Posts Tagged Werner Herzog

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June 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Salt and Fire: DVD

Salt and Fire Director: Werner Herzog Benaroya Pictures/Construction Film/Canana Films/Skellig Rock/Madman A comparison can be made between the film director Werner Herzog and the musician Neil Young. Both are prolific, headstrong, they both follow their own path – it’s paved with hits and misses; the best of their work is extraordinary, near-transcendent, the worst just […]

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February 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Five Films That Stay With Me: Jimmy Jones

Jimmy Jones is a landscape gardener, constructor, designer etc.  He arrived in Sydney 17 years ago via Dunedin, Nelson, Motueka and well NZ in general. He’s never written about music or played in a band but has been surrounded by music, musicians, engineers, producers, writers et al since he was a teenager. His brother Damian […]

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January 11, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Penguins of Madagascar: Film

Penguins of Madagascar Directors:  Eric Darnell/Simon J. Smith DreamWorks Animation/20th Century Fox The penguins – formerly of Madagascar and its sequels – now have their own movie, so scene-stealing were they. I gave up on the Madagascar franchise at the right time (I didn’t have kids then, there was no reason to stay, or return) […]

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May 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Movies of My Life # 2: Grizzly Man

Timothy Treadwell is one of the great flawed characters of cinema. But he is (or rather was) – and this is the best part – real; he was no creation – Treadwell was a real human and he filmed himself on a strange quest to become something other than a real human – extra-real, unreal, […]