Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Fictions, a retrospective dedicated to Werner Herzog's fiction filmmaking, will be running on Mubi in the United States from May 28 - July 29, 2016.My Best Fiend: A metaphor for...something "It’s a great metaphor,” Werner Herzog declares proudly towards the end of My Best Fiend, his autobiographical reflection on fifteen years of cinematic collaboration with actor Klaus Kinski. The metaphor in question is visual. Herzog and film set photographer Beat Presser are looking at a black and white photo hanging in Presser’s apartment. It’s a striking tableau and gripping enough that it would become the poster image for Herzog's 1982 collaboration with Kinski, Fitzcarraldo. The titular character stands in the foreground, yet with his back to the camera. His emotions are unavailable, but he is undoubtedly preoccupied with the 300 ton steamboat high above him at an impossible 90 degree angle, as it disappears up...
- 6/3/2016
- MUBI
On this day in history as it relates to the movies...
1828 Feral teenager Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering Nuremberg, claiming to have been raised in total isolation. Theories abound and the story inspires many artists down the road including Werner Herzog in the film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974).
1877 Influential dancer Isadora Duncan is born. Vanessa Redgrave gets an Oscar nomination playing her in Isadora! (1968)
1886 Al Jolson is born. Will later star in the first "talkie" The Jazz Singer (1927)
1894 Silent film star Norma Talmadge is born
1897 Bram Stoker's epistolary novel "Dracula" is published. Never stops being adapted for film and television but our hearts will always belong to Francis Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) despite the aggravating double possessive
1907 John Wayne was born. Did he always talk like that?
1913 Peter Cushing is born in England. Later stars in Hammer Horror films with his irl best friend Christopher Lee, the Dracula to his Van Helsing.
1828 Feral teenager Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering Nuremberg, claiming to have been raised in total isolation. Theories abound and the story inspires many artists down the road including Werner Herzog in the film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974).
1877 Influential dancer Isadora Duncan is born. Vanessa Redgrave gets an Oscar nomination playing her in Isadora! (1968)
1886 Al Jolson is born. Will later star in the first "talkie" The Jazz Singer (1927)
1894 Silent film star Norma Talmadge is born
1897 Bram Stoker's epistolary novel "Dracula" is published. Never stops being adapted for film and television but our hearts will always belong to Francis Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) despite the aggravating double possessive
1907 John Wayne was born. Did he always talk like that?
1913 Peter Cushing is born in England. Later stars in Hammer Horror films with his irl best friend Christopher Lee, the Dracula to his Van Helsing.
- 5/26/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Partycrashers is an on-going series of video dispatches from critics Michael Pattison and Neil Young.The first Notebook appearance of the legendary Berlin establishment named 'Stadtklause' ("city retreat") was in 2009, when I described it as "an unremarkable-looking pub where, some evenings, a certain 'Bruno S' can be found playing his accordion and singing old Berlin songs. If you've seen Werner Herzog's Stroszek, you will know whom and what I am talking about. Bruno S was the star of that movie, and also of Herzog's Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, and for my money he's at least as important Herzog-collaborator as the rather better-known (and much-lamented) Klaus Kinski." Seven years later and Bruno S. is sadly no longer with us, but the Stadtklause remains. It's still a handy and unpretentious watering-hole on Bernburger Strasse near Anhalter Bahnhof, just a short walk from Potsdamer Platz, the grimly modernistic epicentre of the Berlinale...
- 3/7/2016
- by Neil Young
- MUBI
The Notebook is the North American home for Locarno Film Festival Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian's blog. Chatrian has been writing thoughtful blog entries in Italian on Locarno's website since he took over as Director in late 2012, and now you can find the English translations here on the Notebook as they're published. The Locarno Film Festival will be taking place August 3 - 13. The remarkable power of Werner Herzog’s documentaries lies in their visionary qualities, in their courageous assertion that the world can still amaze us. I don’t mean just those films in which the director sought out hidden recesses not normally visible to common mortals: the frigid waters beneath the ice of Antarctica, the Chauvet Cave or the Amazonian jungle. Those same visionary qualities are all the more conspicuous when Herzog addresses the ordinary, the subjects we all have before our eyes, because then we appreciate that the magic...
- 2/26/2016
- by Carlo Chatrian
- MUBI
It is finally time to look at the second disc of the BFI collection box set. Hope you enjoyed part one and potentially found it useful. This time round, there are only two titles to devour. One being my personal favourite Herzog film, and the other being an example of his early television documentary work.
The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
“Nothing lives less in me than my life”
Up until his late teens, Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.) was locked in a cellar by a man in an overcoat and top hat. Devoid completely of any human contact aside from his mysterious captor, Kaspar had only a toy horse to occupy his time. One day however, Kaspar is finally released by the man, taught some very basic phrases, handed a letter and a Bible, and left in a town square in Nuremberg. Understandably, the locals are intrigued by this mysterious fellow...
The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
“Nothing lives less in me than my life”
Up until his late teens, Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.) was locked in a cellar by a man in an overcoat and top hat. Devoid completely of any human contact aside from his mysterious captor, Kaspar had only a toy horse to occupy his time. One day however, Kaspar is finally released by the man, taught some very basic phrases, handed a letter and a Bible, and left in a town square in Nuremberg. Understandably, the locals are intrigued by this mysterious fellow...
- 10/23/2014
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
In discovering Bruno S., Werner Herzog found exactly the kind of actor he needs, someone who doesn't necessarily "act" in a role, but someone that more-or-less is the character he/she was hired to portray. In this case, the story of Bruno S. (full name Bruno Schleinstein) holds eerie similarities to the title character in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, a 19th century Germany-set story of a man who was locked away in a dungeon for the first 17 years or so of his life only to one day be found in a small town square outside Nuremberg, alone and holding only an anonymous letter. The film is based on a true story, though Herzog holds little allegiance to reality as he cast Bruno (as I'll refer to him throughout the rest of this review), a man in his forties portraying what history would tell us is only a boy in his late teens.
- 6/24/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Werner Herzog's take on the story of a semi-feral youth who turned up in 19th-century Nuremberg stays true in fact and spirit with the casting of the unforgettable Bruno Schleinstein
Director: Werner Herzog
Entertainment grade: A
History grade: A–
In 1828, an unknown and semi-feral youth turned up in the German town of Nuremberg. He could barely speak or walk and could only write a name: Kaspar Hauser. The mystery made him a celebrity across Europe.
People
Werner Herzog's film begins precisely as Hauser himself described his origins, once he began to speak. He claimed to have been imprisoned in a cellar for his entire life, given bread and water and allowed no possessions apart from a wooden toy horse. Finally, a man appeared who taught him to say one sentence – "I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was" – and the word "horse". The man left him...
Director: Werner Herzog
Entertainment grade: A
History grade: A–
In 1828, an unknown and semi-feral youth turned up in the German town of Nuremberg. He could barely speak or walk and could only write a name: Kaspar Hauser. The mystery made him a celebrity across Europe.
