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Looking back: Werner Herzog on Putin and Russia - Roll Call

Werner Herzog had some interesting things to say about Russia and Vladimir Putin in this May 2019 Political Theater podcast.

Roll Call

Alexander Skarsgård: ‘There’s a politeness to Swedes. It’s a facade. Deep down we’re animals’

The actor talks about his new film, the explicit sci-fi horror Infinity Pool, why he gave up acting for eight years – and why he likes playing darker, more twisted characters

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m a film-maker because of him’: Herzog, Swinton, Rushdie and more on Tom Luddy, cinema’s quiet titan

Friends and film-makers including Errol Morris, Laurie Anderson and Adam Curtis on the brilliance of Telluride’s Tom Luddy, who has died aged 79

The Guardian - UK

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Telluride Film Festival co-founder Tom Luddy dies at 79

Tom Luddy, who co-founded the Telluride Film Festival as part of a long and varied career in the film industry, has died at age 79.

Los Angeles Times

'We are only passing through': stories about memory, mortality and the effort of being alive

Chris Flynn’s Here Be Leviathans is a collection of short stories that seems quirky and light-hearted, propelled by its creative use of perspective. Each story is established from a surprising vantage point and so the world as Flynn imagines it becomes topsy-turvy – anything at all might be alive and…

The Conversation

Review: 2 oddball comedies are back on TV after a long hiatus. Do they still work?

Once upon a time in the music business, it was normal for a band to put out two records a year. Then, as budgets went wild and groups wrote albums in the studio, they might‘ve started taking a year or two to deliver the next. Then, as schedules were filled…

Los Angeles Times

TV tonight: a magnificent, deadly obsession with erupting volcanoes

Werner Herzog’s documentary about two volcanologists drawn to the edge of the Japanese mountain that killed them. Plus Our Dementia Choir. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

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Neal Justin: Seth Meyers and his famous friends find time to keep making 'Documentary Now!'

"Documentary Now!," the series that specializes in highbrow parodies, returns with another impressive list of celebrity guests, including Cate Blanchett, Alexander Skarsgard, Jonathan Pryce and singer Tom Jones.

Tribune News Service

The Twilight World by Werner Herzog review – Japanese officer’s infinity war

The German film-maker’s partly fictionalised account of an imperial army soldier who refused to surrender until 1974 frustratingly fails to get inside its fascinating subject’s head

The Guardian - UK

Werner Herzog: ‘I was never, contrary to rumours, a hazard-seeking, crazy stuntman’

The German director, famed for making films about people at the fringes of society, has written a novel about another one: a Japanese soldier who carried on fighting the second world war for 29 years after it ended

The Guardian - UK

Fire of Love review – romantic portrait of passionate, doomed volcanologists

Documentary embraces the mythology around Maurice and Katia Krafft, the husband-and-wife scientists who died in the 1991 Mount Unzen disaster

The Guardian - UK

‘Heat’-Ing Up: Michael Mann Writes Sequel-Prequel ‘Heat 2’

Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself. He had so much left to say. “There’s always the sense of being shortchanged,” Mann said during a Zoom interview from his apartment in Modena,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

'Heat'-ing up: Michael Mann writes sequel-prequel 'Heat 2'

Decades after the release of Michael Mann’s “Heat,” the classic crime thriller has endured in the minds of fans, critics, peers and the director himself

The Independent UK

The Guide #44: Club closures leave the scene looking bleak – is there hope on the horizon?

In this week’s newsletter: As much-loved London venues like Printworks and Space 289 join the droves to close in recent years, the future of the purpose-built club is in jeopardy

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The Twilight World by Werner Herzog review – a film-maker’s eerie debut

Herzog draws on the extraordinary story of a real-life Japanese soldier who fought on for decades, unaware that the second world war was over

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