Another remake is on the way, but this doesn’t sound resoundingly awful. Deadline is reporting that Robert Eggers, writer and director of the festival favorite The Witch, is being tagged to direct a remake of the classic F.W. Murnau silent film, Nosferatu. The film has been remade once in 1979 by Werner Herzog. According to …
Through a series of staged reenactments from his life and from the city’s past, juxtaposed with anecdotes and trivia of varying degrees of believability, Maddin creates a hilarious, haunting, and kaleidoscopic survey of 100 years of Winnipeg, and how he relates to it all.
Werner Herzog once said in Grizzly Man, “I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.” Always the optimistic sort, Herzog is not without his guiding philosophies that have helped him become one of the greatest living filmmakers of all time. He has taken filmmakers like Harmony Korine …
YouTube announced a contest this week in collaboration with director Guillermo Del Toro in which entrants with YouTube channels can submit a short horror story to be judged by Del Toro, with the winner getting the opportunity to sign a deal with Del Toro’s Legendary Pictures. The contest is called “You Tube Space House of …
One movie that has always stood out as being among Herzog’s most unusual is Stroszek, from 1977. Well received upon its release, and now recognized as one of the German filmmaker’s finest films, Stroszek is something of an enigma in Herzog’s career full of enigmatic works.
Herzog frequently manages to endow the mundane and the banal with qualities of inherent peculiarity; working specifically within the horror genre, his capacity for the uncanny is as intoxicating as ever
The worst, most oblivious parts of humanity are on display in the strange and striking new documentary The Act of Killing. Hyperbolic or not, it’s hard to imagine many other documentaries quite like this one, in which the director calls upon many of its participants to reenact, as they please, a number of harrowing and gruesome events from 40 years ago.
Following are some supplemental sections featuring notable director & actor teams that did not meet the criteria for the main body of the article. Some will argue that a number of these should have been included in the primary section but keep in mind that film writing on any level, from the casual to the …
Jack Reacher Written for the screen and directed by Christopher McQuarrie USA, 2012 Jack Reacher opens with a point-of-view sniper sequence in which a lone gunman causes panic, killing multiple citizens from afar. This impressive, tense scene, as well as a few immediately following it, adds up to a completely dialogue-free opening stretch of roughly …
Into the Abyss Directed by Werner Herzog Germany, Canada, 2011 Werner Herzog’s second documentary released this year is surprisingly similar to the first. Where his Cave of Forgotten Dreams looked at ancient caverns in Chauvet, the more recent Into the Abyss also excavates, but this time the subject matter is death row inmates and a …
Telluride 2011, Day 2 The most perilous and difficult aspect of attending Telluride – whether you’re a passholder, a guest, a sponsor, or a ticketholder – is going to the bathroom. Really. Because the great majority of the fest’s venues are assembled specifically for the event, some of its facilities are ill-equipped to deal with …
2011 marks many firsts for Sound On Sight. One of those new yearly highlights is coverage on the Telluride Film Festival. Site editor and host of the Sound On Sight podcast, Simon Howell is currently in Colorado all set to attend the festival for the very first time. Back in April, he applied to be …
A while back Samuel L. Jackson released a clip of him reading a faux-children’s book Go the F*ck to Sleep, and needless to say it was an internet sensation. Well now everyone’s favourite German filmmaker Werner Herzog decided to also give it a try. Herzog recorded a special version of the audiobook for the New …
– Cave of Forgotten Dreams Directed by Werner Herzog 2010 – Canada, USA, Germany, France, UK – At this point in Werner Herzog’s career, in which documentaries have mostly taken prominence over fictional features (at least until last year’s bizarro double feature of Bad Lieutenant and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done), one …
A while back we posted a video of Werner Herzog reading Where’s Waldo. After we posted videos of Herzog reading Curious George and Madeline. Well now just in time for the holidays we bring you Werner Herzog reading Twas The Night Before Christmas. Enjoy! (NOTE: Not really Werner Herzog).
It is the second week of the contest, and this is traditionally when we first start feeling a little horror burnout. This year was no exception, but I managed to trudge through it and watch 13 films, and some were even good. The week started on a high note with Lucio Fulci’s City of The …
————– If you’re facing down the Toronto International Film Fest’s immense schedule and feeling a strong urge to self-harm, you’re not alone. This year’s lineup is densely packed with enough documentaries, Oscarbait, and intriguing foreign features to drive any movie fan who can make it to TO up the wall. To help whittle it down, …
Before I get to number 49 I feel the need to list fifty honorable mentions. This is a very personal list and I am confident that I could have easily chosen 100 foreign language films or 100 independent art house films and skipped out on all the Hollywood flicks, but I decided to go with …
MJ Documentary? The King of Pop continues to be incredibly lucrative, even in death. The latest posthumous venture concerns the “…rights to the approximately 80 hours of high-definition, full dress rehearsal footage captured by AEG Entertainment, the company behind Jackson’s concert series.” It’s the rehearsal footage for the “This Is It” series of 50 live …