Kissing Suzy Kolber (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Here’s a leopard killing a crocodile, filmed in a revolutionary new 2 frames per second format. I heard Werner Herzog loves this new technique. They call it “Retarded Flipbook”. Lars von Trier is going to make a 5-hour rape musical using this film speed, and only using natural light. Shot [...]
PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Roger Ebert is best known as half of the pair of film critics who brought movie reviews to television. Time Magazine has an interesting article about Ebert's departure from the show that made him a celebrity. As Ebert's announcement explains, Disney "has decided to take the program named 'Siskel & Ebert' and then 'Ebert & Roeper' in a new direction. I will no longer be associated with it." Ebert's...
The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
This Saturday, a posse of FADERonis tried to enjoy the Siren Festival on Coney Island, only to be scorched crispy like so much bacon before the third band even got popping. After downing 15 thirty-two-dollar churros and pretending we like Coors Light, we decided to hoof it back to North Brooklyn, where civilization affords us such priceless amenities as "air conditioning" and "Pinkberry" and "microbrews"...
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Lessons of Darkness , Werner Herzog, 1992 New York was borderline unbearable this weekend. The humidity was tropical and the heat was Egyptian. So it was a good time to think about environmental degradation and to drift over to the New Museum to see "After Nature", a little fever dream of a show that brings together works by 35 artists that either have a post-apocalyptic mood or that assume one by...
Jake Weird (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
"Since taking on the mantle of Bruce Wayne and Batman for the 2005 summer blockbuster Batman Begins, Christian Bale has become one of the more respected actors to take on the role, but before starting work on its sequel, The Dark Knight, Bale went to work with German filmmaker Werner Herzog on his latest dramatic film Rescue Dawn. Bale took a break from shooting The Dark Knight to talk to press about...
Inhabitat (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
We have officially entered the depths of summer here in NYC, and local art museums have really turned up the heat with a provocative line-up of environmentally charged exhibitions. The New Museum on the Bowery just opened its much-anticipated, After Nature show, coined after W.G. Sebald’s visionary book of the same name. We are also [...]
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
From the ATL 365 blog , about Charles Judson & other Atlanta Film Fest 365 people checking out Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World: "What the banker, philosopher and linguist all have in common is that their adventurers on some level. People who crave the new. At least, that's what they say. Herzog hints that for some, they're running away from the overwhelming confines of civilization....
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
This week 3:AM briefly commends to your attention: * Portishead - Having blown away a decade’s worth of cobwebs, Portishead’s Adrian Utley talks to Dazed and Confused about his love of noise. Plus recent wonder The Rip has been covered by some familar faces. * Lowbrow art - Mining the creative underground, Juxtapoz, Sketchy Pad and Creep [...]
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The New Museum unveiled its new exhibit, After Nature , yesterday. Running through September 21st, they say it's a departure from "the fictional documentaries of Werner Herzog" and instead draws inspiration (and its title) from W.G. Sebald's book...though rapture, ruins and environmental disasters also acted as muses. Bringing together 26 international artists on three gallery floors, expect to take...
Delectatio Morosa (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Two dates in one week? It's almost unheard of for Mrs. Nator & I nowdays, but we went out to dinner and a movie last night. The occasion was the last night that Werner Herzog's film Encounters at the End of the World was being shown at the Film Forum. I don't know if it's being picked up at another local theatre, but after seeing it, by Jeebus, I hope so. I don't want to describe the film too much,...
2x3x7 (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World "Here at the actual pole of my existence, Where all that I have done is meaningless, Where I die or live by accident alone - Where, living or dying, I am still alone; Here where North, the night, the berg of death Crowd me out of the ignorant darkness, I see at last that all the knowledge I wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me - Is...
The Rabbi Report (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Jeff Wells shows his sensitive side and gives us Werner Herzog as Adolph Hitler. Gee. How flattering....
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
MADURAI: It has been 30 years since the film appreciation club, Yadharthaa, was formed in the city. To celebrate the event, the society has planned special programmes with a sense of socially meaningful artistic expression in the next five ...
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Filed under: It's All Reel Black Voices Blogs : Most recently The Hollywood Reporter announced that Xzibit and Denzel Whitaker, along with Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, and Shawn Hatosy are set to join Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendez in Werner Herzog's cop drama... Read more
