Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Werner Herzog's Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin is exclusively showing in the United States starting February 7, 2021.When Werner Herzog met Bruce Chatwin, legend has it the two spent forty-eight hours telling stories to each other. “For every one I told him,” Herzog remembers, “he would tell me three. We would sleep for a couple of hours, then wake up and carry on.” The year was 1984, the place Melbourne. Hot on the heels of Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog had travelled to Australia to shoot Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), while Chatwin, by then already a literary icon, was working on his fourth book, The Songlines (1987). His first, In Patagonia (1977) had sent the Englishman on a journey to the ends of the world to uncover the mystery behind a piece of “brontosaurs skin.” It had changed travel writing forever, concocting...
- 2/8/2021
- MUBI
From the heart-wrenching exploration of Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man, whose real-life adoration of the titular creatures would portend his own death, to exploring the forgotten paintings and rituals of the stone age in transcendent 3-D in Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog is a nomad himself in the documentary field. For his latest non-fiction, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, he’s turning the camera to his late friend. Music Box Films has now unveiled a new trailer for his new documentary, scheduled to be released in select cinemas April 8.
An official selection at Tribeca, Herzog tackles the personal subject of the life of his friend Bruce Chatwin, travel writer, explorer, novelist, and journalist. To honor his friend’s legacy, he embarks on the same journey Chatwin made–featuring Patagonia, the Black Mountains in Wales, and the outback of Australia– and it is of course narrated by the...
An official selection at Tribeca, Herzog tackles the personal subject of the life of his friend Bruce Chatwin, travel writer, explorer, novelist, and journalist. To honor his friend’s legacy, he embarks on the same journey Chatwin made–featuring Patagonia, the Black Mountains in Wales, and the outback of Australia– and it is of course narrated by the...
- 3/5/2020
- by Margaret Rasberry
- The Film Stage
The Cannes Film Festival, cinema’s most esteemed yearly event, begins this week. While we’ll soon be on the ground providing coverage, today brings a preview of what we’re most looking forward to among the eclectic line-up, ranging from films in competition to select titles on the various sidebars. Check out our most-anticipated features below and follow our complete coverage here throughout the month. Make sure to also follow our contributors on Twitter: Rory O’Connor, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Leonardo Goi, and Ed Frankl.
20. Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog)
The recent narrative output of Werner Herzog hasn’t been stellar, but for his next feature, the intrepid director is stepping far outside his comfort zone. The Japanese-language Family Romance, LLC follows a family in which a father goes missing, and a man is hired to impersonate him. Starring non-professional actors Yuichi Ishii and Mahiro Tanimoto), with music by Ernst Reijseger,...
20. Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog)
The recent narrative output of Werner Herzog hasn’t been stellar, but for his next feature, the intrepid director is stepping far outside his comfort zone. The Japanese-language Family Romance, LLC follows a family in which a father goes missing, and a man is hired to impersonate him. Starring non-professional actors Yuichi Ishii and Mahiro Tanimoto), with music by Ernst Reijseger,...
- 5/13/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
London-based sales house Film Constellation has boarded Oscar-winning director Werner Herzog’s Japanese-language narrative film “Family Romance,” which will have its world premiere in the special screenings section at the Cannes Film Festival.
Written and directed by Herzog, the movie was shot last spring and summer in Tokyo and Aomori, Japan, with non-professional actors. It follows a man who is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12-year-old girl. Herzog is keeping the plot details under wraps.
As with Herzog’s other works, “Family Romance” explores the recurring theme of individuals chasing impossible dreams, said Fabien Westerhoff, the CEO of Film Constellation.
“This is a project Werner Herzog has kept secret for the last year, and when Werner Herzog asks if you want to work with him, you say ‘Yes, where do I sign,'” Westerhoff said. “Not only because he is one of the greatest living filmmakers, but...
Written and directed by Herzog, the movie was shot last spring and summer in Tokyo and Aomori, Japan, with non-professional actors. It follows a man who is hired to impersonate the missing father of a 12-year-old girl. Herzog is keeping the plot details under wraps.
As with Herzog’s other works, “Family Romance” explores the recurring theme of individuals chasing impossible dreams, said Fabien Westerhoff, the CEO of Film Constellation.
“This is a project Werner Herzog has kept secret for the last year, and when Werner Herzog asks if you want to work with him, you say ‘Yes, where do I sign,'” Westerhoff said. “Not only because he is one of the greatest living filmmakers, but...
- 4/23/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Slate addition follows a piano tuner bringing keys to a remote Himalayan school.
