hahahaw, I'm a proud owner of eternal sunshine, Oldboy, and the Squid and the Whale (so good!)
Stone Reader - you've probably already seen this, it's six years old. But if you haven't seen it and you love books, or documentaries or obsessiveness in general, you've got to see this one. In search of a vanished author and his vanished book.
Also saw last night. A kind of dumb and cliched premise, ..snip.... Ha.
Stone Reader - you've probably already seen this, it's six years old. But if you haven't seen it and you love books, or documentaries or obsessiveness in general, you've got to see this one. In search of a vanished author and his vanished book.
I knew I should have searched for it before I posted that.
Herzog is a mad genius. Aguirre ...
Just watched Encounters at the End of the World, a documentary about Antarctica and the people who live there by Werner Herzog. Not your typical Nat Geo or Discover Channel documentary. Herzog manages to keep a cynical attitude throughout (now you ask: "how the hell can you be cynical in a documentary about Antarctica for god's sake?").
Highly Recommended!
Just watched Encounters at the End of the World, a documentary about Antarctica and the people who live there by Werner Herzog. Not your typical Nat Geo or Discover Channel documentary. Herzog manages to keep a cynical attitude throughout (now you ask: "how the hell can you be cynical in a documentary about Antarctica for god's sake?").
Highly Recommended!
Read some things written by people around him rather than just interviews with him and you might get a different take. I'm pretty sure the word "humble" won't come up very often. But then very few forceful, driven people are humble....Orson Welles...From all the interviews I have watched he seems like a very humble, profound guy too which surprised me a little at first since a lot of guys as gifted and visionary as him generally are real assholes in real life.
Read some things written by people around him rather than just interviews with him and you might get a different take. I'm pretty sure the word "humble" won't come up very often. But then very few forceful, driven people are humble.
Busy with Jodorowski, I watched el Topo.
You could say "Have you experienced Jodorowski?"
His re-ocurring themes are ever present, a fascination with mother's love, cults, amputations.
The imagery is quite powerful (costumes and sets) and somewhat abstract at the same time, but you get it.
Something fellini-esque about it.
Arte??"Populärmusik från Vittula"
They Live, John Carpenter, 1988 How Rowdy Roddy didn't get a nomination for this I cannot fathom. Awesome film.
They Live, John Carpenter, 1988 How Rowdy Roddy didn't get a nomination for this I cannot fathom. Awesome film.