list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Fitzcarraldo on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Fitzcarraldo/11817/default.aspx Title: Fitzcarraldo
Year: 1982
Director: Werner Herzog
Plot: German filmmaker Werner Herzog has never done anything by halves. When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America, the director boldly embarked on the same journey, disdaining studios, process shots, and special effects throughout. The highlight of the story is Fizcarraldo's Herculean effort to haul a 300-plus ton steamship over the mountains. No trickery was used in filming this grueling sequence, and stories still persist of disgruntled South American film technicians awaiting the opportunity to strangle Herzog if he ever sets foot on their land again. In the end, Herzog proved to be as driven and single-purposed as his protagonist, and it is the audience's knowledge of this that adds to the excitement of Fitzcarraldo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:52:53 GMTFitzcarraldo1982Werner HerzogGerman filmmaker <a href="/players/P____94214/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Werner Herzog</a> has never done anything by halves. When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed impresario (<a href="/players/P____38429/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Klaus Kinski</a>) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America, the director boldly embarked on the same journey, disdaining studios, process shots, and special effects throughout. The highlight of the story is Fizcarraldo's Herculean effort to haul a 300-plus ton steamship over the mountains. No trickery was used in filming this grueling sequence, and stories still persist of disgruntled South American film technicians awaiting the opportunity to strangle Herzog if he ever sets foot on their land again. In the end, Herzog proved to be as driven and single-purposed as his protagonist, and it is the audience's knowledge of this that adds to the excitement of Fitzcarraldo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide3Slightly Tagged (1-5)25784http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/t03716rsyrk.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Fitzcarraldo/11817/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2009/2/27/40726.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 2/27/2009 6:02:29 PM
Body: ATWT: Let me ask you about this book you have coming out, “The Conquest of the Useless”. WH: Ah yes, that’s a book, a prose book that’s going to be released in the summer by Harper Collins. The translation is just finished and I’m working on the translation, I’m doing some corrections and modifications. But it’s good that you mention it, because this book is certainly better than all of my films together. ATWT: Really? Why do you say? WH: When it’s out, read it and you will know. In an interview with AJ Schnack, Werner Herzog discusses his upcoming book, Conquest of the Useless, which will be released on June 30. According to Amazon, its subtitle is Reflections on the Making of Fitzcarraldo, which would suggest that it’s an English translation/update of a version of Herzog’s diaries from the making of that film which was already published in Italy. “Conquistadors of the useless” is a pet phrase of Herzog’s, popping up in Herzog and Herzog in reference to his determination to actually move the boat over the mountain in the making of Fitzcarraldo, rather than fake it or take it apart and move it in pieces. The phrase most recently appeared in print when he used it to describe “[most] everyone who climbs a steep cliff and climbs a building made of steel and glass,” when two men tried to coincidentally tried to scale the New York Times building the same day Herzog appeared there in coversation with Jonathan Demme. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:02:29 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog2/27/2009 6:02:29 PM ATWT: Let me ask you about this book you have coming out, “The Conquest of the Useless”. WH: Ah yes, that’s a book, a prose book that’s going to be released in the summer by Harper Collins. The translation is just finished and I’m working on the translation, I’m doing some corrections and modifications. But it’s good that you mention it, because this book is certainly better than all of my films together. ATWT: Really? Why do you say? WH: When it’s out, read it and you will know. In an interview with AJ Schnack, Werner Herzog discusses his upcoming book, Conquest of the Useless, which will be released on June 30. According to Amazon, its subtitle is Reflections on the Making of Fitzcarraldo, which would suggest that it’s an English translation/update of a version of Herzog’s diaries from the making of that film which was already published in Italy. “Conquistadors of the useless” is a pet phrase of Herzog’s, popping up in Herzog and Herzog in reference to his determination to actually move the boat over the mountain in the making of Fitzcarraldo, rather than fake it or take it apart and move it in pieces. The phrase most recently appeared in print when he used it to describe “[most] everyone who climbs a steep cliff and climbs a building made of steel and glass,” when two men tried to coincidentally tried to scale the New York Times building the same day Herzog appeared there in coversation with Jonathan Demme. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_Which_of_these_film_movments_have_produced_film/657/40557/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 2/19/2009 3:15:26 PM
