Werner Herzog

Los Angeles Watches Itself: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week:

Into the Abyss Review

Werner Herzog checks in after the murders, before the death penalty

The AFI Films You Need to See

Our critics' recommendations for the best of the fest

OKA! Review

Sarah Palin & Captial Punishment in New Films By Broomfield and Herzog in Toronto

Werner Herzog​ Friday was Foreign-Born Documentary All-Stars Tackle Powerful Symbols of America day at TIFF. The scarily prolific Werner Herzog (whose first foray into 3D, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, premiered at this festival last year before its blockbuster theatrical run this summer) is back ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Independence Day = aliens

Werner Herzog Takes Pity on Confused Hipster at Hollywood Cemetery Screening Q&A

cinemastrikesback.comWerner Herzog has seen worse.​The Saturday-night screening of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery was attended by special guest Werner Herzog, to the delight of a few hundred wine-drunk hipsters on picnic blankets. (Toto was there too, in spiri ... More >>

Movies This Weekend: Prom, Lin, Turner, Werner, Rosenthal and Ruffalo

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor find A Place in the Sun at TCM Festival. ​ A busy weekend around Los Angeles with the TCM Classic Film Festival, Asian Pacific Film Festival, UCLA Film and Television Archive's Patricio Guzmán retrospective and a slew of new theatrical releases, includin ... More >>

Werner Herzog, Crazy-Man Film Director, Thinks L.A. Is The Only City in America With Substance

Werner Herzog.​City Hall has more red ink than Nicolas Cage, the Dodgers are a mess, and our pothole-pocked, traffic-clogged roads are really the worst in America. But make no mistake, we love L.A. No town like it, from the Chinese delicacies of the SGV to the surfing inadequacies of Venic ... More >>

Cave of Forgotten Dreams Review

Next Time, We're Bringing a Flask: Werner Herzog, Nite Jewel, White Magic at Natural History Museum

Charles MallisonNite Jewel ​When we dream of gods speaking, they all sound like Werner Herzog. Revelations granted by viewing Cave of Forgotten Dreams and the following Q&A on Saturday night at the Natural History Museum only made this man seem more like an immortal: Herzog has shot on every c ... More >>

Booze with Werner Fucking Herzog, Dinosaurs, and a Bunch of Bands for Free

​The young and the sexy writhing out their witch house tunes for skeletons of extinct species! Forbidden French photographs hidden inside a giant "experiential installation"! Werner fucking Herzog live and in person presenting a 3D documentary about the origins of the modern human! Tomorrow ni ... More >>

Werner Herzog at Cinefamily

Early documentaries by the great filmmaker

Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams

The original art, in 3-D

Les Blank Cooks Beef Hearts and Guinea Pigs (Probably) for Cinefamily Screening

Flower FilmsLes Blank, the foodie's documentarian​The foodie's documentarian, Les Blank, director of "Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers," "All in this Tea," and "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe," which, though only 20 minutes long, is quite possibly the most perfect union of food and film ever capt ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Wooster Group's "North Atlantic"

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSECHO CHAMBERS Resonances from The Wooster Group's North Atlantic​Ground Control to Major Tom Photo by Paula Court If you drive through the San Gabriel Mountains, where radio reception is already dodgy, set ... More >>

What Would Herzog Do? Party at the Downtown Indie!

What Would Herzog Do? Party at the Downtown Indie!

Movie Reviews: Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Iron Cross, The Young Victoria

Also, The Lightkeepers, My Son, My Son What Have Ye Done and more

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Crescent City as breeding ground for Nicolas Cage's maniac cop

Cooking With Werner: Werner Herzog and Jim Jarmusch Make A Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Ever wonder what it would be like if the Food Network or PBS or whomever gave a cooking show to somebody completely unlikely? Not Bobby Flay or Mario Batali or even Brian Boitano (yes, this month), but Werner Herzog? Imagine the German filmmaker, director of Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu (and writer of ... More >>

Over the Weekend: L.A.'s New Entrepreneurs at Twiistup 6, Epic Tales with Werner Herzog, Jennifer the Leopard at REDCAT

Is it just us or did July feel like the longest month ever? (Check our "July '09 Month in Photos" slideshow for a recap.) From Comic-Con to unforgettable concerts to Marilyn Manson's death threats to hospital stays, July was one for the books. Fatigue aside, we restocked our instant espresso stash a ... More >>

Last Night: Werner Herzog Signs His Fitzcarraldo Diaries at Book Soup

Saturday, a sunny afternoon in August on the Sunset Strip -- before the cruisers started to prowl, when you could still get lucky finding parking on a block that isn't permit only -- was a good time for the cineaste crowd to converge on Book Soup as filmmaker Werner Herzog made an appearance this we ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Haunting in Connecticut, Three Monkeys, 12 Rounds

Also, The Education of Charlie Banks and Spinning Into Butter

If I Had a Hammer

GO LA: Lewis Black, German Cinema, Sheryl Crow for the Congo, and more

Where to go in L.A., February 13-19

Dwarves + Teenage Ingrates = Great German Cinema

Philippe Petit and James Marsh: Men on Wire

Standing on top of the world with the director and subject of a remarkable new documentary

Movie Reviews: Encounters at the End of the World, Finding Amanda, Wanted

Also, The Unknown Woman, Expired and more

Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine's Way

The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson

Best Escape Vittles

Snake, gator and other edible critters at Charlie Brown Farms

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Rescue Dawn: Air America

Herzog comes not to bury, but to praise

Christian Bale and the Art of Extreme Acting

What won’t the best actor of his generation do for a role? Not much.

Up Your You Tubes

“Overlooked and Underrated” reminds us why we love the American Cinematheque

Must See Art

Infinity Squared

Good Night and Good Luck

A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

Good Night, and Good Luck

A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

Project Grizzly

Where the Wild Things Are

Loonies unbound in Grizzly Man and Asylum

The Wrath of Werner

Germany’s expat enfant terrible on grizzly bears, the dream of flight and the folly by which man tries to conquer nature

The Ultra Critic

Hollywood Boulevard gives Roger Ebert a very enthusiastic thumbs-up

Earth Daze

Prose for the planet

Tales from the Vienna ’hood

Dog Days and the New Austrian Cinema

Also Opening This Week

The Coffee Table

Dames, dice and dope: holiday gift books revisited

The Year in Film

Power Trips

Dreaming of dictators in Invincible and Das Experiment

From Requiem to Rave...

...and back again, in Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People

Blood Brothers

Werner Herzog resurrects Klaus Kinski