President Donald Trump offered congratulations and condolences in his tweetstorms over the last 24 hours. On the one hand, he saluted Joe Biden’s South Carolina primary victory. On the other, he shed some crocodile tears over the fates of billionaires Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, who fared less well.
The Commander-in-Tweet has the luxury of sitting on the sidelines and observing the chaos of the Democratic primaries, where no clear frontrunners have emerged. He’s even looking ahead and musing whether the candidates who have or may drop out will support the party with donations, given their crash and burns. And he had some harsh words for “consultants” who are clearly the hogs at the trough when it comes to advice to the candidates.
The President did have one happy note, giving a shout-out to Sammy’s Mexican Grill in Phoenix. The proprietors have received backlash for supporting the President at a Feb.
The Commander-in-Tweet has the luxury of sitting on the sidelines and observing the chaos of the Democratic primaries, where no clear frontrunners have emerged. He’s even looking ahead and musing whether the candidates who have or may drop out will support the party with donations, given their crash and burns. And he had some harsh words for “consultants” who are clearly the hogs at the trough when it comes to advice to the candidates.
The President did have one happy note, giving a shout-out to Sammy’s Mexican Grill in Phoenix. The proprietors have received backlash for supporting the President at a Feb.
- 3/1/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The prologue of each of the four episodes of “Death Row” is the same: a restless camera prowls through the dismal ante-room, holding cell and injection chamber of an unnamed execution facility, while director Werner Herzog tells us in his familiar teutonic monotone that, as a German and a guest of the United States, he “respectfully disagree[s]” with the death penalty, legal in 34 states, and performed regularly in 16.
And so he sets out his position up front. What's perhaps surprising, however, is that what he then delivers is neither polemical nor propagandistic in its approach; Herzog's storytelling instincts trump his didactic ones here, to compelling effect. Having already tackled this subject in his feature-length “Into The Abyss” (the central figure of which makes a fleeting appearance here in the "Joseph Garcia and George Rivas" section), it's clear that in exploring the stories of these condemned men and women, Herzog has...
And so he sets out his position up front. What's perhaps surprising, however, is that what he then delivers is neither polemical nor propagandistic in its approach; Herzog's storytelling instincts trump his didactic ones here, to compelling effect. Having already tackled this subject in his feature-length “Into The Abyss” (the central figure of which makes a fleeting appearance here in the "Joseph Garcia and George Rivas" section), it's clear that in exploring the stories of these condemned men and women, Herzog has...
- 4/26/2012
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Werner Herzog's "On Death Row," which starts March 9 on the Investigation Discovery channel, is a strange creation, half a continuation of ideas explored in "Into the Abyss" and half a true-crime special. The work screened as a single three-hour piece at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, but on TV will play out over four weeks in hour-long installments with introductions by Paula Zahn. Each installment is built around an interview (or in one case, a pair of interviews) with a death row inmate in Texas or Florida. One of these subjects, George Rivas, was executed last week; the others await the setting of dates or news of appeals. Each episode begins with Herzog intoning that "as a German coming from a different historical background, and being a guest in the United States, I respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment." But the show could never be...
- 3/9/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Having delved into the deep end of the prison system, interviewing a man awaiting execution and the family members of his victims in his outstanding 2011 doc "Into The Abyss." Werner Herzog is set to continue the conversation about the death penalty and those to whom it's been given in "On Death Row," a four-part companion series to last year's film that premieres on the Investigation Discovery channel on March 9th at 10pm. In an unfortunate instance of timeliness, one of the five inmates he interviews in the series has just been executed. George Rivas, 41, was the leader of the Texas 7, a gang that escaped from a maximum-security prison and went on a crime spree that left one policeman dead, ultimately getting caught after someone spotted them on "America's Most Wanted." He was serving multiple life sentences for kidnapping, robbery and burglary charges at the time of the breakout. In the clip from.
- 3/2/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Werner Herzog's new documentary mini-series, "On Death Row," got even more real yesterday when interview subject George Rivas was executed by lethal injection in Texas. Rivas, who was 41-years-old, was known as the ringleader of the Texas 7 gang, which organized the state's biggest prison break. While on the run, the group committed a robbery that led to the death of a police officer. All of the escapees were ultimately sentenced to death, including another man Herzog features in the program. In one of his final interviews at the Polunsky Unit in West Livingston, Texas, Rivas recounted the decisions that led to the police officer's death....
- 3/2/2012
- by Liane Bonin Starr
- Hitfix
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