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Werner Herzog

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60 days ago

The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog review – profound, or just a prank?

The director’s provocative seventh book takes in toupees, AI and a pig in a sewer. Should we take him seriously?

At 83, Werner Herzog is a living legend who can and does do precisely what he wants. Li…

3 months ago

Ghost Elephants review – Werner Herzog embarks on a mission to track down giant jumbos

In his inimitable fashion, Herzog follows a South African naturalist’s quest to discover a new species of elephant in Angola

Werner Herzog has once again shown his flair – his genius, perhaps – for lo…

‘Not the tea-cosy Yorkshire’: the film about carwash workers showing the dark side of the Dales

The Ceremony is an award-winning film about migrant workers on a grim mission with a corpse. Its director relives a January shoot hampered by hailstones, flash floods and frozen moors

‘The Yorkshire D…

5 months ago

Hearts of Darkness: A Film-Maker’s Apocalypse review – Francis Ford Coppola and the mother of all meltdowns

Coppola said his masterpiece Apocalypse Now ‘is not about Vietnam; it is Vietnam’ – this superb film shows how little he was exaggerating

The greatest ever making-of documentary is now on re-release: …

‘No plans ever to retire’: why Steven Spielberg and the movie brat generation just won’t quit

Spielberg, 78, has announced he’ll keep making films till he dies – and he’s a spring chicken next to Coppola, Scorsese, Werner Herzog and Ridley Scott, all still working in their 80s. What makes dir…

6 months ago

Burden of Dreams review – on-location account of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo is a gruelling delight

A rerelease of the documentary about the German film-maker’s operatic adventure in the Peruvian jungle is a compelling portrait of an artist obsessed

In 1982, film-maker Les Blank released this sombre…

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