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”

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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, […]