Body: [quote user="pippin06"] This is out of my league too. I consider myself an average to above average filmgoer/viewer but am not sure if I've seen anything in any category (maybe I have and I didn't know it...but maybe not). Like I said, I saw a lot of French films in college, but who knows if they fall under New Wave or something like that... ...but maybe we could somehow start a discussion somewhere where people schooled in these film schools could make recommendations for beginners. That would be cool, right? Or, maybe it's already somewhere...anyone know? [/quote] Ok, well I'll try to give some insight on what I know about them and any recommendations I may have. Czechoslovakian New Wave may be one of the lesser movements listed here. It kind of started in the 60s. A discription from wikipedia says "Trademarks of the movement contain long unscripted dialogues, dark and absurd humour, and the casting of nonactors." I don't know if I've actually seen any, but some of the more popular ones are available from the Criterion Collection like The Shop on Main Street (which people have mentioned on Spout before), Closely Watched Trains, and lots of Milos Forman's (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Man on the Moon, Amadeus) early work like Loves of a Blonde and The Fireman's Ball. Dogme 95 was an official movement started by Lars Von Trier and a few other Danish filmmakers that had specific rules about it. You could actually submit your film to them to be labeled as an official Dogma 95 film. You can probably find the rules online somewhere, but it involved using only digital film and found locations, props, and costumes. You aren't supposed to add any special effects. The full rules are of course available at good old wikipedia. The most famous of the films would probably The Celebration, The Idiots, and my favorite, Julien Donkey-Boy. The French New Wave is a pretty broad movement usually referring to the iconoclastic filmmakers from France. I think the tail end of the 50s is really when this started to get into full swing. Like Tennenbaums mentioned earlier, Jean Luc-Godard and François Truffaut are often the most identifiable filmmakers with the movement, although there are probably dozens if not more who have been lumped into this movement. SkyPilot mentioned Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur. I have seen that one and was disappointed. I've also seen Godard's Breathless and Truffaut's Jules and Jim both of which I did not enjoy. Truffaut's The 400 Blows I appreciated a bit more, but still not a favorite. Some people throw Éric Rohmer into this category as well, although some argue his style is considerably different and stems from somewhere other than many other of the French New Wave filmmakers. I have enjoyed what little I've seen of his work. Expressionism was a movement in Europe in the early 20th century. It stressed intense emotion conveyed through exaggerated and distorted style and forms. The Germans took this movement and put it in film. I'm sure you recognize famous directors like F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. Some of these films had extremely expressionistic and highly unrealistic visuals like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Some like The Last Laugh were just more more distorted versions of reality. With all the Dracula talk that has happend on Spout at times I'm guessing you've also heard of Nosferatu. Some of Lang's works that came a bit later that are well known might also count like M and Metropolis. When I looked into it, I can't really define Iranian New Wave any better than just saying it's basically films that were made in Iran. I guess the most popular filmmaker is Abbas Kiarostami. Look him up and you may recognize a lot of his films. Maybe not. I have seen two films from Majid Majidi and would recommend The Color of Paradise. It's kind of recent though so I don't really know if it's a good representation of the first wave of the Iranian New Wave. Italian neorealism is what it probably sounds like. Italian films that stressed trying to give a realistic depiction of every day working class people. They did this by shootings things on location and often with non-actors. And a lot of the the "boring" action of normal life that might not find it's way into other films is here. Although I sure don't find it boring. The time frame we are looking at is the later forties. The most famous example is Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief which I would highly recommend, although