Posts Tagged Werner Herzog
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May 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Blind Mans Bluff
after it happens you can only think of what happened hope isn’t there at all or what’s there is so small but you hold on to it until the end in the end all that’s there is hope Werner Herzog says, “in the house of the hanged/They only speak of the rope”Archive
May 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Cease To Bee
A spider trapped a bee in its web and tied a silky thread around its head, it wound and wound and wound it tight in the dusty corner of the window – as we watched from the other side, the inside, all I could do was imagine Werner Herzog’s monologue: This bee has ceased to […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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) […]Archive
May 13, 2014 by Simon Sweetman