Werner Herzog

A Melodramatic Varnish in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Germany emerging through the 1970s was imbued in polemic discourse concerned with the issues surrounding German identity politics. The issues around American influences within Germany’s social and political spheres proved more convoluted igniting these discourses that would be thoroughly engaged with and explored by the New German Cinema movement. This engagement proved the enigmatic approach encompassing American influences, one that Germüden…

It is routine and expected from the students, they are not rebelling but meeting the expectations set for them. The student’s conformity to these expectations only feeds further categorization of the students as a group outside of mainline French culture. Within the walls the students are monolithically believed to be incapable of reading ‘real’ French texts, like Voltaire. Outside of the walls — outside the systemic dictates— one student is capable of reading and digesting Plato’s Republic.…

were they painted? We will never truly know the stories that happened inside this cave. The vanished human history cannot be retrieved. However the main goal of researchers is to suggest and create theories about what could have happened there. (Werner Herzog 2010). Another dilemma is that even though scientists have determined an age for these paintings, it is an approximate number, which also means we will never know the exact age of these prehistoric arts. The Chauvet Cave and many other…

The film Cave of Forgotten Dreams takes the viewer inside the lost cave presently known as the Chauvet Cave of Southern France. Once inside the filmmaker Werner Herzog captures the pictures of the oldest paintings of humankind in their natural setting among the walls of this long lost subterranean area. As a result, a group of scientist discovered this cave in 1994 , and it was given the name Chauvet Cave after one of the members of the three person party. After entering the small opening to…

Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God created an accurate portrayal of Lope de Aguirre’s quest for El Dorado in 1561. Using a firsthand account from Aguirre himself, Herzog is able to accurately show what happened. Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a 1972 German film written and directed by Werner Herzog. The plot focuses on a group of conquistadors who are in search of the legendary city of El Dorado. The main protagonist is a Spanish soldier named Lope de Aguirre who, along with others, is…

the main issue here. All things considered, life needs to go ahead after such traumatic occasions and I think Herzog is essentially demonstrating the effect of one's actions and what life will resemble attempting to move past it. The stories are all to a great degree well-told and generally the film is entirely perfect from a specialized angle. In case one is acquainted with the work of Herzog then you'll realize that a considerable measure of times amid his documentaries he's on screen…

Forgotten Dreams is one of the oldest caves of all time. In fact, it is determined that the cave existed for about 30,000-33,000 years (Herzog, 2010). In 1994, a small group of French scientist lead by Jean-Marie Chauvet discovered the cave, and when the French government realized how precious it was, they shut off the access to it (Herzog, 2010). However, Werner Herzog a documentary filmmaker got permission to access the cave. He believed that the Chauvet Cave contains most of the oldest human…

Grizzly Men and The Grizzly Man An analysis of two Werner Herzog documentaries By Leon Kavanagh 16/11/14 Year 3 Film & Television Production Word count: Herzog’s immense gift for coaxing such human performances from his subjects is undeniably present in his documentary features. There is no tabloid longevity, but true beatification of the human spirit to triumph and over come the minutest of odds. Growing up in a worn torn Munich, Herzog moved to the remote Bavarian village of…

A Werner Herzog documentary of the “Wodaabe: Herdsman of the Sun”, presents the audience with a fascinating yet perplexing point of view of the Wodaabe tribe. Throughout the film, the director displays the hardship that many people suffered due to the four-year drought; the struggle and mindset that many people, wished for a better life. Then, the film goes back to the Wodaabe tribe getting ready for the Gerewol festival. The film intended audience had to be someone with an open minded,…

New York Times review of Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu, Vincent Canby said: “in the filmography of Werner Herzog…‘Nosferatu, the Vampyre’ looks to be a kind of charming diversion…it’s something less than the voyage of self-discovery that each of Mr. Herzog’s earlier, very original films has been…[Dracula is] not some profoundly complex character.” With all due respect to Vincent Canby, I completely and fundamentally disagree. On the one hand, I can see Canby’s angle—Herzog had already built up…