De Sica's Shoeshine and Umberto D are also amazing. Other big name directors are Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini. The Japanese New Wave like the French New Wave were a bunch of iconoclastic filmmakers that started with works being released around the end of the 50s through the 70s. You could put Seijun Suzuki in this category who is one of my favorite directors. Tokyo Drifter, Fighting Elegy, Branded to Kill, and Youth of the Beast are all fims of his that I love and are available on the Criterion Collection. Hiroshi Teshigahara also has some of his movies released through Criterion, one of which, Woman in the Dunes, I just saw recently and is amazing. Shohei Imamura also has some of his movies available through Criterion (this is basically just a big Criterion ad). Nagisa Oshima is probably the biggest name from this moment in my mind and I'm rather embarassed to say I still haven't seen any of his films. Mumblecore core is the newest term on this list and has gotten a lot of press on Spout, so maybe you've heard of it. I don't know if I've really seen any movies that would fit this category hardcore, but you probably recognize the trend in independent cinema. I think it has a lot to do with young adults living in big cities. Very low budget. Lots of slang and hip music and culture references with a realistic style. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. Joe Swanberg had a short film series on Spout for a while I think. New French Extremity is the other really new term here. I just came across the name recently to refer to a recent wave of confrontational French films ove the past decade or so. You know how we had a group here on spout called "extreme films"? Well a lot of these would probably fit in nice there. They show you the extreme fifth, cruelty, and violence of humanity often in graphic detail. You may recognize a lot of these names. Gaspar Noé's Irreversible is one of the most well known state side I think. It's the one that runs backwards. I've seen his I Stand Alone and let me say it's pretty striking and depression, very confrontational to the dark and depressing side of the human condition. Other examples are some of Claire Denis' and Leos Carax's recent work, Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Humanité), Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl). Maybe you have also heard of the infamous Baise-moi (Fuck Me). If you listen to a lot of the horror fans we have on the site too you may hear them rave about many of the violent horror films comming out of France recently. These could probably fit in well too. The most well known now being High Tension. As for New German Cinema, you've heard of Werner Herzog right?? He's one of my favorites (check out The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Stroszek, Fitzcarraldo). Well he and some other German folks such as R. W. Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (the guy made well over fourty films in a span of sixteen years including the fifteen hour long Berlin Alexanderplatz)), Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas), Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum) and several others started making the first original movies starting in the late 60s since before the rise of the Nazis (Werner Herzog even made a remake of the classic German film Nosferatu). Finally Germany was a force in the world of Cinema making original and revolutionary films again. Anyone have anything to add?
]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:15:26 GMTRisseladaMovie Polls2/19/2009 3:15:26 PM[quote user="pippin06"] This is out of my league too. I consider myself an average to above average filmgoer/viewer but am not sure if I've seen anything in any category (maybe I have and I didn't know it...but maybe not). Like I said, I saw a lot of French films in college, but who knows if they fall under New Wave or something like that... ...but maybe we could somehow start a discussion somewhere where people schooled in these film schools could make recommendations for beginners. That would be cool, right? Or, maybe it's already somewhere...anyone know? [/quote] Ok, well I'll try to give some insight on what I know about them and any recommendations I may have. Czechoslovakian New Wave may be one of the lesser movements listed here. It kind of started in the 60s. A discription from wikipedia says "Trademarks of the movement contain long unscripted dialogues, dark and absurd humour, and the casting of nonactors." I don't know if I've actually seen any, but some of the more popular ones are available from the Criterion Collection like The Shop on Main Street (which people have mentioned on Spout before), Closely Watched Trains, and lots of Milos Forman's (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Man on the Moon, Amadeus) early work like Loves of a Blonde and The Fireman's Ball. Dogme 95 was an official movement started by Lars Von Trier and a few other Danish filmmakers that had specific rules about it. You could actually submit your