People
Werner Herzog's film begins precisely as Hauser himself described his origins, once he began to speak. He claimed to have been imprisoned in a cellar for his entire life, given bread and water and allowed no possessions apart from a wooden toy horse. Finally, a man appeared who taught him to say one sentence – "I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was" – and the word "horse". The man left him...
- 8/15/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Davide Manuli’s new take on the historical Kaspar Hauser story previously adapted by Werner Herzog (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser) features Vincent Gallo as both an English-speaking The Sheriff and an Italian-speaking bell-bottomed The Pusher. I’m a huge fan of Herzog’s film, but Manuli’s second film The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser (La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser), weird as hell, is a quirky Techno Western depicting surreal humor from obscure scenes. The mysterious titular character is played by a flat-chested stage actress Silvia Calderoni, while Claudia Gerini stars as The Duchess, Fabrizio Gifuni as The Priest, and Elisa Sednaoui as The Psychic. Gallo delivers a solid performance,...
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- 7/17/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
What's better than one Vincent Gallo? Apparently, two Vincent Gallos. Yep, fans of the mercurial, eccentric actor can start getting prepared for a double dose of the actor in the upcoming "The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser," which is as appropriately zany as you might expect a movie starring Gallo can be. Dude just doesn't do normal. Directed by Davide Manuli, the film is some kind of modern western riff on the strange but true story about the titular man who showed up randomly in Nuremberg in the early 1800s, saying he had been raised and educated in a dungeon, but never saw the outside world. Stage actress Silvia Calderoni takes the role of Kaspar, with Gallo as The Sheriff (speaking English) and The Pusher (speaking Italian), Claudia Gerini as the Duchess, Fabrizio Gifuni as the Priest, and Elisa Sednaoui as the Psychic. The result? Well, two new trailers that reveal...
- 7/16/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Perhaps Werner Herzog's captivating study of a mysterious innocent has added relevance in the era of the Fritzl case
Werner Herzog's captivating The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, now on re-release, has the elegance and simplicity of a woodcut. It is based on the true story of a 16-year-old youth who appeared out of nowhere in a German square in 1828 like an unwanted pet; having apparently been imprisoned and beaten as a child, he is all but savage, but nonetheless is taught to speak and reason by kindly townsfolk and briefly taken up by fashionable society. Remarkably played by Bruno S, a former mental-hospital inmate, Herzog's Kaspar Hauser is arguably a figure to compare with, say, Greystoke or The Elephant Man: a test case for finding nobility and perfectibility in any human being, or more importantly in the human society in which he finds himself. But perhaps now...
Werner Herzog's captivating The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, now on re-release, has the elegance and simplicity of a woodcut. It is based on the true story of a 16-year-old youth who appeared out of nowhere in a German square in 1828 like an unwanted pet; having apparently been imprisoned and beaten as a child, he is all but savage, but nonetheless is taught to speak and reason by kindly townsfolk and briefly taken up by fashionable society. Remarkably played by Bruno S, a former mental-hospital inmate, Herzog's Kaspar Hauser is arguably a figure to compare with, say, Greystoke or The Elephant Man: a test case for finding nobility and perfectibility in any human being, or more importantly in the human society in which he finds himself. But perhaps now...
- 7/5/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★★☆ Rereleased to tie in with a two-month retrospective at BFI Southbank, it's been almost forty years since Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) debuted on screens. Although a little obtuse and raggedy at times, this beguiling and fable-like yarn sits within his finest work. Loosely based on a real-life tale, the film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno Schleinstein) who has spent the first seventeen years of his life chained up like an animal in a confined, grotty cellar. One day, the young man is mysteriously released into captivity, taught some phrases and how to walk, and taken to the town of Nuremberg.
Unsurprisingly, Hauser's looked upon as a genuine curio by the inquisitive townsfolk, and finds himself being entered into the freak show of a travelling circus, before a kindly Professor Daumer (Walter Ladengast) adopts him. Under close scrutiny from the authorities, Hauser appears to be a savant of sorts.
Unsurprisingly, Hauser's looked upon as a genuine curio by the inquisitive townsfolk, and finds himself being entered into the freak show of a travelling circus, before a kindly Professor Daumer (Walter Ladengast) adopts him. Under close scrutiny from the authorities, Hauser appears to be a savant of sorts.
- 7/4/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
If you were born at some point in the last fifty years or so, you probably know who James Bond is. If that name is confusing you, where have you been, Kaspar Hauser? As one of the most iconic characters to have ever been created by anyone in the history of human existence, Bond has remained a permanent staple in popular culture ever since he first appeared in Ian Fleming’s first novel, presumably because he taps into our inherent desire to jet off around the world and kill people on a whim.
As an agent for the top secret MI6 branch in London, James Bond has been embodied by a whole host of incredibly famous actors across what is now considered to be a truly epic filmography. Be it Sean Connery or Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan or Roger Moore, almost everyone has their favourite Bond – the beauty of the character,...
As an agent for the top secret MI6 branch in London, James Bond has been embodied by a whole host of incredibly famous actors across what is now considered to be a truly epic filmography. Be it Sean Connery or Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan or Roger Moore, almost everyone has their favourite Bond – the beauty of the character,...
- 6/19/2013
- by T.J. Barnard
- Obsessed with Film
Feature James Clayton 22 Mar 2013 - 06:22
As The Croods arrives in UK cinemas, James recommends leaving civilised society behind and reveling in the freedom of being a Neanderthal...
Remember the advert where a caveman wakes up in a modern suburban setting and only becomes a fully upstanding civilised human being once he’s eaten a bowl of Corn Flakes with milk? Watching those commercials makes me never want to eat breakfast cereal ever again. Quite frankly, Kellogg’s, I’d rather be a caveman.
I’m not talking about a caveman in the Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble vein either. They aren’t cavemen. They are identifiable contemporary types drawn into a retrofitted animated version of 1960s mainstream America. As the theme tune cheerily proclaims, The Flintstones are “the modern stone age family” and the emphasis is definitely on the ‘modern family’ part.
What I’m talking about is real, authentic prehistoric man.
As The Croods arrives in UK cinemas, James recommends leaving civilised society behind and reveling in the freedom of being a Neanderthal...
Remember the advert where a caveman wakes up in a modern suburban setting and only becomes a fully upstanding civilised human being once he’s eaten a bowl of Corn Flakes with milk? Watching those commercials makes me never want to eat breakfast cereal ever again. Quite frankly, Kellogg’s, I’d rather be a caveman.
I’m not talking about a caveman in the Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble vein either. They aren’t cavemen. They are identifiable contemporary types drawn into a retrofitted animated version of 1960s mainstream America. As the theme tune cheerily proclaims, The Flintstones are “the modern stone age family” and the emphasis is definitely on the ‘modern family’ part.
What I’m talking about is real, authentic prehistoric man.
