This lecture & screening series focuses on six nonfiction works spanning Werner Herzog’s iconoclastic career. We are delighted to welcome film critic and journalist Michael Fox, who will offer a short lecture before each film and lead the post-screening discussions.
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Werner Herzog’s very first film concept centered on a prison. Decades later, he reflects on a triple murder in a small Texas town through interviews with two men convicted of the killings. As he so often has, Herzog “probes the contradictions of the human heart, in which nobility and savagery are so entwined as to be almost indistinguishable” (A. O. Scott, New York Times).
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The film that “turned [Werner] Herzog’s distinctive Bavarian accent into a pop culture phenomenon” (IndieWire), Grizzly Man investigates the life and death of Timothy Treadwell, who lived with—and was killed by—bears. Herzog used and mused over Treadwell’s video footage for this memorable essay on nature, both human and wild.
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Werner Herzog's “requiem” for another pair who followed their passions: the globe-trotting husband and wife volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, who filmed hundreds of hours of astonishing footage of volcanoes. “This is a radical filmmaker acknowledging two kindred spirits. . . . Solemn, sparse, and hypnotic” (Film Stage).
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Werner Herzog accompanies a Vietnam War POW back to the jungles of Laos to relive his imprisonment and torture in this award-winning documentary.
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Werner Herzog’s 1971 documentary on the world of those who are both deaf and blind defies expectations; neither morbidly depressing nor heartwarmingly uplifting, it is “so intense and abstract that at times it reaches great lyrical heights” (New Yorker Films).
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A voyage to the end of the world—Antarctica—to discover the ecstatic realities of those who have chosen to live amidst nature’s awe-inspiring vastness. “A portrait of people in search of the sublime” (Cinema Scope).
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