film to them to be labeled as an official Dogma 95 film. You can probably find the rules online somewhere, but it involved using only digital film and found locations, props, and costumes. You aren't supposed to add any special effects. The full rules are of course available at good old wikipedia. The most famous of the films would probably The Celebration, The Idiots, and my favorite, Julien Donkey-Boy. The French New Wave is a pretty broad movement usually referring to the iconoclastic filmmakers from France. I think the tail end of the 50s is really when this started to get into full swing. Like Tennenbaums mentioned earlier, Jean Luc-Godard and Fran&ccedil;ois Truffaut are often the most identifiable filmmakers with the movement, although there are probably dozens if not more who have been lumped into this movement. SkyPilot mentioned Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur. I have seen that one and was disappointed. I've also seen Godard's Breathless and Truffaut's Jules and Jim both of which I did not enjoy. Truffaut's The 400 Blows I appreciated a bit more, but still not a favorite. Some people throw &Eacute;ric Rohmer into this category as well, although some argue his style is considerably different and stems from somewhere other than many other of the French New Wave filmmakers. I have enjoyed what little I've seen of his work. Expressionism was a movement in Europe in the early 20th century. It stressed intense emotion conveyed through exaggerated and distorted style and forms. The Germans took this movement and put it in film. I'm sure you recognize famous directors like F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. Some of these films had extremely expressionistic and highly unrealistic visuals like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Some like The Last Laugh were just more more distorted versions of reality. With all the Dracula talk that has happend on Spout at times I'm guessing you've also heard of Nosferatu. Some of Lang's works that came a bit later that are well known might also count like M and Metropolis. When I looked into it, I can't really define Iranian New Wave any better than just saying it's basically films that were made in Iran. I guess the most popular filmmaker is Abbas Kiarostami. Look him up and you may recognize a lot of his films. Maybe not. I have seen two films from Majid Majidi and would recommend The Color of Paradise. It's kind of recent though so I don't really know if it's a good representation of the first wave of the Iranian New Wave. Italian neorealism is what it probably sounds like. Italian films that stressed trying to give a realistic depiction of every day working class people. They did this by shootings things on location and often with non-actors. And a lot of the the "boring" action of normal life that might not find it's way into other films is here. Although I sure don't find it boring. The time frame we are looking at is the later forties. The most famous example is Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief which I would highly recommend, although De Sica's Shoeshine and Umberto D are also amazing. Other big name directors are Luchino Visconti and Roberto Rossellini. The Japanese New Wave like the French New Wave were a bunch of iconoclastic filmmakers that started with works being released around the end of the 50s through the 70s. You could put Seijun Suzuki in this category who is one of my favorite directors. Tokyo Drifter, Fighting Elegy, Branded to Kill, and Youth of the Beast are all fims of his that I love and are available on the Criterion Collection. Hiroshi Teshigahara also has some of his movies released through Criterion, one of which, Woman in the Dunes, I just saw recently and is amazing. Shohei Imamura also has some of his movies available through Criterion (this is basically just a big Criterion ad). Nagisa Oshima is probably the biggest name from this moment in my mind and I'm rather embarassed to say I still haven't seen any of his films. Mumblecore core is the newest term on this list and has gotten a lot of press on Spout, so maybe you've heard of it. I don't know if I've really seen any movies that would fit this category hardcore, but you probably recognize the trend in independent cinema. I think it has a lot to do with young adults living in big cities. Very low budget. Lots of slang and hip music and culture references with a realistic style. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. Joe Swanberg had a short film series on Spout for a while I think. New French Extremity is the other really new term here. I just came across the name recently to refer to a recent wave of confrontational French films ove the past decade or so. You know how we had a group here on spout called "extreme films"? Well a lot of these would probably fit in nice there. They show you the extreme fifth, cruelty, and violence of humanity often in graphic detail. You may recognize a lot of these names. Gaspar No&eacute;'s Irreversible is one of the most well known state side I think. It's the one that runs backwards. I've seen his I Stand Alone and let me say it's pretty striking and depression, very confrontational to the dark and depressing side of the human condition. Other examples are some of Claire Denis' and Leos Carax's recent work, Bruno Dumont (The Life of Jesus, Humanit&eacute;), Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl). Maybe you have also heard of the infamous Baise-moi (Fuck Me). If you listen to a lot of the horror fans we have on the site too you may hear them rave about many of the violent horror films comming out of France recently. These could probably fit in well too. The most well known now being High Tension. As for New German Cinema, you've heard of Werner Herzog right?? He's one of my favorites (check out The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Stroszek, Fitzcarraldo). Well he and some other German folks such as R. W. Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (the guy made well over fourty films in a span of sixteen years including the fifteen hour long Berlin Alexanderplatz)), Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas), Volker Schl&ouml;ndorff (The Tin Drum) and several others started making the first original movies starting in the late 60s since before the rise of the Nazis (Werner Herzog even made a remake of the classic German film Nosferatu). Finally Germany was a force in the world of Cinema making original and revolutionary films again. Anyone have anything to add? http://www.spout.com/blogs/risselada/archive/2008/11/4/36962.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 11/4/2008 3:13:36 PM
Body: This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown round #2”. Read more about that here. Burden of Dreams For a moment I was almost thinking about rating this movie lower than what I actually did: a 9 out of 10. Maybe that was because the movie didn't exactly exceed my expectations, but it certainly was what I expected. And since I had seen Fizcarraldo and have listened to Werner Herzog speak about many different things I had been expecting a lot. I have said that I could listen to Herzog talk about almost anything. He is by far my favorite director to listen to his commentary tracks on DVDs of his movies. In fact I wish every DVD had a commentary track by Herzog, even if he had nothing to do with the film. It's partially his strange yet soothing accent, but mostly his amazing outlook on life and art. Even if I don't find all of his films the greatest, I am always fascinated by whatever he is doing and have so much respect for what he tries to do. And in this movie you certainly get a lot of him talking and his viewpoint on art and film. I'm sure if I'd never heard him speak before seeing this, I would have been even more blown away! I also think I was expecting some more tantrums from Kinski. I had seen a clip of him raving on the set of Fitzcarraldo before seeing this film, and I thought it would be in here. In fact it wasn't, but it was shot by Les Blank this film's director. I guess Herzog used it later in My Best Fiend. Maybe that's the movie I should be looking to for my Kinski tantrums. The criterion DVD for his movie also features the interesting short Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. Just in case you can't get quite enough of the man. Rating 9/10
]]>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:13:36 GMTRisseladaRisselada Blog11/4/2008 3:13:36 PMThis blog entry is part of my &ldquo;movie year countdown round #2&rdquo;. Read more about that here. Burden of Dreams For a moment I was almost thinking about rating this movie lower than what I actually did: a 9 out of 10. Maybe that was because the movie didn't exactly exceed my expectations, but it certainly was what I expected. And since I had seen Fizcarraldo and have listened to Werner Herzog speak about many different things I had been expecting a lot. I have said that I could listen to Herzog talk about almost anything. He is by far my favorite director to listen to his commentary tracks on DVDs of his movies. In fact I wish every DVD had a commentary track by Herzog, even if he had nothing to do with the film. It's partially his strange yet soothing accent, but mostly his amazing outlook on life and art. Even if I don't find all of his films the greatest, I am always fascinated by whatever he is doing and have so much respect for what he tries to do. And in this movie you certainly get a lot of him talking and his viewpoint on art and film. I'm sure if I'd never heard him speak before seeing this, I would have been even more blown away! I also think I was expecting some more tantrums from Kinski. I had seen a clip of him raving on the set of Fitzcarraldo before seeing this film, and I thought it would be in here. In fact it wasn't, but it was shot by Les Blank this film's director. I guess Herzog used it later in My Best Fiend. Maybe that's the movie I should be looking to for my Kinski tantrums. The criterion DVD for his movie also features the interesting short Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. Just in case you can't get quite enough of the man. Rating 9/10 http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/31/36841.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 10/31/2008 10:01:19 AM