- 3/21/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Cologne, Germany – Acclaimed German director Werner Herzog will receive a lifetime achievement award from the German Film Academy at this year's German film awards, the Lolas. Story: Werner Herzog to Direct 'Vernon God Little' Herzog established his name as a director in Germany in the 1970s and 80s as part of the New German Cinema movement with ground-breaking features such as Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Fitzcarraldo (1982). More recently, it has been Herzog's documentaries, including Grizzly Man (2005), the Oscar-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (2009) and
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- 3/1/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Several films which premiered at Sundance -- Soldier Jane (Isa: Premium Films), Fat Shaker, What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love, Stoker (Fox and Fox Searchlight) and Il Futuro (Isa: Visit Films) -- have gone on to take awards at the recently wrapped International Film Festival Rotterdam.
And the winners are…
Hivos Tiger Awards
The three winners of the equal Hivos Tiger Awards 2013 are:
My Dog Killer (Môj pes Killer) (Isa: M-appeal) by Mira Fornay (Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2013). An unflinching study of a troubled teen in small-town Slovakia, the film was praised by its jury for 'showing a very strong subject from the inside' Soldate Jeannette (Soldier Jane) (Isa: Premium Films) by Daniel Hoesl (Austria, 2012). A provocative portrait of two women from different ends of the social spectrum, Hoesl's debut feature was commended for it 'strong imagery and visual power.' Fat Shaker (Larzanandeye charbi) by Mohammad Shirvani (Iran, 2013). Shirvani's drama about a stern patriarch was, the jury stated, 'a fascinating story with superb characters.' Apparently the film’s showing in the West has caused some problems at home. See Indiewire story here.
The jury of the 2013 Hivos Tiger Awards Competition (prize €15.000) consisted of distinguished Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamedarya; Russian scriptwriter and filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa; Dutch filmmaker Kees Hin; José Luis Cienfuegos, artistic director of the Seville European Film Festival (Spain) and Chinese visual artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei(who was not be able to attend the festival and commented on his jury duty in a prerecorded video message). They made their announcement of the winners at the Awards Ceremony in Rotterdam.
The winners of the Netpac, Fipresci and Knf awards were also announced. Two of the winners were supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, and one was a CineMart project.
Netpac Award
The Netpac Jury (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) awards the best Asian film in Iffr 2013 official selection. The winner of the Netpac Award 2013 is What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love (Indonesia, 2013). It also had received money earlier from the Hubert Bals Fund.
Fipresci Award
The winner of the Rotterdam Fipresci Award 2013 (see photo on this page for selected jury members) is The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser by Alberto Gracia (Spain, 2013)
The Big Screen Award
Introduced this year, the Big Screen Award Competition aims to support the distribution of films in Dutch cinemas. The Iffr named Pretty Butterflies (Bellas mariposas) by Salvatore Mereu (Italy, 2012) as winner of its new Big Screen Award Competition. The film follows a day in the life of a young Sardinian girl.
Knf Award
The Dutch Circle of Film Critics (Knf) Jury award – chosen from the ten films in The Big Screen Award Competition – went to The Future (Il futuro) by Alicia Scherson (Chile/Germany/Italy/Spain, 2013).
And the winners are…
Hivos Tiger Awards
The three winners of the equal Hivos Tiger Awards 2013 are:
My Dog Killer (Môj pes Killer) (Isa: M-appeal) by Mira Fornay (Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2013). An unflinching study of a troubled teen in small-town Slovakia, the film was praised by its jury for 'showing a very strong subject from the inside' Soldate Jeannette (Soldier Jane) (Isa: Premium Films) by Daniel Hoesl (Austria, 2012). A provocative portrait of two women from different ends of the social spectrum, Hoesl's debut feature was commended for it 'strong imagery and visual power.' Fat Shaker (Larzanandeye charbi) by Mohammad Shirvani (Iran, 2013). Shirvani's drama about a stern patriarch was, the jury stated, 'a fascinating story with superb characters.' Apparently the film’s showing in the West has caused some problems at home. See Indiewire story here.
The jury of the 2013 Hivos Tiger Awards Competition (prize €15.000) consisted of distinguished Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamedarya; Russian scriptwriter and filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa; Dutch filmmaker Kees Hin; José Luis Cienfuegos, artistic director of the Seville European Film Festival (Spain) and Chinese visual artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei(who was not be able to attend the festival and commented on his jury duty in a prerecorded video message). They made their announcement of the winners at the Awards Ceremony in Rotterdam.
The winners of the Netpac, Fipresci and Knf awards were also announced. Two of the winners were supported by the Hubert Bals Fund, and one was a CineMart project.
Netpac Award
The Netpac Jury (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) awards the best Asian film in Iffr 2013 official selection. The winner of the Netpac Award 2013 is What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love (Indonesia, 2013). It also had received money earlier from the Hubert Bals Fund.
Fipresci Award
The winner of the Rotterdam Fipresci Award 2013 (see photo on this page for selected jury members) is The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser by Alberto Gracia (Spain, 2013)
The Big Screen Award
Introduced this year, the Big Screen Award Competition aims to support the distribution of films in Dutch cinemas. The Iffr named Pretty Butterflies (Bellas mariposas) by Salvatore Mereu (Italy, 2012) as winner of its new Big Screen Award Competition. The film follows a day in the life of a young Sardinian girl.
Knf Award
The Dutch Circle of Film Critics (Knf) Jury award – chosen from the ten films in The Big Screen Award Competition – went to The Future (Il futuro) by Alicia Scherson (Chile/Germany/Italy/Spain, 2013).
- 2/6/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Movie studios are renowned for their love of sequels, because what’s more marketable than something that already exists? Sometimes, though, an “official sequel” isn’t the way to go, either because the existing property is considered “untouchable,” or because all the characters are dead and the notion of “pulling a Dallas” would be considered a crime against cinematic endeavor in general.
Make room for the unofficial, informal, unauthorized, illegitimate and spiritual successors to some of your favourite movies, then, all of which are full-blown exercises in sheer half-assery. For your reading pleasure, we’ve assembled 10 famous movies and the “side-sequels” you didn’t know they’d spawned somehow. Be that they were created by a different production team entirely or were referred to by their writers as “spiritual follow-ups” to otherwise great flicks, barely one of ‘em is worth a minute of your precious time.
10. MirrorMask (2005)
It’s A Half-Assed Sequel To…...
Make room for the unofficial, informal, unauthorized, illegitimate and spiritual successors to some of your favourite movies, then, all of which are full-blown exercises in sheer half-assery. For your reading pleasure, we’ve assembled 10 famous movies and the “side-sequels” you didn’t know they’d spawned somehow. Be that they were created by a different production team entirely or were referred to by their writers as “spiritual follow-ups” to otherwise great flicks, barely one of ‘em is worth a minute of your precious time.
10. MirrorMask (2005)
It’s A Half-Assed Sequel To…...
