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Tag: Werner Herzog
‘Family Romance, LLC‘ is at once weird, funny, bittersweet and frustrating. It is also a strange detour for German filmmaker Werner Herzog who has been directing narration-heavy documentaries as of late. While…
It’s fascinating to witness the slow ‘domestication’ of (supposedly) feral kids, brought up with limited or no access to human world; nurtured by nature. Maybe, because at some level they represent the…
Here are the 10 films that made it to the 6th edition of our ‘HOF-Men Recommend’ Series. You can check out previous editions at the end of this post.
Werner Herzog’s “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World” explores the grim, weird and the fundamentally positive side of man-made marvel – internet. The veteran film-maker’s keen perspective and the absence of moralistic hand-wringing stop it from being just another documentary about the digital world.
Where the Green Ants Dream is considered a somewhat dud, released in the wake of Herzog’s highly regarded German masterpieces, but I believe it’s certainly in need of a revival, as it is nowhere near the disaster critics claimed it was upon release and it never has quite accumulated the sort of new-found appreciation it always deserved. It should be held in high esteem close to that of Herzog’s German films, as it is one of the more socio-politically significant films to be made in Australia, and (despite some flaws in its presentation) a rather entertaining, spectacular, and amusing one to boot.