Body: Just in time for Halloween, Kevin Smith’s new film Zack & Miri Make a Porno hits theaters tonight. The only scary thing about it are the dirty jokes that flop, but the movie as a whole is quite funny. Is Kevin Smith a juvenile genius? Is Zack and Miri his Fitzcarroldo (as Paul claims)? These are the things we ponder amidst a plethora poop and dick jokes. Karina offers her reflections on Mad Men now that the second season has ended. She also implores us to watch The Bride of Frankenstein, and we do. Paul has some additional thoughts on the 1935 classic. Be sure to keep up on all things FilmCouch by following us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/filmcouch. (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store or to our RSS feed and an episode will download each Friday) 0:00 - Intro 3:17 - Zack & Miri Make a Porno 21:49 - Karina on Mad Men, The Bride of Frankenstein, Moonlighting 31:45 - Paul on The Bride of Frankenstein 37:16 - Outro, who’s better: Smith or Tarantino? filmcouch-94 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:19 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/31/2008 10:01:19 AM Just in time for Halloween, Kevin Smith’s new film Zack & Miri Make a Porno hits theaters tonight. The only scary thing about it are the dirty jokes that flop, but the movie as a whole is quite funny. Is Kevin Smith a juvenile genius? Is Zack and Miri his Fitzcarroldo (as Paul claims)? These are the things we ponder amidst a plethora poop and dick jokes. Karina offers her reflections on Mad Men now that the second season has ended. She also implores us to watch The Bride of Frankenstein, and we do. Paul has some additional thoughts on the 1935 classic. Be sure to keep up on all things FilmCouch by following us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/filmcouch. (Subscribe to FilmCouch–Spout’s weekly movie podcast–in the iTunes store or to our RSS feed and an episode will download each Friday) 0:00 - Intro 3:17 - Zack & Miri Make a Porno 21:49 - Karina on Mad Men, The Bride of Frankenstein, Moonlighting 31:45 - Paul on The Bride of Frankenstein 37:16 - Outro, who’s better: Smith or Tarantino? filmcouch-94 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/paul/archive/2007/12/21/23046.aspx Post By: paul
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Post Date: 12/21/2007 4:15:16 PM
Body: Paul and Kevin go to NY without ever leaving the office. Karina Longworth gives us the down low on the Tribeca Film Festival (check out her posts here). Interviews with Jesse Eisenberg (Roger Dodger, The Squid and the Whale) and Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) on Durst’s feature debut, The Education of Charlie Banks. Zak Penn, The Grand, talks about the comedy duo Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back Cotter) and Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo). A new interview with Julia Loktev on Day Night Day Night, her film opens tonight in theaters. Download FilmCouch #19 or subscribe in the iTunes store (search for “filmcouch” or click here to launch iTunes) and a new free episode will download every Friday. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul
]]>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:15:16 GMTpaulpaul on spout.com12/21/2007 4:15:16 PMPaul and Kevin go to NY without ever leaving the office. Karina Longworth gives us the down low on the Tribeca Film Festival (check out her posts here). Interviews with Jesse Eisenberg (Roger Dodger, The Squid and the Whale) and Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit) on Durst’s feature debut, The Education of Charlie Banks. Zak Penn, The Grand, talks about the comedy duo Gabe Kaplan (Welcome Back Cotter) and Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo). A new interview with Julia Loktev on Day Night Day Night, her film opens tonight in theaters. Download FilmCouch #19 or subscribe in the iTunes store (search for “filmcouch” or click here to launch iTunes) and a new free episode will download every Friday. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul http://www.spout.com/groups/Directors/Re_My_favorite_directors_by_algorithm/406/15268/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 7/18/2007 7:48:44 PM
Body: [quote user="Windbreaker"] I haven't seen a single Herzog movie. What should I queue up? And what's he known for? And why doesn't my avatar show up on these posts?...and where the hell was I?[/quote]I don't know what's up with your avatar, but my favorite Herzog movie is probably The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.Other popular ones are Stroszek, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and Fitzcarraldo. And that's actually just some of his fictional narrative films. He has many documentaries too, of which his recent Grizzly Man is one of my favorites.