- 2/4/2013
- by T.J. Barnard
- Obsessed with Film
Daniel Hoesl’s serenely composed film, that invites the mind to go on safari without a script, Soldate Jeannette (Soldier Jane) from Austria, shared top honors as one of three Tiger Award winners at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. The other Tiger Award winners are Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer, a Slovakia-Czech Republic production and Mohammad Shirvani’s Fat Shaker from Iran. Each Tiger Award winner receives a cash prize of €15,000.
Soldate Jeannette Director Daniel Hoesl goes on safari and bags a Tiger.
The Fipresci Award was presented to Alberto Gracia from Spain, for his film The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser.
Salvatore Mereu's Pretty Butterflies from Italy wins the newly launched Big Screen Award and Indonesian film What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love by Mouly Surya, the Netpac Award.
The Dutch Circle of Film Critics Jury award went to Alicia Scherson...
Soldate Jeannette Director Daniel Hoesl goes on safari and bags a Tiger.
The Fipresci Award was presented to Alberto Gracia from Spain, for his film The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser.
Salvatore Mereu's Pretty Butterflies from Italy wins the newly launched Big Screen Award and Indonesian film What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love by Mouly Surya, the Netpac Award.
The Dutch Circle of Film Critics Jury award went to Alicia Scherson...
- 2/3/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
"A sense of obligation."
--Stephen Crane
 
That man can be found at the center of Werner Herzog's films. He is Aguirre. He is Fitzcarraldo. He is the Nosferatu. He is Timothy Treadwell, who lived among the grizzlies. He is Little Dieter Dengler, who needed to fly. She is Fini Straubinger, who lived in a land of silence and darkness since she was 12. He is Kaspar Hauser. He is Klaus Kinski. He is the man who will not leave the slopes of the Guadeloupe volcano when it is about to explode. He is those who live in the Antarctic. She is Juliana Koepcke, whose plane crashed in the rain forest and she walked out alive. He is Graham Dorrington, who flew one of the smallest airships ever built...
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
"A sense of obligation."
--Stephen Crane
 
That man can be found at the center of Werner Herzog's films. He is Aguirre. He is Fitzcarraldo. He is the Nosferatu. He is Timothy Treadwell, who lived among the grizzlies. He is Little Dieter Dengler, who needed to fly. She is Fini Straubinger, who lived in a land of silence and darkness since she was 12. He is Kaspar Hauser. He is Klaus Kinski. He is the man who will not leave the slopes of the Guadeloupe volcano when it is about to explode. He is those who live in the Antarctic. She is Juliana Koepcke, whose plane crashed in the rain forest and she walked out alive. He is Graham Dorrington, who flew one of the smallest airships ever built...
- 2/2/2013
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Still from My Dog Killer
Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer (Slovakia-Czech Republic), Daniel Hoesl’s Soldier Jane (Austria) and Mohammad Shirvani’s Fat Shaker (Iran) won the Tiger Awards at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. The award comprises of cash prize of Euro 15,000 for each winner.
The newly introduced Big Screen Award was bagged by Italian film Pretty Butterflies by Salvatore Mereu. The Netpac Award went to Indonesian film What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love by Mouly Surya and the Fipresci Award was presented to The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser by Alberto Gracia from Spain. The Future, a Chile-Germany-Italy-Spain co-production directed by Alicia Scherson won the Knf Award 2013.
Slovakia-CzechRepublic co-production My Dog Killer narrates the tale of 18 year-old Merek whose only friend and true company is his dog. Merek, neglected by his family, blindly follows the local goons. One day, his mother and half-brother return,...
Mira Fornay’s My Dog Killer (Slovakia-Czech Republic), Daniel Hoesl’s Soldier Jane (Austria) and Mohammad Shirvani’s Fat Shaker (Iran) won the Tiger Awards at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam. The award comprises of cash prize of Euro 15,000 for each winner.
The newly introduced Big Screen Award was bagged by Italian film Pretty Butterflies by Salvatore Mereu. The Netpac Award went to Indonesian film What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love by Mouly Surya and the Fipresci Award was presented to The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser by Alberto Gracia from Spain. The Future, a Chile-Germany-Italy-Spain co-production directed by Alicia Scherson won the Knf Award 2013.
Slovakia-CzechRepublic co-production My Dog Killer narrates the tale of 18 year-old Merek whose only friend and true company is his dog. Merek, neglected by his family, blindly follows the local goons. One day, his mother and half-brother return,...
- 2/2/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What is “4:44 Last Day on Earth” writer-director Abel Ferrara doing in a silent Italian film? Only filmmaker Davide Manuli can say for sure. “It’s a gamble, an experiment,” Manuli told Indiewire recently about his new project, “Haiku,” which is currently being crowdfunded on Indiegogo. “After ‘[The Legend of] Kaspar Hauser’ I was so tired that I couldn’t really sit down and write a conventional, dialogue-based screenplay. I have already worked with Abel as an assistant, but I believe that he is also a great actor and I have always wanted to work with him.” As funding opportunities shrink by the day in a Europe ravaged by the financial crisis, austerity threatens to become a new aesthetic movement as well as the ruling economic imperative. Perhaps this is just the environment in which Manuli should thrive. A creative anomaly, a beacon of visual insolvency in a sea of aesthetic compliance,...
- 1/24/2013
- by Celluloid Liberation Front
- Indiewire
Held back on Sept. 21-29, the 5th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival was a major blow-out event of extreme underground greatness. And, to top it all off, they handed out a gaggle of awards to both feature films and shorts alike.
The big winner was the Best of Fest award that went to Michael Melamedoff’s sly drama The Exhibitionists, about a bunch of hedonists gathered on New Year’s Eve. Meanwhile, the Audience Award went to the reality TV parody Ghosts With Shit Jobs by Chris McCawley, Jim Morrison, Jim Munroe and Tate Young; and Kenton Bartlett’s torture flick Missing Pieces won the Director’s Award.
Some other winners include Spencer Parsons’ Saturday Morning Massacre for Best Horror Feature, a film that while not reviewed yet on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film we’ve seen it and easily declare one of the best horror movies of the last few years.
The big winner was the Best of Fest award that went to Michael Melamedoff’s sly drama The Exhibitionists, about a bunch of hedonists gathered on New Year’s Eve. Meanwhile, the Audience Award went to the reality TV parody Ghosts With Shit Jobs by Chris McCawley, Jim Morrison, Jim Munroe and Tate Young; and Kenton Bartlett’s torture flick Missing Pieces won the Director’s Award.
Some other winners include Spencer Parsons’ Saturday Morning Massacre for Best Horror Feature, a film that while not reviewed yet on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film we’ve seen it and easily declare one of the best horror movies of the last few years.
