Werner Herzog Film Appearances

Interview with Werner Herzog during his visit to the Indiana University Cinema.

Linas Phillips pays tribute to Werner Herzog in his pledge to walk from Seattle, Washington to Herzog's Los Angeles home.

An old painter recounts the story of when he met a strange mountain climber, or perhaps, an explorer from another world.

A documentary portrait of the filmmaker Harmony Korine during the production of his third feature film, Mister Lonely (2007). Shot on location in Scotland, Paris, and Panama, each chapter presents the production process and the causal, day-to-day absurdities of the actor/impersonators featured in Mister Lonely. Throughout the process, as Harmony reveals his thoughts on the film he also reveals a part of himself.

With extraordinary access, BLAST exposes a world of risky, hardcore, scientific adventure. The story follows an international team of astrophysicists trying to launch a multi-million dollar telescope on a NASA high-altitude balloon. Their journey to discover thousands of early galaxies takes them from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Revealing frustrations, inevitable failures and ultimate triumph, BLAST puts a human face on the quest to answer our most basic question - How did we get here?

Werner Herzog talks about making 'On Death Row' and life as a director.

A journey through history

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard Courant was invited by the Dubai International Film Festival, in the United Arab Emirates. It was an opportunity for him to film many "Cinematons" of personalities from the Arab world and to continue his "Film Notebooks" from which he brought back 7 episodes.

A fake "Cinematon".

Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past few months sifting through material stored at the now-defunct Rice Media Center. The team has identified several films as especially notable and will be presenting them in conjunction with documentary footage the team shot of people involved with the films. From lectures featuring Roberto Rossellini and Werner Herzog to films from former Rice students and faculty, the film presentation will tell the narrative of the Rice Media Center through the films and filmmakers that passed through its corridors.

Q & A with Jana Sevcikova and Werner Herzog.

The Making of 'My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done'.

The heart of the legs.

Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

Werner Herzog visited Beijing.

Legendary film director Werner Herzog brings together five shepherds and singers from the island of Sardinia in a Paris studio with a Senegalese singer and a Dutch cellist to create the music for one of his films.

本纪录片取材于野生动物保护主义者蒂莫西·崔德威尔（Timothy Treadwell）1999～2003年在美国阿拉斯加州卡特迈国家公园及自然保护区所拍摄的素材。崔德威尔从1989年起致力于野生灰熊的研究和保护，并与朋友成立了“熊人协会”，每年夏天来到卡特迈独自野营，观察记录灰熊的生活习性，并义务对数千名学童进行讲解，呼吁社会打击偷猎，关注、保护灰熊。导演沃纳·赫尔佐格（Werner Herzog）探访了崔德威尔的父母和前女友，并对2003年10月崔德威尔及女友艾米·胡格纳德（Amie Huguenard） 之死的细节进行了细致采访描绘，试图在展示崔德威尔非凡经历的同时，回答究竟是什么使他选择远离人类放逐荒野，将生命献给灰熊。 　　本片获圣丹斯电影节纪录片评审团大奖提名及艾尔弗·斯隆奖，并获2005年独立精神奖、洛杉矶影评人协会、纽约影评人协会、美国国家影评人协会等多个协会的最佳纪录片奖。

