Every Man For Himself and God Against All aka The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a prime slice of pre-nutter-in-the-jungle Werner Herzog and makes an interesting companion piece to Truffaut's L'Infant Sauvage/The Wild Child. Where Truffaut used his true story of a foundling more animal than boy as proof of the human soul, Herzog uses the real-life mystery of Hauser as a means of showing that society's accepted way of looking at the world may not necessarily be the most valid – as demonstrated when ...
A friend once commented to me that what made a painting more interesting than say, just the oil on the canvas, was the story behind the painting and the story behind the person who painted it. This works ideally when applied to this wonderfully, deeply affecting film. IF you've watched this film then you must know a little about the back story and if now read the twenty other reviews posted here. The truth is what makes this film great! The truth it takes to mix this film with fact and fiction, ...
This movie is far from perfect, but there are a few scenes here and there that are absolutly hair-raising : Kinski in a state of total exaustion at the begining, the scene in the woods when he starts to hear voices and the unbeleivable murder scene consisting of two shots disguised as one that last about 5 minutes in slow motion (it has to be seens to be beleived). The use of music is fantastic, the photography impecable. Herzog does as usual and captures another world while Kinski is plainly li...
在这部让人灵魂激荡的纪录片中，讲述了野生动物保护主义者蒂莫西·崔德威尔对熊的生死恋歌，在崔德威尔的有生之年里，共有13年丝毫不设防备的同灰熊生活在一起，影片记录了他最后5年的惊险经历。
1989年夏天，蒂莫西•崔德威尔开始了他的第一次阿拉斯加洲之旅，他在麦克尼尔河国家狩猎动物禁猎区中宿营时第一次见到了大灰熊，那次经历激发了崔德威尔的疯狂灵感，从此决定将一生都致力于灰熊及其栖息地的保护工作。
Werner Herzog looks at the young soldiers who make up the Miskito Indian rebel army. The Indians are an abused minority who sided with the Sandinistas in the Nicaragua civil war. However once the Sandinistas won the Indians were once more an abuse minority and had to fight once more for their rights.
The first part of the film deals with the war itself and how the adults are handling it. The second part of the film deals with the 10,11 and 12 year olds who are being recruited into the fight be...
'Herakles' is, of course, the Greek form of the name 'Hercules'. This is also the title of the first film made by the great director Werner Herzog. Produced on a bootlace budget, this short film with no soundtrack is very crude indeed. To call it amateurish, or even just plain bad, would be churlish: Herzog clearly lacked the hardware and the money to make anything better. And yet, watching this film in hindsight, there really are no glimmerings of the immense talent which Herzog would later dis...
dream come true for art-house film buffs, and anyone whose out looking for an interesting way to spend 90 minutes. This is perhaps one of the most amazing collection of short films. The secret lies in the vast variety of genre and style of the films. From pure eye-candy to dramatic documentaries. In a collection like this, there is no such thing as "out of place". I found all the films enjoyable and interesting. For me, the weakest segment was the Wim Wenders film. It felt like an episode of a m...
A group of young men break into an old deserted castle and find some uniforms and become soldiers. On the soundtrack the narrator speaks of the history of the building and eventually talks of the necessity of war.
Clever look at how boys playing war may end up taking it too far. Its a bit one note and is probably a couple of minutes too long, however there are some intriguing moments such as the change that happens as the uniforms are put on or how the military mind is ultimately operating in a...
Wim Winders directed this somewhat interesting documentary filmed during the 1982 Cannes Fil Festival. Winders set up a camera in a hotel room and he'd ask various directors to come in and say what they thought about the future of cinema. Werner Herzog, Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Morrissey and various others take part and offer their thoughts on the subject. The opinions very from Herzog not fearing the future to Spielberg showing high concern over the budget...
Werner Herzog's first film is a view into the mindset of the soldier who goes over the brink, but unlike many films that might explore the concept, or even Herzog's own later, arguably greater, Woyzeck, Signs of Life is about a man engulfed by the location. The setting is interesting right away; a stone fortress that men who have been wounded or just put on leave are guarding on a remote Greek island during WW2 (of course, we're never told this, which is appropriate, one can take a guess as to t...
《儿子，你都干了什么》是一部关于心理恐怖的电影。除了导演和制片人之外，演员阵容也颇为强大。继迈克尔·珊农、威廉·达福和科洛·塞维尼加盟本片之后，近日迈克尔·佩纳、布拉德·道里夫和比尔·考布斯也确认出演。
本片的情节来源于一个真实的故事，一位圣地亚哥的男子经历了一系列无法解释的神奇事件，一个怪念头导致他残忍的用刀杀害了自己的母亲。赫尔佐格表示：“我一直以来都想拍一部恐怖电影，但是不想表现为鲜血淋漓的斧头和铁链那样。而希望观众从中感受到一种莫名的恐惧。”
Werner Herzog's first film is about a young man who works out hoping to become very muscular one day. Nothing too interesting here
Julien 活在一个畸型的家庭~ 妈妈早已不在人世, 尖酸刻薄的父亲爱嗑咳水, 更爱辱骂子女~ 他的弟弟 Chris 终日挨着爸爸的特训苦练体操, 希望出人头地; 他热爱跳芭蕾舞的妹妹Pearl 身怀六甲, 经手人却竟然是 Julien 自己~ 而他嘛… 则是个精神错乱的青年, 每天漫无目的地在街上蹓跶, 独个儿在胡言乱语~ 这样的颓废家庭会有怎样的出路? 朋友可以带来一点鼓励和支持吗? 宽宏博爱的宗教又如何?
This is an amazing experience, becoming more so the further we get from it. When I see 'Apocalypse Now, or even 'Mosquito Coast' I see this. In fact whenever I see both an actor AND a director/writer risking all in a coordinated way, I see this. And when I see a combination of fictional documentary and highly stylized poses, a memory of this glistens.
I highly suggest a periodic refresh-viewing of this film on a big screen, followed of course by 'Fizcarraldo.' with some life-affirming experienc...
perhaps one of the most original films ever made. hauntingly beautiful. the hypnotized actors are used to an eerie and mesmerizing effect. a very subtle work. very disjointed and truly experimental这是一部末世纪寓言故事，晦涩但富有视觉表现力。
故事描述一个以玻璃制造为生的村镇，玻璃厂的工头死了，也带走了生产红宝石玻璃的秘方。工厂主想尽一切办法试图找回配方，却徒劳无功。
预言家海斯预测的坏事都变成现实，在村民中引起恐慌。海斯还预言玻璃工厂将被烧毁，人们相互仇视残杀，战火在世界各地燃起。后来...