- 11/9/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Ben Affleck’s new thriller Argo has been announced as the Opening Gala film of this year’s Leeds International Film Festival. The widely-acclaimed Argo, based on the remarkable true story of a CIA expert posing as a fake film producer in order to infiltrate Iran at the time of the hostage crisis in 1979 and rescue a group of stranded Americans, will open the annual festival at Leeds Town Hall on Thursday 1 November. Argo will be released in the UK by Warner Bros on Wednesday 7 November.
Now in its 26th year, the biggest film festival in England to be held outside London runs until Sunday 18 November and will present 167 feature films and special programmes in 257 screenings and events. The full programme, available to view at www.leedsfilm.com, is presented in five distinct sections: Official Selection, Retrospectives, Fanomenon, Cinema Versa, and Short Film City.
Amour closes the Official Selection
Opening this year with Argo,...
Now in its 26th year, the biggest film festival in England to be held outside London runs until Sunday 18 November and will present 167 feature films and special programmes in 257 screenings and events. The full programme, available to view at www.leedsfilm.com, is presented in five distinct sections: Official Selection, Retrospectives, Fanomenon, Cinema Versa, and Short Film City.
Amour closes the Official Selection
Opening this year with Argo,...
- 10/12/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Montreal’s Festival Du Nouveau Cinema (10.10 – 10.21) announced their line-up today for their 41st edition and among the smorgasbord of subtitle offerings dating back to this year’s Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice and Tiff editions, we’re knee-deep in avant-garde world cinema from the established auteurs Assayas, Vinterberg, Ozon, Sang-Soo, Joao Pedro Rodriguez, Larrain, Loach, Reygadas, Ghobadi, Mungiu and Miguel Gomes. Heavy on offerings from Quebec and France, the fest also manages to offer a stellar snapshot of the up-and-comers from all corners of the globe. Among the notable titles in the (Competition category) International Selection we’ve got Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves, Ursula Meier’s Sister, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Francine (which received its theatrical release earlier this month) and Rodrigo Plá’s La Demora. Loaded in Cannes items, the Special Presentations is the fest’s A-list selections (see filmmakers named above) and the one pic...
- 9/25/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
To celebrate their 5th anniversary, the Arizona Underground Film Festival has expanded to a whopping nine nights on Sept. 21-29 for a cinematic event the likes of Tucson has never seen before!
The shenanigans kick off with the opening night film The Legend of Kaspar Hauser, an experimental Italian feature directed by Davide Manuli and starring Vincent Gallo as the hero and the villain to a strange young boy, then end with the closing night film Jason M. Solomon’s nostalgic documentary 7 Years Underground: A 60′s Tale, which profiles the legendary Cafe Au Go Go in NYC that hosted such up-and-coming acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin and more.
In between those two films lies a twisted carnage of movie mayhem, including Spencer Parsons’ demented homage to ’70s mystery cartoons Saturday Morning Massacre; Michael Melamedoff exploitative semi-doc The Exhibitionists; Stephen Amis’ Australian WWII sci-fi...
The shenanigans kick off with the opening night film The Legend of Kaspar Hauser, an experimental Italian feature directed by Davide Manuli and starring Vincent Gallo as the hero and the villain to a strange young boy, then end with the closing night film Jason M. Solomon’s nostalgic documentary 7 Years Underground: A 60′s Tale, which profiles the legendary Cafe Au Go Go in NYC that hosted such up-and-coming acts such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, George Carlin, Lily Tomlin and more.
In between those two films lies a twisted carnage of movie mayhem, including Spencer Parsons’ demented homage to ’70s mystery cartoons Saturday Morning Massacre; Michael Melamedoff exploitative semi-doc The Exhibitionists; Stephen Amis’ Australian WWII sci-fi...
- 9/14/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The 5th annual Arizona Underground Film Festival, which will run on Sept. 21-29 at various venues around Tucson, Arizona, has officially released the titles of six of the films that will be screening at this year’s event.
It’s clear from this half-dozen batch of movies that the fest will be sticking to its successful formula that has allowed it to grow by leaps and bounds since 2008. That formula consists of offering up a diverse batch of fun genre fare, controversial exploitation films, crowd-pleasing music documentaries and somewhat unclassifiable cinematic oddities.
The titles and brief descriptions are below. The full lineup will be available on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film in early September.
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser, dir. Davide Manuli. In this Italian update of the Werner Herzog classic film, which was based on a true story, controversial American actor Vincent Gallo tackles the dual roles...
It’s clear from this half-dozen batch of movies that the fest will be sticking to its successful formula that has allowed it to grow by leaps and bounds since 2008. That formula consists of offering up a diverse batch of fun genre fare, controversial exploitation films, crowd-pleasing music documentaries and somewhat unclassifiable cinematic oddities.
The titles and brief descriptions are below. The full lineup will be available on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film in early September.
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser, dir. Davide Manuli. In this Italian update of the Werner Herzog classic film, which was based on a true story, controversial American actor Vincent Gallo tackles the dual roles...
- 8/27/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
As much as people have quibbles with (much more democratically voted-on) awards like the Oscars, the decisions by juries at film festivals tend to be even more contentious. Usually drawn from practitioners and actors, with a few other curious participants in there as well, jurors often come in with their own likes, dislikes and agendas, and in the absence of a unanimous choice, often end up settling for compromises.
Indeed, this year's Cannes Film Festival jury president Nanni Moretti said, after the awards were unveiled this past weekend, that none of the them were unanimously voted for (word is Andrea Arnold in particular was a fervent opponent of Leos Carax's "Holy Motors"). That being said, their Palme D'Or winner was a popular one: while a few critics were rooting for "Holy Motors," almost everyone was delighted that Michael Haneke's "Amour" picked up the prize (his second in four years,...
Indeed, this year's Cannes Film Festival jury president Nanni Moretti said, after the awards were unveiled this past weekend, that none of the them were unanimously voted for (word is Andrea Arnold in particular was a fervent opponent of Leos Carax's "Holy Motors"). That being said, their Palme D'Or winner was a popular one: while a few critics were rooting for "Holy Motors," almost everyone was delighted that Michael Haneke's "Amour" picked up the prize (his second in four years,...
- 5/31/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
There are a few Paramount Pictures’ Anchorman: The Legend Continues trailers on YouTube. As a matter of fact, the first one having debuted in theaters with The Dictator last Wednesday, while the second is an international teaser with different jokes and it debuted on Funny or Die. However, now we can all rejoice in our love [...]
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- 5/21/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Picture a flying saucer emerging from the Twilight Zone. It lands on an island, but it's the year zero and the location seems imaginary. The place is filled with mesmerizing inhabitants who behave like exaggerated pop culture icons. The population: 7. This is The Legend of Kaspar Hauser - a microcosmos as viewed through a fantastically warped Warhol lens.
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- 5/18/2012
- QuietEarth.us
I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see.