这部纪录片真实再现了德国电影大师沃纳·赫尔佐格（Werner Herzog）用近五年的时间在秘鲁亚马逊热带丛林中艰难拍摄完成震撼世界的名片《陆上行舟》（Fitzcarraldo）的过程。本片记录了这段电影人寻找梦想的过程，但这绝不是一部现今发行电影DVD时几乎必附的幕后花絮纪录片，他没有对影片吹嘘拍马只是忠实纪录影片拍摄时面对的众多不可思议的困难日子以及一个为了电影近乎疯狂的导演。
《陆上行舟》根据真实事件改编，爱尔兰人Fitzcarraldo酷爱歌剧，他想在热带雨林之中建造一个歌剧院然后请意大利男高音卡鲁索（Caruso）来演唱，为了凑到足够的金钱他买下来一块橡胶田做起橡胶生意，为了往来运输他必须弄一条船到雨林之中，在当地印第安土著帮忙之下，他终于把船从一条运河跨山而过运到了另一条河上。就在他兴奋无比之时，却不知土著有自己的打算，他们把船抛弃在河流之中让他顺流而下以献给河神，Fitzcarraldo的梦想最终破灭。他请了一个三流歌剧团来雨林表演以此完事。Fitzcarraldo的梦想没有实现赫尔措格却被之打动，他认为这种坚持梦想的行为本事就是伟大的成功，将之搬上屏幕成了赫尔佐格的梦想，却不知这是一个折磨了他五年带给他痛苦与快乐的梦想。
在赫尔佐格的坚持下，影片在秘鲁内陆的雨林实地拍摄，拍摄之初便卷入了当地土著部落的权利之争，而在丛林中还有军营、石油公司各种势力，拍摄所需物资全部空运至搭建的营地。影片缓慢的拍摄。五周后，就在影片完成40%的时候，影片主演Jason Robards因病退出剧组，饰演Fitzcarraldo伙伴Wilbur的滚石乐队（Rolling Stone）主唱Mick Jagger则投身新专辑发行和巡演。影片陷入遥遥无期的停机状态。
半年之后，赫尔佐格找来Klaus Kinski饰演Fitzcarraldo，摄制组再次进入雨林。影片拍摄过程中最大的矛盾出现了。在现实中，Fitzcarraldo将船拆散运过山坡后在另一头进行组装。赫尔措格却执意要将比现实中大得多船整个越过山坡，他认为这能将电影的主题形像化，给人视觉冲击。剧组请来的巴西工程师设计了一套复杂的装置供印第安临时演员们进行搬运，但即使是工程师也不相信这个装置可以搬运那个大家伙。赫尔措格已经听不进任何劝阻，执意实景拍摄。工程师因此退出摄制组留下“只有30%成功机会，如果失败还会有人会死”的话。 赫尔措格最终失败，30吨的船只移动了半米左右就退回了远处。此时另一艘用于拍摄的船则搁浅在浅滩之上，影片再次停机。
赫尔佐格面对采访的摄影机开始抱怨诅咒这片雨林，又掩饰不了对这原始之地的爱以及对自己梦想的执着。又过了几个月，影片中最重要的“陆上行舟”镜头终于拍摄成功，影片顺利完成。此片为赫尔佐格赢得了1982年戛纳最佳导演奖，成为他最重要的作品之一。
本片导演Les Blank对这片丛林充满崇敬之情，对其原始状态的消失而悲哀，片中的影像常常游离于摄制组之外，丛林中的蚂蚁、橡胶树、土著制作独特食物的过程、有着可口可乐标志的茅草屋、土著身上的米老鼠T恤、部落之间的争端、双凤求凰的争吵莫不忠实纪录下来。使本片具有独特的纪念价值，片中一句“专家计算，这些土著部落在2008年的时候都消失殆尽。”在当时看来还有遥远的26年，可现在再看，也只有短短的三年时间了。时间让纪录的影像残酷无比。
赫尔佐格在影片中说：“在别人看来我是在做白日梦，但是我一定要做到它，我不想做一个没有梦想的人，这样的生命没有意义。”他用自己的经历和自己的电影告诉人们，拥有梦想的人无论成功与否，都拥有骄傲而又伟大的灵魂。梦想会有负累，因为负累我们才去梦想。

A documentary on the history of garlic. Blank interviews chefs, garlic lovers, and historians about the their love of the 'stinking rose.'
Often referred to as a stinking rose, garlic, in its culinary uses, generally evokes a love it or hate it response. Quite often, these responses are on cultural lines, where old world cultures have generally revered it in their cooking, while new world cultures have not. A renaissance of sorts is taking place in the use of garlic in the United States, with more and more immigrants bringing their use of the spice to the country, with more people desiring more spice in their food, with a desire to get back to the land and with the production of plant a large part of the Central California landscape. Many chefs are presented preparing dishes prominently featuring the spice. On the bad side, the association of garlic to bad breath is discussed. On the other side, its purported health benefits are also discussed. Other topics presented include its association to vampirism, and speculation of how people will want their garlic to be presented to them in the future.

赌城拉斯维加斯的一家著名赌场，近日决定举办一场奖金高达一千万美元的牌术比赛，此消息一经传出便轰动全美赌坛，来自全国各地的赌术高手纷纷摩拳擦掌、聚集到此地，意图一决高下。
前来参加比赛的赌坛巨匠们不仅赌术上个个身手不凡，个性方面也千奇百怪，其中有以宰牲为乐的赌坛名将"德国佬"(沃纳·赫尔佐格饰)，身为五个孩子的母亲的职业牌手蕾恩(切瑞尔·海尼斯饰)，同为职业牌手、为与妹妹蕾恩比拼赌术而特来参赛的拉里(大卫·克罗斯饰)，有着轻微精神问题和严重自闭症、但却被公认为数学天才的哈罗德(克利斯·帕内尔饰)，因夺得一场在线牌局的冠军而获得此次比赛的入场卷、其实对真实牌局一窍不通的安迪(理查德·凯德)，还有从祖父继承来大名鼎鼎的"兔脚赌场"、现在却因大量负债而不得不亲自参加比赛的赌场老板"独眼龙"杰克(伍迪·哈里森饰)...各路高手齐聚赌场，个个对一千万美元虎视眈眈，在这场势均力敌的终极较量中，不仅牌局本身精彩纷呈，高手们言语之间的暗中较量也火花四射、笑料迭出，终究大奖花落谁家，还要看最后一场终极牌局的结果。