Werner Herzog: He has taken his camera to parts of the world no other director would dare to go and told stories in ways no one had ever even considered. These five masterpieces which blur the line between 'fiction' and 'documentary' illustrate why Werner Herzog is the most daring visionary and dangerous filmmaker of our lives. Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970): Featuring a cast composed entirely of little people (the first time that had been done since the 1938 western
After a seven year-old girl arrives in a new city, she has great difficulty finding friends, but she does find a star in the sky and a fantastic friendship begins between the two...
Sex is the ultimate weapon. Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer - arrogant caustic and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary maid and co-designer). Enter Karin a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in. The rest of the film deals with the emotions of this affair and its aftermath. Fassbinder tells his story in a series of 5 or 6 long scenes with extended uses of a single camera shot and deep focus.
After being released from prison Berlin street musician Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S.) finds himself lost in a world where he simply doesn't belong. So along with his prostitute girlfriend (Eva Mattes) and an eccentric neighbour (Clemens Scheitz) Stroszek moves to America where he's told everyone is rich. It doesn't take long however after moving into a mobile home and taking a job as a mechanic for Stroszek to realise that the streets of Railroad Flats Wisconsin aren't paved with
In Werner Herzog's brilliant adaptation of Georg Buchner's 'Woyzeck' Klaus Kinski delivers a wild and stunning performance in a role only he could play. Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless solider alone and powerless in society assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured both physically and psychologically by commanding officers doctors and his unfaithful wife Marie (Eva Mattes Best Supporting Actress at Cannes) Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his
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