- 4/27/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Disco, flying saucers, long-haired Sheriffs who speak in the lilting accents of American southerners on Italian beaches. You can’t fault director Davide Manuli for trying. He throws everything at the wall that is his update of “The Legend of Kaspar Hauser” and if only a tiny fraction of its sticks than so be it. I admire him for trying. Not that there’s much else to admire. It’s hard to know who’s responsible when a film goes as deeply, terribly wrong as this one. Based on the German urban legend of sorts about a teenage boy that appeared in the streets of Nuremberg in the 1820s and was quickly taken to be of royal lineage despite the fact that he claimed to have been isolated in a darkened cell for much of his development, it is the scandal of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, where...
- 2/3/2012
- The Playlist
"Where's "Trailers 1'?" you might be asking. That roundup's built right into the entry on the lineup for the Bright Future program, where I've embedded 18 trailers. This batch gathers trailers for features in the Tiger Awards Competition and the main Spectrum program.
First, this from the International Film Festival Rotterdam: "José Luis Torres Leiva made this year's leader for the Hubert Bals Fund. Copia imperfecta is a beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer."
Tiger Awards Competition
Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan's Voice of my Father (Babamin sesi)
Huang Ji's Egg and Stone (Jidan he shitou)
Maja Miloš's Clip (Klip)
Óskar Thor Axelsson's Black's Game (Svartur á leik)
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's It Looks Pretty from a Distance (Z daleka widok jest piękny)
Park Hong-Min's A Fish (Mulgogi)
Midi Z's Return to Burma
Babis Makridis's L
Okuda Yosuke's Tokyo Playboy...
First, this from the International Film Festival Rotterdam: "José Luis Torres Leiva made this year's leader for the Hubert Bals Fund. Copia imperfecta is a beautiful homage to Raúl Ruiz, the great Chilean filmmaker who died last summer."
Tiger Awards Competition
Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Dogan's Voice of my Father (Babamin sesi)
Huang Ji's Egg and Stone (Jidan he shitou)
Maja Miloš's Clip (Klip)
Óskar Thor Axelsson's Black's Game (Svartur á leik)
Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal's It Looks Pretty from a Distance (Z daleka widok jest piękny)
Park Hong-Min's A Fish (Mulgogi)
Midi Z's Return to Burma
Babis Makridis's L
Okuda Yosuke's Tokyo Playboy...
- 1/18/2012
- MUBI
In his 30-plus years in cinema, Vincent Gallo has been both hero and villain, winning wide acclaim for his directorial debut Buffalo '66 (1998) but intense derision from critics for The Brown Bunny (2003) because of a scene depicting explicit unsimulated oral sex between Gallo and actress Chloë Sevigny. It's hard to tell what sort of reaction Gallo's latest movie, writer-director Davide Manuli's The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser, will generate because we're not even quite sure what to make of it. Presumably, the movie has something to do with Kaspar Hauser, the German youth whose mysterious upbringing has baffled historians for centuries, but based on the bizarre teaser trailer that was just released, it appears Legend has more in common with desert raves and ... aliens.
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- 1/17/2012
- by BrentJS Sprecher
- Reelzchannel.com
Alexander Kluge speaks at the Oberhausen Manifesto press conference 1962
For all the news tumbling out of Rotterdam and Berlin over the past couple of weeks, we don't want to overlook a couple of pretty major announcements coming from other festivals regarding their upcoming editions. Starting with this one: "The 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto (February 28, 2012) with a large-scale thematic program entitled Provoking Reality: Mavericks, Mouvements, Manifesto. To honor the anniversary of the Manifesto, perhaps the single most important group document in German film history, the festival has compiled a selection of films of the signatories, many of which have not been shown for decades and had to be restored expressly for the program."
In addition to the inevitable panel discussion, there'll also be a double DVD from Edition Filmmuseum and, in German, a collection of essays. Before moving on, this...
For all the news tumbling out of Rotterdam and Berlin over the past couple of weeks, we don't want to overlook a couple of pretty major announcements coming from other festivals regarding their upcoming editions. Starting with this one: "The 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Oberhausen Manifesto (February 28, 2012) with a large-scale thematic program entitled Provoking Reality: Mavericks, Mouvements, Manifesto. To honor the anniversary of the Manifesto, perhaps the single most important group document in German film history, the festival has compiled a selection of films of the signatories, many of which have not been shown for decades and had to be restored expressly for the program."
In addition to the inevitable panel discussion, there'll also be a double DVD from Edition Filmmuseum and, in German, a collection of essays. Before moving on, this...
- 1/15/2012
- MUBI
While some may find Vincent Gallo's movies boring you can never, ever say that about the man himself. One of cinema's reigning enfants terribles for long enough now that the enfant tag doesn't really fit any more, Gallo seems to take great pride in being perplexing and unpredictable and that is very clearly evident in his new starring venture, The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser.The body of crown prince Kaspar Hauser, who had mysteriously disappeared since childhood, surfaces somewhere near the Sardinian shore. This new arrival stirs the lives of the small community of five that inhabit the Italian island.What this synopsis has to do, precisely, with either UFOs or dancing is not exactly clear but you get them both in the film's first teaser....
- 1/9/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Via Cargo co-editor Ekkehard Knörer, the trailer for Davide Manuli's The Legend of Kaspar Hauser, described by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where the film will see its world premiere, simply as "a post-modern Western with Vincent Gallo."
In the Hollywood Reporter, Eric J Lyman notes that the story is to be "transplanted to the Italian island of Sardinia. Gallo will speak Italian as The Pusher and English as The Sherriff. Other cast members include Italian Claudia Gerini, best known for her role in The Passion of the Christ, Fabrizio Gifuni, Elisa Sednaoui, and theatre actress Silvia Calderoni, who will play a man in the title role."
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In the Hollywood Reporter, Eric J Lyman notes that the story is to be "transplanted to the Italian island of Sardinia. Gallo will speak Italian as The Pusher and English as The Sherriff. Other cast members include Italian Claudia Gerini, best known for her role in The Passion of the Christ, Fabrizio Gifuni, Elisa Sednaoui, and theatre actress Silvia Calderoni, who will play a man in the title role."
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- 1/7/2012
- MUBI
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser is an upcoming David Manuli‘s project with Vincent Gallo in the leading role. Or, should we say – roles, because, in case you’re not so familiar with it, Gallo stars both as the Pusher (who speaks Italian) and the Sheriff (who speaks English language). Confused yet? Wait ’till you see [...]
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- 1/7/2012
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
I’ll just fess up: Despite the fact that it’s in its 41st year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam is something I’ve kind of never heard about until today. (Let’s blame it on a slip in my geography skills.) This ignorance on my part notwithstanding, taking a look at their initial lineup for this year — when the event runs from January 25th to February 5th — has left me mightily impressed.
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
The biggest world premieres come from two directors on opposite ends of at least a few spectrum: Takashi Miike and James Franco. (Discounting the fact that they’ve both depicted amputations onscreen, in one way or the other.) The former is debuting his adaptation of the popular Nintendo DS game, Ace Attorney, while the latter will be exhibiting Francophrenia (Or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is). A movie based on a kid’s...
