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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Clive Oppenheimer | Werner Herzog
Chris says: “Werner Herzog’s at it again and he’s brought back his co-director Clive Oppenheimer from INTO THE INFERNO along for the ride. The subject this time is meteorites, which takes the two across the globe, from Mecca to ultra-remote
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Ishii Yuichi | Mahiro Tanimoto | Miki Fujimaki | Takashi Nakatani
Diane says: “Werner Herzog is an odd duck, isn’t he? He comes upon an outré topic and treats it like no one else would. In FAMILY ROMANCE LLC (4 cats) Herzog takes off from a magazine story by a former
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Chris says: “An account of a treacherous film shoot, a deep dive into Aboriginal customs and some ancient animal feces–just another Herzog doc, better than his Gorbachev one, not as stirring as the volcano one. 3.5 cats“
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: André Singer | Werner Herzog
Chris says: “Herzog Meets Gorbachev should be a monumental summit, and although the director never downplays his admiration for his subject, the subject, for all he accomplished (and Herzog certainly makes the case for him as one of the most
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Dmitry Vasyukov | Werner Herzog
Jason says: “Werner Herzog is the name that will (and should) draw people to HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA, although it’s likely that the other credited director, Dmitry Vasyukov, actually spent more time in Siberia gathering footage. However
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Werner Herzog
Thom says: “This stunning documentary follows a Texas death row inmate up to & shortly after his execution. One of the points that comes across the best is that the film never questions the guilt of the inmate. Herzog has
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Jason says: “Pundits declaiming the use of 3D in recent years often act like it was gone for a generation between the mid-eighties and late-naughts, but that’s not really the case; it was used extensively for documentaries that played at
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif | Chloe Sevigny | Grace Zabriskie | Loretta Devine | Michael Peña | Michael Shannon | Willem Dafoe
Jason says: “The first two credits to appear on the screen in MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE are ‘David Lynch Presents’ and ‘A Film By Werner Herzog.’ If you recognize the names, you know that means there’s
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Rating: 4.8 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Brad Dourif | Eva Mendes | Fairuza Balk | Jennifer Coolidge | Nicolas Cage | Val Kilmer
Thom says: “This film was an absolute blast and Herzog definitely has the last laugh. For months now folks have been moaning and wailing on the Internet about the horrible crime Herzog was committing by ‘remaking’ the Abel Ferrara classic
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Bruce says: “Like Ozu and Rohmer, Werner Herzog tends to revisit the same themes. That is not to say he is making the same film over and over; he is compiling a body of work that is forged together thematically,
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