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Posts Tagged Werner Herzog

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December 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Fingerprints, Forever Grabbing

Richard Pryor’s fingerprints… Brian Eno’s fingerprints… Janet Malcolm’s fingerprints… Werner Herzog’s fingerprints… These are the fingerprints all over my life, they tip-toe in a spider-walk down the spine of the books I read, down the spine of the documentary movies and all through my record collection and down across the comedy specials I listen to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Brian Eno, Fingerprints, Fingerprints Forever Grabbing, Forever Grabbing, Janet Malcolm, Poem, Poem: Fingerprints, Richard Pryor, 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”
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged “in the house of the hanged/They only speak of the rope”, 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, Blind Mans Bluff, Poem, Poem: Blind Mans Bluff, Werner Herzog ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Cease To Bee, Poem, Poem: Cease To Bee, 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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged DVD, DVD Review, Film Review, Human Highway, Madman, Michael Shannon, Movie Review, Neil Young, Salt and Fire, Salt and Fire: DVD, Veronica Ferres, Werner Herzog ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Streetcar Named Desire, All About Eve, All About My Mother, Apocalypse Now, Australia, Barry Gifford, Bill & Ted, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Burden of Dreams, Cafe Meow, Carnivale, David Lynch, Eraserhead, Film, Film Review, Films, Fitzcarraldo, Five Albums I'm Loving Right Now, Five Films That Stay With Me, Five Films That Stay With Me: Jimmy Jones, George Carlin, Heart of Darkness, Hearts of Darkness, Inland Empire, Jimmy Jones, Jodorowsky, John Waters, Kika, Klaus Kinski, Lost Highway, Mick Jagger, Movie Review, Movies, Mulholland Drive, Santa Sangre, Sante Sangre, Special Guest, Sydney, Werner Herzog, Wild at Heart ·

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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) […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Animated, Benedict Cumberbatch, Film, Film Review, John Malkovich, Kids, Madagascar, Movie Review, Penguins of Madagascar, The LEGO Movie, Werner Herzog ·

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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, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Film, Film Review, Grizzly Man, Movie Review, Movies of My Life, Movies of My LIfe # 2, Phantom Billstickers, Richard Thompson, Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog ·

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