It’s safe to say our cultural fascination with the blood-sucking undead isn’t going away anytime soon.
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Walter Saxer’s restrained and observational approach also proves disarmingly compassionate.
The documentary’s ethnographic bent is balanced out by a healthy dose of hard science.
A supplementary subject of most of Herzog’s work, which it shares with Chatwin’s, is a bottomless yearning for wonder.
Throughout, it’s as though Werner Herzog were more witness than author, simply registering Japan being Japan.
Werner Herzog’s documentary is a rare example of the arch ironist’s capacity to be awed not by nature but by man.
Throughout the film, Werner Herzog appears to be straining to impersonate his idea of classical studio craftsmanship.
It’s clear that the film’s aimless yet weirdly un-pretentious one-thing-after-another-ness is intentionally achieved.
The busy-ness of its conceit grounds Werner Herzog in a documentary procedural form that’s conventional.
Salt and Fire’s final act is one of the strongest sustained sequences of cinema Werner Herzog has crafted in some time.
It routinely alternates between episodes that contrast exhilaration with exploitation and damnation.
The film routinely alternates between episodes that contrast exhilaration with exploitation and damnation.
For all of its evident toil in recreating historically accurate environments, Edgar Reitz’s film has little force as a work of cinema.
Herzog’s intended opus, like the task of his unintended surrogate, was at once hampered and heightened by its leader’s creative vision.
Theoretically, the subject of Queen of the Desert could hardly be more Herzogian in nature.
It’s hard not to greet this as a major and incredibly ambitious home-video event.
In the summer of 1989, vampirism became instead a symbol of contemporary urban angst.
Herzog’s idiosyncratic horror classic remains a vital conversation between two distinct generations of brilliant German filmmakers.
The Unbelievers isn’t as galvanizing as it would like to be.
Without question, Bale remains one of Hollywood’s most versatile and risk-taking leading men.