Daniel Radcliffe has become an increasingly popular figure in indie cinema, his Harry Potter cachet allowing directors to secure funding for their weirdest pet projects. How else to explain last year’s excellent Swiss Army Man, in which his reanimated corpse farted its way through a movie that baffled and amused those brave enough to stump up for a ticket?
It doesn’t look like the actor is in for an easier time of it in Greg McLean’s (Wolf Creek) survival horror film Jungle, which has just had its first trailer released. Based on the book by Yossi Ginsberg, which chronicles the author’s real-life survival story when he was stranded in the Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981, the movie promises to be an intense thriller in which Radcliffe must contend with the might of Mother Nature.
At the opening of the trailer, backpacker Radcliffe is asked whether...
It doesn’t look like the actor is in for an easier time of it in Greg McLean’s (Wolf Creek) survival horror film Jungle, which has just had its first trailer released. Based on the book by Yossi Ginsberg, which chronicles the author’s real-life survival story when he was stranded in the Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981, the movie promises to be an intense thriller in which Radcliffe must contend with the might of Mother Nature.
At the opening of the trailer, backpacker Radcliffe is asked whether...
- 3/29/2017
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Herzog: Ecstatic Truths, a retrospective dedicated to Werner Herzog's documentary work, will be running on Mubi in the United States from March 31 - May 20, 2016. It will be followed by Herzog: Ecstatic Fictions, devoted to the director's fictional features.“The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor." In white letters sharply defined against a black screen, Blaise Pascal’s famous quote fittingly opens Lessons of Darkness (1992), Werner Herzog’s spectacular documentary about ecological disaster and the Gulf War. I say fittingly because the quote is fake (it was fabricated by Herzog to direct his audience to engage on a very “high level” before the movie even properly begins) and because Lessons of Darkness, for all its profundity, isn’t exactly a true documentary, either. It is, however, exemplary of Herzog's nonfiction style.Werner Herzog’s fame has been focused on his feature-length fiction films since...
- 3/31/2016
- by Ben Simington
- MUBI
Herzog's films portray humans as frail creatures caught in the gap between an indifferent nature and a punishing God. Ahead of the UK release of As Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing, which Herzog executive produced, Michael Newton celebrates a unique world view
For a man whose "social network" is his kitchen table, Werner Herzog's image is very present on the internet. You can see him (deceptively edited) discoursing in doom-laden tones concerning the "enormity of the stupidity" of hipsters or Republicans. (Originally he was discussing chickens.) He's there (or rather someone impersonating him is) intoning about the dark intensities of "Where's Waldo". (The clip has had more than a million hits on YouTube.) And, most notably, he can be seen in Les Blank's short film (this time for real) eating his shoe to celebrate the successful completion of Errol Morris's Gates of Heaven (1978). While the shoe boils,...
For a man whose "social network" is his kitchen table, Werner Herzog's image is very present on the internet. You can see him (deceptively edited) discoursing in doom-laden tones concerning the "enormity of the stupidity" of hipsters or Republicans. (Originally he was discussing chickens.) He's there (or rather someone impersonating him is) intoning about the dark intensities of "Where's Waldo". (The clip has had more than a million hits on YouTube.) And, most notably, he can be seen in Les Blank's short film (this time for real) eating his shoe to celebrate the successful completion of Errol Morris's Gates of Heaven (1978). While the shoe boils,...
- 6/1/2013
- by Michael Newton
- The Guardian - Film News
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