From One Second to the Next

Herzog made a strange little documentary about the dangers of texting while driving. It’s available here:

http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=128

Cobra Verde

It was no misunderstanding. It was a crime…

We watched this last night as part of our ongoing Herzog completist project. It’s the last film that Herzog made with Klaus Kinski before his death in 1991. It’s not as good as the other two collaborations I have seen so far. It was really confusing and felt like it ended about five times. It’s based on the Bruce Chatwin book The Viceroy of Ouidah. I’ll be checking that out in the coming weeks.

I don’t really like this movie. I’m glad I saw it, but I don’t think I could watch it again unless I had the Herzog commentary track playing. I’m excited to read criticism of the film. That will probably be more fun to the original viewing experience.

Grizzly Man (Completist Series – Werner Herzog)

Banjo is missing!

This is the second film in our completist run of Herzog films. We talked about it a lot last night after we viewed it so I’m not going to recreate that conversation here. If you haven’t caught up with this film, you probably should.

Next up we are going to watch Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. After that we will hopefully be viewing some additional Herzog films during the Four from Herzog series that is running this fall in Madison, WI.

Gut reaction: 4/5

Woyzeck (Completist Series – Werner Herzog)

I’d rather have a knife in my body than your hand on me.

This is the first film that we watched in our Werner Herzog completist series. It’s really awesome. It’s dark, funny and weird. That a great combination. I wasn’t sure what to expect with early Herzog, but this was every bit as good as the films of his I have seen. I’m excited to continue down this path.

Here is a trailer for the film.

Next we are going to watch Grizzly Man. I’ve seen it before, but I really like it.

Gut reaction: 4/5