- 1/6/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
The 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 25 - February 5) has released their full Spectrum lineup. Of the 72 features and documentaries, 16 will be world premieres, including new works from Takashi Miike, James Franco and one starring Vincent Gallo. Franco's film, "Francophrenia (Or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)," co-directed by Ian Olds, uses footage shot by Franco during his brief stint on "General Hostpital." It's described as a "humorous psycho-thriller." "Ace Attorney" by Miike, is a film adaptation of the Nintendo game about the legal battle between a defense attorney and his rival prosecutor. Italian director Davide Manuli will also be world premiering his latest, "The Legend of Kaspar Hauser," described as a "post-modern Western" starring Gallo. Iffr 2012 Spectrum: list of films making their world premieres. Go here for full Spectrum lineup. ...
- 1/6/2012
- Indiewire
Patton Oswalt's new show, The Heart, She Holler, premieres tonight at 12:30 am on Adult Swim. As good an opportunity as any to catch up on at least some of the things he's been doing lately.
These days, he has one movie out in theatres (A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas), another one getting released next month (Young Adult), and Stars Entertainment reports that he will make an appearance in the Christmas episode of Raising Hope.
On the media front, he was on the Kevin & Bean podcast with Rob Delaney and Joshua Jackson the other day. You can listen to it here.
Popbytes has a recording of the panel for The Heart, She Holler at the New York Comic Con.
Hampton Roads has an article about the show, which includes a short interview with Patton. Snippet:
The six-part miniseries centers on a tycoon who leaves his fortune to a long-lost son,...
These days, he has one movie out in theatres (A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas), another one getting released next month (Young Adult), and Stars Entertainment reports that he will make an appearance in the Christmas episode of Raising Hope.
On the media front, he was on the Kevin & Bean podcast with Rob Delaney and Joshua Jackson the other day. You can listen to it here.
Popbytes has a recording of the panel for The Heart, She Holler at the New York Comic Con.
Hampton Roads has an article about the show, which includes a short interview with Patton. Snippet:
The six-part miniseries centers on a tycoon who leaves his fortune to a long-lost son,...
- 11/7/2011
- by fanshawe
- CapricaTV
Yes, we're in the midst of Austin Film Festival. But there are other film things going on if you're not attending Aff. On Monday night, Austin Cinematheque is showing a (free!) screening of Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser at the Texas Union Theater,
The next Essential Cinema screening in the "Goin' for Baroque" series is Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover on Tuesday at Alamo South Lamar. Starring Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon and Richard Bohringer about a bored wife considering an affair, this is the only movie I ever stopped watching after a few minutes back in the days when VHS was king, so I need to give it one more try.
Love music and documentaries? Directors Lev Anderson, Chris Meztler are bringing thier doc Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone to town on Wednesday and will be in attendance along with...
The next Essential Cinema screening in the "Goin' for Baroque" series is Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover on Tuesday at Alamo South Lamar. Starring Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon and Richard Bohringer about a bored wife considering an affair, this is the only movie I ever stopped watching after a few minutes back in the days when VHS was king, so I need to give it one more try.
Love music and documentaries? Directors Lev Anderson, Chris Meztler are bringing thier doc Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone to town on Wednesday and will be in attendance along with...
- 10/21/2011
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
The Cannes film festival starts today – with a record four women competing for the main prize. Why so few? The key directors talk to Charlotte Higgins about chauvinism and the Croisette
At last year's Cannes film festival, there was an outcry: there was not a single woman in competition for the Palme d'Or. British director Alicia Duffy screened her debut feature in the Directors' Fortnight strand, and British directors Sophie Fiennes and Lucy Walker both took documentaries, but the main competition was an all-male affair: Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and 17 others. This year – perhaps by chance, perhaps as a corrective measure taken by the selectors – there are four female film-makers in contention: Lynne Ramsay, the British director of We Need to Talk About Kevin; Australian Julia Leigh; France's Maïwenn Le Besco; and Japan's Naomi Kawase. This is still only four out of 20 directors – depressingly, the largest number of women ever...
At last year's Cannes film festival, there was an outcry: there was not a single woman in competition for the Palme d'Or. British director Alicia Duffy screened her debut feature in the Directors' Fortnight strand, and British directors Sophie Fiennes and Lucy Walker both took documentaries, but the main competition was an all-male affair: Mike Leigh, Ken Loach and 17 others. This year – perhaps by chance, perhaps as a corrective measure taken by the selectors – there are four female film-makers in contention: Lynne Ramsay, the British director of We Need to Talk About Kevin; Australian Julia Leigh; France's Maïwenn Le Besco; and Japan's Naomi Kawase. This is still only four out of 20 directors – depressingly, the largest number of women ever...
- 5/10/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Even with Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett in the cast, Joe Wright's would-be thriller about a teen assassin is oddly boring
Too boring to be a proper thriller, and too goofily hectic for anything grander than that, Joe Wright's self-conscious new assassin movie Hanna is guided with sleek laser-accuracy at a precisely equidistant point between two stools. After a strongish start, the film doesn't so much sag as utterly collapse – each audience member will feel like someone who has flung himself into a hammock that isn't tied at either end. With its wicked-witch performance from Cate Blanchett, its derivative premise, its bland Europudding location work and some frankly outrageous boredom, this will test everyone's patience.
Eric Bana plays Erik, a battle-scarred professional tough guy with a guttural German accent hiding out in the snowy forest wearing clothes made out of furry animal skins, like Robinson Crusoe. Here he has trained up a lovely,...
Too boring to be a proper thriller, and too goofily hectic for anything grander than that, Joe Wright's self-conscious new assassin movie Hanna is guided with sleek laser-accuracy at a precisely equidistant point between two stools. After a strongish start, the film doesn't so much sag as utterly collapse – each audience member will feel like someone who has flung himself into a hammock that isn't tied at either end. With its wicked-witch performance from Cate Blanchett, its derivative premise, its bland Europudding location work and some frankly outrageous boredom, this will test everyone's patience.
Eric Bana plays Erik, a battle-scarred professional tough guy with a guttural German accent hiding out in the snowy forest wearing clothes made out of furry animal skins, like Robinson Crusoe. Here he has trained up a lovely,...
- 5/5/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Werner Herzog's presence in his own films – including the new Cave of Forgotten Dreams – marks him out as a romantic, eager to experience what he's trying to understand
Few film directors seem as directly present in their work as Werner Herzog. Not only does he have an instantly recognisable aesthetic, but unlike most European auteurs of his generation, he has become a familiar face in front of the camera. We are so accustomed to seeing him – playing football with Peruvian indians, arguing with Klaus Kinski, eating his own shoe at Chez Panisse – that we might mistake him for just another "personality", one of the celebrities who parade past at various scales, from cellphone to Times Square, on our screens. Directors are required to be showmen, particularly directors of documentaries, who always have to hustle to finance and screen their work. But Herzog's presence, his insistence on being in the middle of things,...