]]>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:48:44 GMTRisseladaDirectors7/18/2007 7:48:44 PM[quote user="Windbreaker"] I haven&#39;t seen a single Herzog movie. What should I queue up? And what&#39;s he known for? And why doesn&#39;t my avatar show up on these posts?...and where the hell was I?[/quote]I don&#39;t know what&#39;s up with your avatar, but my favorite Herzog movie is probably The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.Other popular ones are Stroszek, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and Fitzcarraldo. And that&#39;s actually just some of his fictional narrative films. He has many documentaries too, of which his recent Grizzly Man is one of my favorites. http://www.spout.com/blogs/analogzombie/archive/2007/7/13/14060.aspx Post By: analogzombie
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Post Date: 7/13/2007 8:53:00 PM
Body: In 1979 Werner Herzog set out to make Fittzcarraldo, a story about a caucho era rubber baron who tried to pull a steam ship over a mountain to bring opera to Quito. This a documentary about that shoot.With everything from native indian attacks, wild accusations about Herzog executing workers en masse, less than competant engineers, last minute recasting, screaming fits from the lead actor, and cost overages, the last thing Herzog had to worry about was actually pulling a real boat over a real mountain. Yet, he achieved that, and finished his film to boot. Burden of Dreams is a window into the mind of a mad genius. Herzog is shown as an artist so clear about his art that he will literally and metaphorically push himself, and those around him, to the brink of destruction. Director Les Blank's camera finds him at the production's most honest points. He chooses to focus on the lives of the natives that have come to take part in the film, as much as on Kinski and the director. What develops is a film that is more than a making of, more than a portarit of an artist at work. What emerges is a story as engaging as Fittzcarraldo. Herzog and his main character have fused into a single being. It is no surpruise then, that the task of pulling the ship over the mountain is not only completely real, but also more difficult than what was done in events that inspired the film. The real Fittzcarraldo disected the ship into hundreds of parts to be reassembled on the other side of the river. The film and necessarily the ship wrenching act itself have become almost an obsession. As Werner states in the documentary "I live or die with this film."
]]>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:53:00 GMTanalogzombieanalogzombie Blog7/13/2007 8:53:00 PMIn 1979 Werner Herzog set out to make Fittzcarraldo, a story about a caucho era rubber baron who tried to pull a steam ship over a mountain to bring opera to Quito. This a documentary about that shoot.With everything from native indian attacks, wild accusations about Herzog executing workers en masse, less than competant engineers, last minute recasting, screaming fits from the lead actor, and cost overages, the last thing Herzog had to worry about was actually pulling a real boat over a real mountain. Yet, he achieved that, and finished his film to boot. Burden of Dreams is a window into the mind of a mad genius. Herzog is shown as an artist so clear about his art that he will literally and metaphorically push himself, and those around him, to the brink of destruction. Director Les Blank&#39;s camera finds him at the production&#39;s most honest points. He chooses to focus on the lives of the natives that have come to take part in the film, as much as on Kinski and the director. What develops is a film that is more than a making of, more than a portarit of an artist at work. What emerges is a story as engaging as Fittzcarraldo. Herzog and his main character have fused into a single being. It is no surpruise then, that the task of pulling the ship over the mountain is not only completely real, but also more difficult than what was done in events that inspired the film. The real Fittzcarraldo disected the ship into hundreds of parts to be reassembled on the other side of the river. The film and necessarily the ship wrenching act itself have become almost an obsession. As Werner states in the documentary "I live or die with this film." http://www.spout.com/blogs/chesterfilms/archive/2007/7/7/13335.aspx Post By: chesterfilms