Starline Entertainment has taken worldwide rights to Michal Sulima’s documentary Piano To Zanskar. Starline said the film fits into its “expanding portfolio of narratively driven documentaries.”
Piano To Zanskar, which won the works in progress award at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2017, follows the journey of Desmond Gentle, a 65-year-old piano tuner from London who wants to bring a 100-year-old piano to a small school in the remote Himalayas. The expedition takes the crew, including a team of Sherpas, across breathtaking, perilous landscape.
The documentary features an original soundtrack by Werner Herzog collaborator Ernst Reijseger. The producer is Jarek Kotomski of Between Friends, the company he runs with Sulima. The protagonist, Desmond Gentle, serves as executive producer. The film is at the end of post-production for delivery later this month.
Starline’s director of acquisitions Piers Nightingale, who discovered...
Starline Entertainment has taken worldwide rights to Michal Sulima’s documentary Piano To Zanskar. Starline said the film fits into its “expanding portfolio of narratively driven documentaries.”
Piano To Zanskar, which won the works in progress award at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2017, follows the journey of Desmond Gentle, a 65-year-old piano tuner from London who wants to bring a 100-year-old piano to a small school in the remote Himalayas. The expedition takes the crew, including a team of Sherpas, across breathtaking, perilous landscape.
The documentary features an original soundtrack by Werner Herzog collaborator Ernst Reijseger. The producer is Jarek Kotomski of Between Friends, the company he runs with Sulima. The protagonist, Desmond Gentle, serves as executive producer. The film is at the end of post-production for delivery later this month.
Starline’s director of acquisitions Piers Nightingale, who discovered...
- 2/17/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Sit down and listen up. Werner Herzog gave an incredible 100-minute lecture last month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and now the entire discussion is available to stream for free on the Red Bull Music Academy’s YouTube page. The lecture found Herzog reminiscing on the way music has played a part in his filmmaking. Over his 50-year career, he’s collaborated with the likes of krautrock band Popul Vuh, German composer Klaus Badelt and Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger.
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Herzog has been quite prolific recently. In the past two years alone, he has released two documentaries, “Lo and Behold” and the Netflix-released “Into the Inferno,” as well as two features, both “Salt and Fire” and the long-delayed “Queen of the Desert” were released theatrically in April.
While he’s well...
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Herzog has been quite prolific recently. In the past two years alone, he has released two documentaries, “Lo and Behold” and the Netflix-released “Into the Inferno,” as well as two features, both “Salt and Fire” and the long-delayed “Queen of the Desert” were released theatrically in April.
While he’s well...
- 6/2/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
If there’s one thing Germans love more than techno, it’s Werner Herzog. The legendary German New Wave director experienced a renaissance of sorts with “Grizzly Man” in 2005, propelling him to cult status amongst Millennials, and he has been riding that high ever since.
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Tonight, Herzog will sit down at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to discuss how music inspires his films, using clips to illustrate his unique ear. Throughout his more than 50-year career, Herzog has collaborated with a wide array of musicians, including krautrock band Popul Vuh, German composer Klaus Badelt and Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger. The event is part of the Red Bull Music Academy, an annual series of music workshops and festivals that travels to a different city every year. Founded in Berlin with an emphasis on techno and DJ culture,...
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Tonight, Herzog will sit down at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to discuss how music inspires his films, using clips to illustrate his unique ear. Throughout his more than 50-year career, Herzog has collaborated with a wide array of musicians, including krautrock band Popul Vuh, German composer Klaus Badelt and Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger. The event is part of the Red Bull Music Academy, an annual series of music workshops and festivals that travels to a different city every year. Founded in Berlin with an emphasis on techno and DJ culture,...
- 5/9/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Above: Hearsay of the Soul (Werner Herzog, 2012) J. Paul Getty Museum. © Werner Herzog
During a conversation held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Theater in conjunction with the premier of Hearsay of the Soul, Werner Herzog's multichannel audio/visual installation at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, the director shared with the crowd an exchange between himself and the curators which concluded with the proclamation “I’m not an artist, I'm a soldier.” He would elaborate that the art world had become “excessive,” going so far to say “I don't go to museums because I don't like art.” Herzog has for years displayed a knack for such rhetoric that often comes off as equal parts blunt sincerity and self-aware myth-building. With Hearsay of the Soul, currently on view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Herzog is able to address the excesses of the art world directly.
Rather than creating a physical art object,...