Few film directors seem as directly present in their work as Werner Herzog. Not only does he have an instantly recognisable aesthetic, but unlike most European auteurs of his generation, he has become a familiar face in front of the camera. We are so accustomed to seeing him – playing football with Peruvian indians, arguing with Klaus Kinski, eating his own shoe at Chez Panisse – that we might mistake him for just another "personality", one of the celebrities who parade past at various scales, from cellphone to Times Square, on our screens. Directors are required to be showmen, particularly directors of documentaries, who always have to hustle to finance and screen their work. But Herzog's presence, his insistence on being in the middle of things,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Hari Kunzru
- The Guardian - Film News
Davide Manuli‘s forthcoming The Legend of Kaspar Hauser will take on the strange historical case of Kaspar Hauser – which was tackled previously, and brilliantly by Werner Herzog – and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Vincent Gallo has just been cast in two roles. For the first, called The Pusher, he’ll be speaking Italian. For the second, called The Sheriff, he’ll be speaking English. The names are an odd indication of how arthouse this project might be, but the story of Hauser isn’t exactly a mainstream one. It’s essentially a real-life, 19th century European version of Blast From the Past, where a man named Kaspar Hauser came to Nuremberg claiming that he was raised in a dungeon that he’s never left. The cast also features Claudia Gerini (The Passion of the Christ), Fabrizio Gifuni, Elisa Sednaoui, and Silvia Calderoni. It sounds like a fascinating project that will hopefully steer away from Herzog but...
- 4/7/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We'll say this: Vincent Gallo surely doesn't like to shy away from a challenge. In his last film, Jerzy Skolimowski's "Essential Killing," Gallo played Mohammed, a Taliban-like figure on the run from the American army--who doesn't speak a single word for the entire runtime of the film. Well, for his next project, you won't be able to shut him the fuck up. Gallo is set to take on two roles--and speak two languages--in "The Legend of Kaspar Hauser," an Italian production that isn't a remake of the Werner Herzog film, but is a retelling of the familiar legend. Davide Manuli…...
- 4/7/2011
- The Playlist
Shaken by the absence of submersible vessels in Richard Ayoade’s Submarine, James wonders, what’s in a name…?
If you don't have any expectations, you can't be disappointed. As humans we can only take so much disappointment before we slip into a prolonged state of despair. When the real world is depressing, the last thing we need is the 'reel world' of cinematic escape to promise a lot and then come up woefully short.
I'd go so far as to attribute the popularity of apocalypse-themed pop culture to society's frustration that the promised bright future never seems to come.
Even though expecting the worst means you could be pleasantly surprised, it's probably best not to be either pessimistic or optimistic. Really, if the future is unwritten (because Destiny is the screenwriter and he's a lazy procrastinator), we shouldn't focus our energy on what's to come, but concentrate on the present.
If you don't have any expectations, you can't be disappointed. As humans we can only take so much disappointment before we slip into a prolonged state of despair. When the real world is depressing, the last thing we need is the 'reel world' of cinematic escape to promise a lot and then come up woefully short.
I'd go so far as to attribute the popularity of apocalypse-themed pop culture to society's frustration that the promised bright future never seems to come.
Even though expecting the worst means you could be pleasantly surprised, it's probably best not to be either pessimistic or optimistic. Really, if the future is unwritten (because Destiny is the screenwriter and he's a lazy procrastinator), we shouldn't focus our energy on what's to come, but concentrate on the present.
- 3/31/2011
- Den of Geek
I had the pleasure of seeing Joe Wright’s fourth feature tonight, the action/drama/thriller Hanna starring Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, and Eric Bana. While I’m embargoed from sharing any thoughts, Focus Features shared a new clip and a variety of images from the film. The clip features some of the fantastic The Chemical Brothers score, and a snippet from one of my favorite scenes in the film. Check them out below, followed by production notes from the film. Click for hi-resolution versions.
Synopsis
A teenage girl goes out into the world for the first time – and has to battle for her life. Director Joe Wright weaves elements of dark fairy tales into the adventure thriller Hanna, filmed on location in Europe and Morocco.
Hanna (played by Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan of Atonement, also directed by Joe Wright) is 16 years old. She is bright, inquisitive, and a devoted daughter.
Synopsis
A teenage girl goes out into the world for the first time – and has to battle for her life. Director Joe Wright weaves elements of dark fairy tales into the adventure thriller Hanna, filmed on location in Europe and Morocco.
Hanna (played by Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan of Atonement, also directed by Joe Wright) is 16 years old. She is bright, inquisitive, and a devoted daughter.
- 2/16/2011
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
We’ve been sent over some new production stills by the folks at Thinkjam taken from Werner Herzog’s ace new documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, which the German film-making legend shot in 3D. We know it’s ace because we’ve seen it. The film is released in UK cinemas from 25th March, so expect our review in good time!
If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, click on the link here and check out the stills below after the detailed synopsis.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog...
If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, click on the link here and check out the stills below after the detailed synopsis.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog...
- 1/28/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
It says something when somebody as maverick and individual as Werner Herzog goes and makes a 3D film. If you’ve ever seen a Herzog documentary you’ll know well they’re probably better than much of his fiction work. And that’s saying something! He’s made a new one now called Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
A new UK Trailer for the film – opening in the UK from 25th March – has been sent over to us and a pretty detailed synopsis, too. I’m still unconvinced by 3D but Herzog is a legendary film-maker and will no doubt do something great with the format. The subject matter alone – ancient cave-drawings and artwork – is most interesting.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings,...
A new UK Trailer for the film – opening in the UK from 25th March – has been sent over to us and a pretty detailed synopsis, too. I’m still unconvinced by 3D but Herzog is a legendary film-maker and will no doubt do something great with the format. The subject matter alone – ancient cave-drawings and artwork – is most interesting.
Synopsis:
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave Of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Picturehouse Entertainment have just sent us the brand new trailer for their new 3d movie, Cave of Forgotten Dreams which is directed by the legendary Werner Herzog. The documentary is released 25th March 2011.
I’ll let the synopsis do the talking and scroll down to view the trailer which Jon first placed last week.
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog uses his unique access to this treasure trove of Palaeolithic masterpieces to muse on the immensity and fragility of man’s progress.
Herzog combines his gifts as a conjurer of unforgettable images,...
I’ll let the synopsis do the talking and scroll down to view the trailer which Jon first placed last week.
Positively received at its Toronto Festival Premiere, Cave of Forgotten Dreams shows the dramatic results of Herzog’s exclusive access to the recently discovered Chauvet caves in the South of France, and their truly extraordinary cave paintings, dating back 32,000 years. Herzog’s use of 3D really brings these beautiful works of art and the breath-taking cathedral like cave with its towering stalagmites to life. Herzog uses his unique access to this treasure trove of Palaeolithic masterpieces to muse on the immensity and fragility of man’s progress.
Herzog combines his gifts as a conjurer of unforgettable images,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Dave Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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