Werner Herzog
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
German
Description
He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go, and told stories in ways no one had ever considered. This masterpiece illustrates why Werner Hertzog is the most daring, visionary, and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime. The director that both Milos Forman and Francois Truffaut have called 'the greatest filmmaker alive today.'
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
German
Description
Lessons of darkness: A stirring documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers. What resulted is less a simple documentary about an environmental catastrophe than an apocalyptic vision of hell, a strangely beautiful portrait of a world on fire.
Fata Morgana: Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images...
45) Short films
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The first film is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. The second film is a visit to the annual world championship of livestock auctioneers in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. La Soufrière is about the anticipated eruption of a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the man who chooses to stay behind when everyone else evacuates.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When renowned director Werner Herzog and fellow filmmaker Zak Penn set off to explore the legend of Scotland's Loch Ness monster, they uncover much more than they bargained for. Unexplained sightings of the creature and chaos among the crew create an uneasy feeling that things aren't what they seem. But what really happened on the infamous lake remains a mystery. Poses the provocative question - where does myth end and reality begin?
Series
Publisher
Shout! Factory, [2022]
Pub. Date
2022
Language
German
Description
"He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare go and told stories in ways no one had ever considered. These eleven films illustrate why Werner Herzog is the most daring, visionary and dangerous filmmaker of our lifetime--the director that both Milos Forman and François Truffaut have called 'the greatest filmmaker alive today'"--Container.
Publisher
Infinity Media Holdings Ltd
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Lance Hackett is a sympathetic geologist working in Australia for an uranium mining company who must confront the passive resistance of the aborigine tribes. The spot where the deposits are the richest is considered sacred ground. For the aborigine people, the place where the deposits lay is considered the place "where the green ants dream", for them this place is considered the origin of all life. In the clash between white imperialism and a more...
49) Invincible
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story, an extraordinary tale of a simple Jewish man who rises from a life of obscurity to defend his heritage. With Hitler on the brink of power and the world on the road to war. A journey from a humble village in Poland to the giddy excesses of 1930's Berlin and the risks he took to fight for his people.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
German
Description
Set in the pre-industrial past, the story tells of a German village that loses the secret of making its unique Ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary.
52) Fitzcarraldo
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
German
Description
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman who struggles to bring his dream, an opera house in the Amazon jungle, to reality.
Publisher
Subversive CInema
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
From legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog comes an inspired vision: As humans search for a new planet to colonize, aliens attempt to settle on the nearly uninhabitable earth. Brad Dourif's performance as an alien interviewing real-life respected scientists, is followed by a personal plea to save our planet.
Publisher
Corinth Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
German
Description
Set in a dreary, unforgiving mid-nineteenth century German village in Hunsruck, it captures the plight of hundreds of thousands of Europeans who immigrated to faraway South America to escape the famine, poverty and despotism that ruled at home. Edgar Reitz's film is a heart-wrenching drama and love story set against the backdrop of this forgotten tragedy. Jakob, our protagonist, tries to immerse himself in literature and learning, as the rest of his...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping overview that explores how tattoos were used in early Christian practices, how they were discovered halfway around the world during the voyages of Captain James Cook, and how they exploded in popularity in America beginning with artists like Ed Hardy.
58) Dinotasia
Publisher
Flatiron Film Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The dinosaur gets a makeover and then some in this fantastically groundbreaking documentary. Based on cutting-edge paleontology and the latest fossil records, Dinotasia presents a series of vignettes about dinosaurs, both familiar faces and some we have only found out about in the past ten years. The film uses CGI to bring the stories to life, but draws on animation's birth in silent film and early Disney to create proper, traditional visual storytelling....
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Terence McDonagh is a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is to scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he becomes a high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective reigning over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Complicating his tumultuous life is the...
60) Burden of dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 287
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career--Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera...
