Woyzeck
Werner Herzog’s Woyzeck (1979) adapts Georg Büchner’s nineteenth century play as an excruciatingly close-up look at a man’s psychological deterioration. Herzog shot the film immediately after wrapping Nosferatu Phantom der… Read more »
Tag: Werner Herzog
Stroszek
Stroszek (1977) is one of Werner Herzog’s greatest films. It’s a darkly comic character study and indictment of American culture. If the American dream is an open road of limitless… Read more »
Queen Of The Desert
Queen of the Desert (2015) isn’t Werner Herzog’s best film, but it certainly isn’t his worst either. The critical reception of this beautifully mounted Gertrude Bell biopic comes as a… Read more »
Nosferatu The Vampyre
When Werner Herzog remade F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece in 1979 with Klaus Kinski in the titular role he essentially bridged the gap between pre-Nazi German cinema and the determinedly nationalistic New… Read more »
Three Films Of Kaspar Hauser
History, like memory, becomes perverted in the retelling as one moves further and further away from the recollected event. For instance, Wyatt Earp metamorphosed from a violent lawman into a… Read more »
Even Dwarfs Started Small
From The Unholy Three to The Terror Of Tiny Town and beyond, “little people” have always had a place in the cinema. Perhaps the most unusual of films to predominantly feature “little… Read more »
Werner Herzog
In 1962, with the issuing of the Oberhausen Manifesto, New German Cinema began. For twenty years a generation of German filmmakers produced small, personal and decidedly nationalist films in response… Read more »