During a conversation held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Theater in conjunction with the premier of Hearsay of the Soul, Werner Herzog's multichannel audio/visual installation at the 2012 Whitney Biennial, the director shared with the crowd an exchange between himself and the curators which concluded with the proclamation “I’m not an artist, I'm a soldier.” He would elaborate that the art world had become “excessive,” going so far to say “I don't go to museums because I don't like art.” Herzog has for years displayed a knack for such rhetoric that often comes off as equal parts blunt sincerity and self-aware myth-building. With Hearsay of the Soul, currently on view at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Herzog is able to address the excesses of the art world directly.
Rather than creating a physical art object,...
- 3/10/2014
- by Daniel Watkins
- MUBI
Above: Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina on the set of La Strada, 1954. Via Le clown lyrique's gallery including stunning images of Anna Karina, Lotte Lenya, Katherine Hepburn, and Marlene Dietrich. Our friends at the Celluloid Liberation Front have helped produce an e-book for the Nisi Masa Film Journalism Workshop called Nisimazine. This issue focuses on the first feature and short films of Cannes 2012. It includes an interview with Benh Zeitlin, director of the Camera d'Or winning Beasts of the Southern Wild. Via Nicolas Jaar's "Essential Mix" for BBC 1 comes a superb "Conversation on Twin Peaks" with composer Angelo Badalamenti:
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive short companion piece to Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, featuring brief animated clips from the film's made-up children's books. More from Anderson: he shares his "10 favourite New York movies" in the New York Daily News, including, among others, a shout-out to the overlooked Life Lessons,...
Entertainment Weekly has an exclusive short companion piece to Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, featuring brief animated clips from the film's made-up children's books. More from Anderson: he shares his "10 favourite New York movies" in the New York Daily News, including, among others, a shout-out to the overlooked Life Lessons,...
- 6/13/2012
- MUBI
Quite the rave from Roberta Smith in the New York Times:
One of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory may or may not contain a lot more outstanding art than its predecessors, but that's not the point. The 2012 incarnation is a new and exhilarating species of exhibition, an emerging curatorial life form, at least for New York.
Possessed of a remarkable clarity of vision, a striking spatial intelligence and a generous stylistic inclusiveness, it places on an equal footing art objects and time-based art — not just video and performance art but music, dance, theater, film — and does so on a scale and with a degree of aplomb we have not seen before in this town. In a way that is at once superbly ordered and open-ended, densely structured and, upon first encounter, deceptively unassuming, the exhibition manages both to reinvent the signature show of the Whitney Museum of American...
One of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory may or may not contain a lot more outstanding art than its predecessors, but that's not the point. The 2012 incarnation is a new and exhilarating species of exhibition, an emerging curatorial life form, at least for New York.
Possessed of a remarkable clarity of vision, a striking spatial intelligence and a generous stylistic inclusiveness, it places on an equal footing art objects and time-based art — not just video and performance art but music, dance, theater, film — and does so on a scale and with a degree of aplomb we have not seen before in this town. In a way that is at once superbly ordered and open-ended, densely structured and, upon first encounter, deceptively unassuming, the exhibition manages both to reinvent the signature show of the Whitney Museum of American...
- 3/3/2012
- MUBI
Werner Herzog is personally participating in two events in New York this week, beginning tonight with Paul Holdengräber's Live from the New York Public Library conversation series and again with Holdengräber tomorrow at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a post-screening discussion of Herzog's use of music in The White Diamond and beyond. Screenings of Fitzcarraldo Friday night fill out Bam's duet of a series, Ode to the Dawn of Man: Film and Music with Werner Herzog. In addition, Herzog's video installation in the Whitney Biennial goes on display Thursday incorporating footage he filmed during an improvisation between cello and organ (here is a spellbinding clip of some of the footage from that session). Truly, 'tis the season in New York to contemplate the director's transformation of the world into music.
Herzog's knack for fusing his own astonishing images to somehow equally astonishing music has always been exceptional, to the...
Herzog's knack for fusing his own astonishing images to somehow equally astonishing music has always been exceptional, to the...
- 2/29/2012
- MUBI
The Cinema Eye Honors revealed the nominees for the 5th Annual Awards honoring Non-Fiction Filmmaking. Winners will be announced on January 11. Here's the list of the 2012 Cinema Eye Honors:
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking:
"The Arbor," Directed by Clio Barnard, Produced by Tracy O.Riordan
"Senna," Directed by Asif Kapadia; Produced by James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
"Project Nim," Directed by James Marsh, Produced by Simon Chinn
"Position Among the Stars," Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich, Produced by Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
"Nostalgia for the Light," Directed by Patricio Guzmán, Produced by Renate Sachse
"The Interrupters," Directed by Steve James, Produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Steve James
Outstanding Achievement in Direction:
Clio Barnard for "The Arbor"
Leonard Retel Helmrich for "Position Among the Stars"
Patricio Guzmán for "Nostalgia for the Light"
Steve James for "The Interrupters"
Danfung Dennis for "Hell and Back Again"
Outstanding Achievement in Production:
Erik Nelson...
