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“The Jungle Is Obscene”— Werner Herzog’s Visceral Nature Writing
This month’s issue of Harper’s features a fantastic collection of diary entries by German film director Werner Herzog. These entries are excerpted from the forthcoming book Conquest of the Useless:...
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More Excerpts from Werner Herzog’s Conquest of the Useless
Last month, we were delighted to read some excerpts from Conquest of the Useless, Werner Herzog‘s forthcoming account of the making of his epic Fitzcarraldo (we wrote about it here). The paragons of...
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“We Are Challenging Nature Itself . . . And It Hits Back”— Werner Herzog on...
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“When you shoot an elephant, it stays on its feet for ten days before it...
Iquitos, 29 June 1979 When you shoot an elephant, it stays on its feet for ten days before it falls over. When I got back on the ice after two minutes in the penalty box, a puck struck hard from a...
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RIP Filmmaker Les Blank
RIP filmmaker Les Blank, 1935-2013. Les Blank served as director and cinematographer of dozens of films, mostly documentaries. He’s probably most famous for his 1982 film Burden of Dreams, which...
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The birds don’t sing, they screech in pain (Werner Herzog)
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We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field...
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