Werner Herzog
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On Herzog's Memoirs January 13, 2025
The audiobook of Werner Herzog’s new memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2023), is 13 hours, 42 minutes, and 41 seconds long. The listener might be pleased, as I was, to hear the filmmaker personally narrate it, milking every word like...
Werner Herzog on Memory November 27, 2024
One thing is clear from the get-go: Werner Herzog, the enigmatic German icon of all things Art, likes for things to be precise. He makes sure I know this within the first minutes of our meeting. He is in Paris for48 hours for the release of the Frenc...
A Jolt from the Slumber of the Self August 26, 2024
Throughout his long career in film, director Werner Herzog has escaped aesthetic categorization. In his more than 70 films, Herzog consistently looks outward, examining people, animals, and distant places. In his new memoir, Every Man for Himself and...
A Jolt from the Slumber of the Self August 08, 2024
Throughout his long career in film, director Werner Herzog has escaped aesthetic categorization. In his more than 70 films, Herzog consistently looks outward, examining people, animals, and distant places. In his new memoir, Every Man for Himself and...
The Wrath of God June 13, 2024
The quest is not going well. A band of 16th-century Spanish conquistadors are barreling deeper into the unexplored jungle, hell-bent on discovering El Dorado, the lost city of gold. The dense foliage and mountainous landscape are arduous to traverse;...
Mystic Without a Church March 28, 2024
Werner Herzog has lately turned to literature. He has always been a writer—his first books were published in the 1970s—but his writing was always part of some larger project. Only recently has he started to produce books that are meant to stand on th...
