World’s Greatest Dad: I have never liked those wholesome family comedies or dramas. Hated Problem Child. Loathed ET. Cried during The Lion King for all the wrong reasons. Swore upon my grandma’s grave that I’d find and kill the Little Mermaid, Lassie, Flipper and those annoying 101 Dalmatians. That kind of sparked the anger I [...]
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The collected works of Werner Herzog, part 3
Posted in film, tagged Bruce Chatwin novel, Carlo Gesualdo, Cerra Torre, Cobra Verde, Dark Glow of the Mountains, Death Of Five Voices, Francisco Felix de Sousa, Herzog and Kinski, Juliane Köpcke, Klaus Kinski, LANSA Flight 508, Lektionen in Finsternis, Lessons Of Darkness, My Best Fiend, Renaissance music, Schrei Aus Stein, Scream Of Stone, Sturz In Den Dschungel, Ten Minutes Older The Trumpet, The Viceroy of Ouidah, Tod Für Fünf Stimmen, werner herzog, Where the Green Ants Dream, Wings Of Hope, Wo Die Grünen Ameisen Träumen, ZDF on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wo Die Grünen Ameisen Träumen (Where the Green Ants Dream): Sounds like a Philip Dick novel doesn’t it? (self high-five for 3,456th pop culture reference). Anyway, Wo Die Grünen Ameisen Träumen gives us the impression that it is based on an ancient, deep-rooted local folklore. The film takes us through an age-old confrontation between Australian [...]
The collected works of Werner Herzog, part 2
Posted in film, tagged Bruno Schleinstein, Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald, Fitzcarraldo, Friedrich Murnau, Georg Büchner, Glaube Und Währung, God’s Angry Man, Herzog and Kinski, ian Curtis, Max Schreck, Nosferatu, Stroszek, televangelist Gene Scott, werner herzog, Woyzeck on June 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stroszek: In 1977, Werner Herzog wrote Stroszek in four days just to accommodate the maniacal talent of German actor Bruno Schleinstein (who, by the way, had no training in acting whatsoever). The brevity is quite startling considering how brilliantly Herzog has structured the story. Talk all you want about artistic impulse, but it takes more [...]
The collected works of Werner Herzog, part 1
Posted in film, tagged Aguirre, Andromeda Nebula, Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen, Bruno Schleinstein, Cannes Film Festival, der Zorn Gottes Aguire, Even Dwarves Started Small, Heart Of Glass, Herz aus Glas, Jeder Für Sich Und Gott Gegen Alle, Kaspar Hauser, Kaspar myth, Last Words, Lebenszeichen, Leonard Cohen’s ballads, Letzte Worte, Mayan creation myth, Mit Mir Will Keiner Spielen, No One Will Play With Me, Peter Brogle, Popol Vuh, Signs Of Life, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Walter Steiner, werner herzog, Werner Herzog’s filmography, Wrath Of God on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been quite the pleasure devouring Werner Herzog’s filmography in high-definition. Unlike most other DVD box sets, never once did this collection seem even a trifle overwhelming in content. Whilst it would have made me a happier person if the TV specials – Herdsmen Of The Sun, The Transformation Of The World Into Music [...]
Weekend ‘happy without pills’ message
Posted in film, tagged Aqua Team Hunger Force, Collector’s Edition, DVD reviews, jim jarmusch, Old Parsons Complex Chennai, Space Ghost Coast To Coast, upcoming movie reviews, werner herzog on May 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My tri-weekly trips to the Rainbow DVD shop at Old Parsons Complex have yielded many sighs of delirious satisfaction. Like the time I got my hands on the Aqua Team Hunger Force feature film (No seriously, it is at a level of awesome that one would normally associate with Space Ghost Coast To Coast). Or [...]
Movie review: Herzog and Chappelle Show
Posted in film, tagged alan yentob, BBC Beyond Reason, BBC imagine, chappelle show, christian bale and Herzog, Dave Chappelle, dave chappelle’s block party, dead prez, Fugees reunion, HBO, kanye west, Klaus kinski gunpoint, Michael Gondry, most def, werner herzog on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Firstly, big props to Jerry for the steady flow of bittorrent downloads. I pretty much spent the weekend tripping out episodes from the Dave Chappelle Show and Werner Herzog films. Keep em coming, son.
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party: For the past two decades, Dave Chappelle has been a lot of things. A socially relevant intellectual. [...]
Movie review: Sad architects, psycho stalkers and Billy Bibbit
Posted in film, tagged born and bred, brad dourif, catherine hardwicke, Eden lake, guillermo nieto, henry kaiser, last house on the left, lateralus, movie reviews, pablo trapero, reijsiger, straw dogs, twilight, virgin spring, werner herzog, wes craven, wild blue yonder on March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last House On The Left: Wes Craven’s 1972 classic ranks alongside the likes of James Watkins’ Eden Lake and Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs in its propensity to scare the living shit out of me. Much like Straw Dogs and Eden Lake, Last House On The Left is a slumbering beast that works tremendously well based [...]
Dexter exits Bangalore to shed blood in Chennai
Posted in film, tagged akira kurosawa, blogger, darkly dreaming dexter, david cronenberg, dexter, ebert, jeff lindsay, papa bear, roger ebert, six feet under, werner herzog on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am an arrogant person. Most people who know me really well would testify to that. Maybe it’s my presumption that I am more perceptive than almost everyone else or perhaps it has something to do with how monstrous my ego can be. Whatever it is, it seriously inhibits me from appreciating new forms of [...]
Movie review: Nasty cities, strange encounters and bad caves
Posted in film, tagged beat the devil, cidade dos homens, city of god, encounters at the end of the world, london to brighton, neil marshall, paul andrew, the descent, werner herzog on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
London To Brighton
Director’s Paul Andrew vision of London is more terrifying than Guy Ritchie’s worst nightmare. While the latter litters London suburbia with wisecracking hooligans and tenacious hit men, Andrew has chosen a far more realistic path that leaves his characters at the mercy of their actions, rather than of playful irony. The storyline is [...]
