ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER Screening

Werner Herzog’s Academy Award-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (above, lower photo) and Irena Salina’s Flow: For Love of Water will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 28th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 21, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.
Directed by Herzog and produced by Henry Kaiser, Encounters at the End of the World looks at human beings interacting with the harsh environment of Antarctica. Werner Herzog will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.
Flow: For Love of Water deals with the dire consequences of increased privatization [...]

by Anna Robinson | October 14, 2009   
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Venice 2009: Werner Herzog, Marisa Berenson, Michael Shannon

Werner Herzog, Michael Shannon

Marisa Berenson

Tilda Swinton
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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by Monica Montenegro | September 13, 2009   
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Venice 2009: Eva Mendes, Werner Herzog, Nicolas Cage

Producer Edward R. Pressman with actors Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes, and director Werner Herzog at the Jaeger-LeCoultre Host Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans Dinner held at Cipriani during the 66th Venice Film Festival.
Photo: François Durand / 2009 Getty Images. Courtesy: Jaeger-LeCoultre

Eva Mendes

Edward R. Pressman, Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Jaeger-LeCoultre International Public Relations Director Isabelle Gervais, Werner Herzog

by Monica Montenegro | September 12, 2009   
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WOYZECK II – Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski in Woyzeck

WOYZECK Review: Part I
Written by Herzog, Woyzeck is an adaptation of an unfinished 1836 play by Georg Büchner (who died of typhus at twenty-three) that is reputedly based on a real murder of a military man’s lover. Until the turn of the twentieth century, Büchner and his play were all but forgotten, but the author was rediscovered when Modernism arose in the early part of the last century. Woyzeck was seen as a herald of both Modernism and Absurdism, with its lead character described as a sort of pre-Beckettian creation. Such interpretation is validated right in the first scene following the credits, as the camera, at faster-than-normal speed, shows an officer forcing Woyzeck to do squats [...]

by Dan Schneider | December 12, 2007   
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WOYZECK d: Werner Herzog

Woyzeck (1979)
Direction: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog; from a play by Georg Büchner
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler, Paul Burian, Volker Prechtel
 

Klaus Kinski in Woyzeck
 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
One of the signs of a great artist is that even when not at the top of his game he is still capable of flashes of utter brilliance. Such is the case in Werner Herzog’s Woyzeck (1979), starring his friend and bane Klaus Kinski in the third of five films made by the director-actor team.
Woyzeck is not a great film, but here and there it offers great moments. Part of the reason it fails to reach true greatness is that the story’s stage roots are too [...]

by Dan Schneider | December 12, 2007   
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SIGNS OF LIFE d: Werner Herzog

Lebenszeichen / Signs of Life (1968)
Direction: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog; inspired by Achim von Arnim’s story
Cast: Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Wolfgang Stumpf, Julio Pinheiro
 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
No filmmaker’s career has been more defined and structured by the musical choices he has made than that of Werner Herzog. This claim is evident from his first full-length feature, Lebenszeichen / Signs of Life (1968), which he made when he was twenty-four — three years after having written the screenplay. (He claims he got the idea for it when he was fifteen or sixteen, apparently from a story by German author Ludwig Achim von Arnim [1781-1831].) Though made by a newcomer, Signs of Life is an [...]

by Dan Schneider | February 9, 2007   
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Directors Guild Awards 2006

2006 Directors Guild Awards
2006 DGA award winners: January 28, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee © Directors Guild of America
 

Theatrical Features:
George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck.
Clooney’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Barbara A. Hall
First Assistant Director: David Webb
Second Assistant Director: Melissa V. Barnes
Second Second Assistant Director: Richard Gonzales
Paul Haggis, Crash
Haggis’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Betsy Danbury
First Assistant Director: Scott Cameron
Second Assistant Director: Simone Farber
* Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Lee’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Scott Ferguson, Tom Benz
First Assistant Directors: Michael Hausman, Pierre Tremblay
Second Assistant Director: Donald Murphy
Second Second Assistant Director: Brad Moerke
Bennett Miller, Capote
Miller’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Ellen Rutter, Caroline Baron
First Assistant Directors: Ronaldo Nacionales, Richard O’Brien Moran
Second Assistant Director: [...]

by Andre Soares | January 25, 2006   
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