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking:
"The Arbor," Directed by Clio Barnard, Produced by Tracy O.Riordan
"Senna," Directed by Asif Kapadia; Produced by James Gay-Rees, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
"Project Nim," Directed by James Marsh, Produced by Simon Chinn
"Position Among the Stars," Directed by Leonard Retel Helmrich, Produced by Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich
"Nostalgia for the Light," Directed by Patricio Guzmán, Produced by Renate Sachse
"The Interrupters," Directed by Steve James, Produced by Alex Kotlowitz and Steve James
Outstanding Achievement in Direction:
Clio Barnard for "The Arbor"
Leonard Retel Helmrich for "Position Among the Stars"
Patricio Guzmán for "Nostalgia for the Light"
Steve James for "The Interrupters"
Danfung Dennis for "Hell and Back Again"
Outstanding Achievement in Production:
Erik Nelson...
- 12/11/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
There was a lot of confusion following last year’s announcement that Werner Herzog would be filming his next documentary subject in 3D.
The confusion did not arise from the film's topic. Given Herzog's penchant to document far corners of the earth and regularly people his stories with cultural outsiders, it is no surprise that he would be drawn to the subject of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Only a handful of applicants, usually scientists and specialists, are permitted to enter each year to research the treasure trove of prehistoric drawings within. At upwards of 30,000 years old, they are the earliest such artworks known to exist. The surprise, even concern, was over a singular auteur embracing a technology which most have appraised as mere passing industry fad, and the reaction was especially understandable given Herzog’s almost non-existent reputation using special effects. His unique subject matter and imagery from...
The confusion did not arise from the film's topic. Given Herzog's penchant to document far corners of the earth and regularly people his stories with cultural outsiders, it is no surprise that he would be drawn to the subject of the Chauvet Cave in southern France. Only a handful of applicants, usually scientists and specialists, are permitted to enter each year to research the treasure trove of prehistoric drawings within. At upwards of 30,000 years old, they are the earliest such artworks known to exist. The surprise, even concern, was over a singular auteur embracing a technology which most have appraised as mere passing industry fad, and the reaction was especially understandable given Herzog’s almost non-existent reputation using special effects. His unique subject matter and imagery from...
- 4/30/2011
- MUBI
"Apples and oranges" was my off-the-cuff reply to a critic I admire as we rose from our seats following a screening of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams. He'd just muttered something to the effect of "sure beats Pina" and, while comparisons will be nearly impossible to resist — two giants of the New German Cinema have each made their first films in 3D, both of them documentaries, and, on that day in February, the Berlinale had just screened them back to back — I'm sticking with my initial verdict: apples and oranges.
Now Wim Wenders's Pina is playing in the UK and a few European countries, while Places, strange and quiet, an exhibition of nearly 40 large-scale photographs taken between 1983 and the present, is on view at Haunch of Venison in London through May 14 — the cover of the current issue of Sight & Sound, by the way, reads "The Third Coming...
Now Wim Wenders's Pina is playing in the UK and a few European countries, while Places, strange and quiet, an exhibition of nearly 40 large-scale photographs taken between 1983 and the present, is on view at Haunch of Venison in London through May 14 — the cover of the current issue of Sight & Sound, by the way, reads "The Third Coming...
- 4/29/2011
- MUBI
This History Channel funded Werner Herzog's foray into 3D filmmaking is a pretty straightforward documentary. Only it's in 3D. It is a rightful companion piece to Encounters at the End of the World where he explored otherworldly beauty of the world beneath the icy Antarctic Ocean. This time, it's the Chauvet cave of Southern France, the home of 32,000 years old cave drawings. Pristinely preserved by landslide covering up the entrance, the exquisite charcoal drawings of lively animals- lions, wooly rhinos, horses and bison had been untouched by natural elements and humans alike until the 1990s.
Just how he convinced French Cultural Ministry to give him the access for filming inside the fragile caves is a total mystery to me- another great addition to Herzog myth I'm sure. Armed with a custom made small 3D camera and with the crew of 3, he shows us under the dim, battery operated cold...
Just how he convinced French Cultural Ministry to give him the access for filming inside the fragile caves is a total mystery to me- another great addition to Herzog myth I'm sure. Armed with a custom made small 3D camera and with the crew of 3, he shows us under the dim, battery operated cold...
- 10/27/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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