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Post Date: 7/7/2007 1:06:09 PM
Body: I'm calling this one my Annie Hall/Barry Lyndon Memorial list (just to keep it interesting).1. Fitzcarraldo (1982) - It's the story of a man who will stop at nothing to pull a ship over a mountain, made by a a man who will stop at nothing to make a film about a man who pulls a ship over a mountain.2. Faust (1926) - Have you seen this film? Seriously, how the heck did they make this thing back then. Very scary.3. Alexander Nevsky (1938) - So unbelievably epic. You can still see it's influence on films Action/Epic films to this day. 4. Ed Wood (1994) - Burton's best film ever. The best biopic film ever. Best film of 1994. One of my favorite films of all time.5. Mary Poppins (1964) - Loved it as a kid. Love it as an adult. It's a classic that never grows old or dated, so shut up!!Here are some of my runners up:Princess Mononoke (1997)Ivan The Terrible Part:I (1944)Barton Fink (1991)
]]>Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:06:09 GMTchesterfilmschesterfilms Blog7/7/2007 1:06:09 PMI'm calling this one my Annie Hall/Barry Lyndon Memorial list (just to keep it interesting).1. Fitzcarraldo (1982) - It's the story of a man who will stop at nothing to pull a ship over a mountain, made by a a man who will stop at nothing to make a film about a man who pulls a ship over a mountain.2. Faust (1926) - Have you seen this film? Seriously, how the heck did they make this thing back then. Very scary.3. Alexander Nevsky (1938) - So unbelievably epic. You can still see it's influence on films Action/Epic films to this day. 4. Ed Wood (1994) - Burton's best film ever. The best biopic film ever. Best film of 1994. One of my favorite films of all time.5. Mary Poppins (1964) - Loved it as a kid. Love it as an adult. It's a classic that never grows old or dated, so shut up!!Here are some of my runners up:Princess Mononoke (1997)Ivan The Terrible Part:I (1944)Barton Fink (1991) http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_The_Zombie_Phenomenon/222/10264/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Risselada
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Post Date: 6/6/2007 12:49:34 PM
Body: [quote user="quint"]Fitzcarraldo anyone? But hey, I'd vote for Klaus Kinski's Paganini.[/quote]Yeah but they very well may have actually been crazy. I was wondering if there was a director who has made a movie in which the director of the movie seems to be crazy, but actually the intention is very intentional and well crafted.
]]>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:49:34 GMTRisseladaHORROR MOVIES 1016/6/2007 12:49:34 PM[quote user="quint"]Fitzcarraldo anyone? But hey, I&#39;d vote for Klaus Kinski&#39;s Paganini.[/quote]Yeah but they very well may have actually been crazy. I was wondering if there was a director who has made a movie in which the director of the movie seems to be crazy, but actually the intention is very intentional and well crafted. http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_The_Zombie_Phenomenon/222/10159/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: joem18b
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Post Date: 6/4/2007 11:33:36 PM
Body: "Fitzcarraldo anyone? But hey, I'd vote for Klaus Kinski's Paganini." I was thinking about Aquierre: Wrath of God, during which Kinski almost drove Werner Herzog crazy. Didn't know Kinskii had himself directed.When Michael Powell made "Peeping Tom (1960)," there were some who said that he must be disturbed. He didn't get much work after that.
]]>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:33:36 GMTjoem18bHORROR MOVIES 1016/4/2007 11:33:36 PM"Fitzcarraldo anyone? But hey, I&#39;d vote for Klaus Kinski&#39;s Paganini." I was thinking about Aquierre: Wrath of God, during which Kinski almost drove Werner Herzog crazy. Didn&#39;t know Kinskii had himself directed.When Michael Powell made "Peeping Tom (1960)," there were some who said that he must be disturbed. He didn&#39;t get much work after that. http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/obsession/MemberTagFilms.aspxobsession
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