The famed director worries about the web’s inevitable demise, plus Daniel Radcliffe stars as an FBI agent infiltrating a white supremacy group and other films we recommend seeing.
The 73-year old director was in town for AFI Docs, where he was honored as the 2016 Guggenheim Honoree and screened his new documentary Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World.
And he’s coming to town.
Acclaimed Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, The Wind Rises, is not a cartoon for children, but a vision both beautiful and horrific on the promise and perils of art.
Tom Cruise reaches for action hero relevance, but is chewed up by Werner Herzog. Oh, the movie this could have been.
A 3D cave painting documentary leads off this week’s film picks, which also include a couple of silent film-related programs, international kids’ movies, and an appearance (tonight!) by artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel at the Hirshhorn.
Baby did a bad, bad thing: Lieutenant McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) during a reflective moment in the midst of his usual drinking, leching, and lying. It’s difficult to enter into Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans expecting a comedy. That’s despite a title more ridiculous and unwieldy than even a CSI spin-off would accept, and a trailer that features star Nicolas Cage waxing rhapsodic on his lucky crack pipe, and instructing some henchmen to…
No roads may lead to Antarctica, but all longitude lines do. It’s these lines that the continent’s few residents have followed, from wherever they started, to their shared terminus at the bottom of the planet, stepping, as one resident puts it, “off the edge of the map.” Werner Herzog has made a career out of films based on characters on the margins. Some are real, some are imagined, but nearly all of them are obsessives…
Is there anything new that can be added to the debate over the legality and morality of abortion at this point? Finding anyone without a pretty firm opinion is difficult enough. Finding fresh perspectives on an issue this divisive, studied, thought through, and argued over is even rarer. Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire, a documentary 17 years in the making, doesn’t necessarily present any new information. But it collects all those varying perspectives and passionate…
Chaos, hostility, and murder. The three items that Werner Herzog believes are the common denominators of the universe, according to the narration of his 2005 documentary, Grizzly Man. And the subject of his own obsession, expressed again and again in the choking jungles and obsessives heroes of his films. In Rescue Dawn, Herzog stabs at yet another heart of darkness, another soul driven to desperation in pursuit of a seemingly impossible goal. In this case,…
