Werner Herzog
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of his epic artistic career in a long-awaited memoir that is as inventive and daring as anything he has done before. Werner Herzog was born in September 1942 in Munich, Germany, at a turning point in the Second World War. Soon Germany would be defeated and a new world would have to be made out the rubble and horrors of the war. Fleeing the Allied bombing...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Werner Herzog, one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, in his first book in many years, tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who continued to defend a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War Two In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts there asked, whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Legendary master filmmaker Werner Herzog examines the past, present and constantly evolving future of the Internet. Herzog conducts original interviews with cyberspace pioneers and prophets such as PayPal and Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, Internet protocol inventor Bob Kahn, and famed hacker Kevin Mitnick. These provocative conversations reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works, from...
5) Fitzcarraldo
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c1981
Language
Deutsch
Description
Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
In this complex documentary from one of the most iconic voices of the German New Wave, Werner Herzog follows the child soldiers of Nicaragua during the Miskito resistance against the Sandinistas. True to Herzog form, this film ultimately illustrates the futility and senselessness of such violence.. Drawing connections to co-Director Denis Reichle's experiences serving as a child soldier towards the end of WWII, BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER, rather...
8) Nomad
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Told in Werner Herzog's inimitable style and bursting at the seams with unforgettable characters and encounters, NOMAD takes the viewer on a journey through the creative and personal vision Herzog shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of In Patagonia and a champion of the nomadic lifestyle.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
With Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Werner Herzog takes viewers on yet another unforgettable journey into remote and extreme natural landscapes. The acclaimed filmmaker presents this visually stunning documentary about the people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter...
10) Radical Dreamer
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Documentary filmmaker Thomas von Steinaecker spoke to people who have worked with Herzog over his long career. We also hear from Herzog himself, with extraordinary anecdotes about film locations and shoots, his admiration for Lotte Eisner, and his eternal search for beauty.
11) Jack Reacher
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college,...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
BALLAD OF A RIGHTEOUS MERCHANT explores the process through which this event, for which an ancient myth was the catalyst, is transformed into fiction. Building on the legacy of previous documentaries about Herzog, this one shows a side of him known only to his friends and close collaborators. Refreshingly candid and surprisingly revealing, this portrait in no way diminishes the revered director's mystique. Rather, it deepens appreciation of his humanity...
15) Fitzcarraldo
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1982.
Language
English
Description
Fitzcarraldo is an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his cunning plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across a small mountain with aid from the local Indians.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various "solutions" such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible...
17) Salt and Fire
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this 2016 eco-thriller directed by Werner Herzog, a scientist, Laura (Veronica Ferres), is kidnapped by a mysterious corporate figure, Matt Riley (Michael Shannon), while investigating an environmental disaster in South America. As tensions rise between them, a looming natural catastrophe threatens their survival. Laura soon discovers that their conflict might be part of a much larger plan. Combining philosophical musings with environmental themes,...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Terence McDonagh (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage) is a drug and gambling addled detective in post-Katrina New Orleans investigating the killing of five Senegalese immigrants in this gritty Crime drama from Oscar-nominated auteur, Werner Herzog. Also starring Oscar nominee Brad Dourif (*One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*), Eva Mendes (*Training Day*) and Val Kilmer (*Top Gun*). Nominated for Best Cinematography at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards**. Nominated...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
Noted by legendary film critic Roger Ebert as one of his top ten favorite films of all time, this masterpiece from Oscar-nominated director Werner Herzog is an unforgettable portrait of madness and power. In the mid-16th century, after annihilating the Incan empire, Gonzalo Pizarro (Allejandro Repulles) leads his army of conquistadors over the Andes into the heart of the most savage environment on earth in search of the fabled City of Gold, El Dorado....
20) Woyzeck
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But WOYZECK, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, WOYZECK is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, WOYZECK is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. WOYZECK, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods...