From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the quest...
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, whil...
2022年，德国新电影运动四杰之一的沃纳·赫尔佐格八十岁了，这部纪录片略有为他祝寿之意。影片不仅跟随赫尔佐格重返他的出生地、听他自述成长经历和电影之旅，还邀请到帕蒂·史密斯、克里斯蒂安·贝尔、维姆·文德斯、施隆多夫、赫尔佐格的两任妻子等各界人士来对他的作品和个性进行评价，同时穿插了赫尔佐格的经典作品片段和珍贵的幕后花絮（赫尔佐格吃鞋子、在现场拍摄前催眠演员等传说中的名场面），以及老当益壮的他开设训练营培养新人等内容，让观众全方位了解赫尔佐格这个激进梦想家如何通过艺术创作实践狂野梦想。
Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and feelings while considering the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of fast-advancing neural technology.
This essay explores Werner Herzog's films and how he uses the Power of Silence in his documentaries. I'm looking at Herzo films from throughout most of his career - the mid 70's until now.
It covers interviewing-technique and editing, both pacing and the overarching structure of scenes, and should be interesting for Herzog fans and documentarians especially.
The footage is from...
讲述了法国著名“火山夫妇”卡蒂亚和莫里斯的故事。卡蒂亚和莫里斯是火山学家，两人自幼爱上了火山，相同的志向与爱好让他们走到了一起。他们的一生致力于活火山研究，足迹遍及世界上所有的火山。1991年，两人登上了日本的云仙岳火山，葬身于突然爆发的火山之中。卡蒂亚和莫里斯留下了大量的录像档案，在抢救下来的影像资料中，可以看到即使在生命的最后一刻，他们还在做记录，播报着火山的喷发。
Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.
An intimate portrait of legendary, master filmmaker Werner Herzog at work on MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE, by that film's co-writer, HERBERT GOLDER, a close friend and long-time collaborator. Unlike other documentaries that have been made about Herzog, in which he stares almost defiantly into the camera and, in his inimitable way and in his famous voice, articulates his vi...
In this extensive review of the work of Werner Herzog, I examine the philosophy beneath his unique approach to filmmaking, and explore the significance of the many stories he brought home from faraway lands.
Sources:
Paul Cronin – Herzog on Herzog
Roger Ebert – A Letter to Werner Herzog
With the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union
本片是关于德国新电影领军人物之一、电影大师维姆·文德斯的纪录片，以其代表作品《德州巴黎》等经典段落为线索，全方位呈现了他近半个世纪的影路历程和拍摄理念。影片不仅让文德斯对镜自述，更邀请到科波拉、赫尔佐格、帕蒂·史密斯、威廉·达福等与之合作过的名人“现身说法”，做出褒贬不一的评价。导演还选用了一些鲜为人知的影像资料，向观众展示了文德斯不走寻常路的现场拍摄方式。该片荣获2020年瑞士玫瑰奖艺术奖，亦被推荐为德国“申奥”纪录片。
影片聚焦英国著名的旅行作家布鲁斯·查特文，他因感染艾滋病于1989年去世，而他的多年好友赫尔佐格在如今仍用该片表达了怀念。
影片以极为私人的笔触描绘两人多年的知己之情，查特文怀着对真相的热情，走到了世界的各个角落，而赫尔佐格也上路，去探访查特文一直着迷的东西——游牧生活，“那些狂野的角色、奇怪的梦想者，关于人类存在的本质的远大概念”。
沃纳·赫尔佐格将再度联手地球学家克里夫·奥芬海默拍摄纪录片[火球](Fireball，暂译)，聚焦陨星和彗星。奥芬海默曾现身2016年赫尔佐格自编自导的Netflix纪录片[进入地狱]，此次二人将共执导筒。英国制片公司Spring Films与赫尔佐格的制片公司Werner Herzog Filmproduktion联合制作。
