this too much, as I happen to "agree" or at least sympathize with his take on things...

i decided against watching this documentary. i just don't care about the subject.

  On 11/7/2011 at 2:26 AM, jefferoo said:

Best Herzog films...

even dwarfs started small! i love stroszek, aguirre and all that great filmmaking, bu jesus, did i tripped the fuck out on dwarfs. the kind of movie that stays with you.

  On 11/7/2011 at 3:05 AM, tauboo said:

i decided against watching this documentary. i just don't care about the subject.

It looks like it might be a bit preachy. I'd still see it though.

Posting in a troon thread.