Werner Herzog has traveled to the ends of the earth for his art, rolling cameras in places rarely seen by human eyes — from rapids along the Amazon River for 1972’s “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” to the rim of an active volcano in Antarctica. But what’s inside Herzog’s head is what fascinates fans of the German director.
As revealed in a new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All” (the phrase served as the original title of his 1974 film “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser”), Herzog’s far-ranging filmography represents only a fraction of the encounters and adventures that have shaped his worldview.
The book came easily, or so he insists as we huddle in a quiet corner of the Montrose airport in Colorado, following the Telluride Film Festival, where he’s been a fixture for nearly all of the last 50 years.
“It could have been five times as long,...
As revealed in a new memoir, “Every Man for Himself and God Against All” (the phrase served as the original title of his 1974 film “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser”), Herzog’s far-ranging filmography represents only a fraction of the encounters and adventures that have shaped his worldview.
The book came easily, or so he insists as we huddle in a quiet corner of the Montrose airport in Colorado, following the Telluride Film Festival, where he’s been a fixture for nearly all of the last 50 years.
“It could have been five times as long,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Actor Bill Pullman is set to present his favourite food film, 1987’s Babette’s Feast, as the opening-night film at the world’s largest culinary film festival, Devour!, which runs Nov 4-8 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
The festival’s executive director Michael Howell and managing director Lia Rinaldo launched the 2015 programme in Toronto last week.
Films to screen include That Sugar Film, The Birth of Sake, A Year In Champagne, Swank Farm, In Defense of Food, The Empire of Scents, Sergio Herman: Fucking Perfect, Happy 140, Foodies, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, Good Things Await, The Duel of Wine, For Grace, and Relative Happiness.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how Devour! has grown since its inception to become the world’s premier film festival focusing on our love of both cuisine and cinema,” said Howell.
“The team has worked extremely hard to create a sensory overload for anyone coming to Wolfville this November – from the 78 films, to a significant...
The festival’s executive director Michael Howell and managing director Lia Rinaldo launched the 2015 programme in Toronto last week.
Films to screen include That Sugar Film, The Birth of Sake, A Year In Champagne, Swank Farm, In Defense of Food, The Empire of Scents, Sergio Herman: Fucking Perfect, Happy 140, Foodies, The Great Chicken Wing Hunt, Good Things Await, The Duel of Wine, For Grace, and Relative Happiness.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see how Devour! has grown since its inception to become the world’s premier film festival focusing on our love of both cuisine and cinema,” said Howell.
“The team has worked extremely hard to create a sensory overload for anyone coming to Wolfville this November – from the 78 films, to a significant...
- 9/23/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The Austrian author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), whose novella Journey into the Past has been adapted for the screen as A Promise, has always polarised opinion. His critical reputation hasn't yet recovered from the kicking he was given by the poet and translator Michael Hofmann in the London Review of Books after his autobiography, The World of Yesterday, was re-published in 2009. "Stefan Zweig just tastes fake. He's the Pepsi of Austrian writing," Hofmann dismissed Zweig, calling him "putrid through and through".
- 7/31/2014
- The Independent - Film
Well, time to get our plane tickets in order: next year, according to the Independent, London’s English National Opera is set to stage an opera by super genius composer Philip Glass about the fictionalized last days of Walt Disney. They’re also debuting an experimental new work by “Cloud Atlas” author David Mitchell.
The Glass piece is based on “The Perfect American,” a novel by Peter Stephan Jungk (translated by Michael Hofmann) that centered on the relationship between Walt Disney and Wilhelm Dantine, a young Danish story artist who worked on “Sleeping Beauty” and who desperately fought for Disney’s attention (as far as we can tell, Dantine is an invention of the author but undoubtedly stands in for many artists in similar situations). It’s through Dantine that you get a glimpse of some of Disney’s late-era obsessions, including the Epcot project in Florida, and focuses on...
The Glass piece is based on “The Perfect American,” a novel by Peter Stephan Jungk (translated by Michael Hofmann) that centered on the relationship between Walt Disney and Wilhelm Dantine, a young Danish story artist who worked on “Sleeping Beauty” and who desperately fought for Disney’s attention (as far as we can tell, Dantine is an invention of the author but undoubtedly stands in for many artists in similar situations). It’s through Dantine that you get a glimpse of some of Disney’s late-era obsessions, including the Epcot project in Florida, and focuses on...
- 4/29/2012
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
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