Werner Herzog

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Werner’s world

Herzog’s End justifies his means
The world is doomed, and Werner Herzog, for one, is happy about it.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

Pole sitter

Interview: Werner Herzog ponders the end of the world
Speaking to the legendary German filmmaker is like speaking to God.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

Mister Lonely

Weird meets revelatory unsuccessfully
Harmony Korine aspires to the weird and revelatory but too often achieves the merely creepy.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 07, 2008

The Independent Film Festival of Boston fights for freedom of the screens
The IFFB is determined to wrest cinematic freedom from the imperial power of the Hollywood studios.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 22, 2008

The Grand

Painfully funny poker fanatics
Having followed this band of winners and losers as they sort out their cards and their problems, you may just find yourself caring who wins in the final showdown.
By ELIZABETH FLOCK | April 02, 2008

Pleasures still unknown

Conventions take Control of Ian Curtis
Ian Curtis (Sam Riley) of the Manchester band Joy Division wrote songs that evoke, with incantatory inevitability, terror, delight, and ecstasy.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 24, 2007

War zones

Fall films face terror at home and abroad
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

Bull market

Flipping Out on Bravo, plus Celebrity Bull Riding Challenge and Meerkat Manor
Jeff Lewis is real, baby.
By JAMES PARKER | September 04, 2007

‘Bring us your worst . . . ’

The ‘Anti-Slam’ poets wax erotic
Mike brought his creation to a climax with high-pitched keening — part orgasm, part death knell — before swooning onto the stage.
By JACQUELINE HOUTON | August 22, 2007

Missing in action

History escapes Herzog in Rescue Dawn
In his 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs To Fly , Werner Herzog told the story of Dieter Dengler.
By CHRIS FUJIWARA | July 10, 2007

Spring loaded

Working out the kinks
It’s spring, and Hollywood has to get the kinks out of its system before it can focus on the business at hand: the sequels of summer.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 12, 2007

Devine DVDs

Film-smart gifts for people who think they’ve seen everything
Sure, we all know Get Smart! is out on DVD in time for the holidays, and the Superman films (all of them, going back to 1948), and Mission Impossible: The Ultimate Missions Collection , sure, sure, as if you could miss the bleating sirens of studio publicity.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | December 07, 2006

Seven heaven

Readers speak out on the best directors
Who are the world’s greatest living narrative filmmakers, what I call the Magnificent Seven?
By GERALD PEARY | April 28, 2006

Indie dependents

Family ties at the Independent Film Festival of Boston
Try as they might to be independent, filmmakers are still bound by family ties, the same as everyone else.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 19, 2006

Rock and roles

Scissorfight star in their greatest epic yet
Late March, 2005, Allston: Ironlung is in the parking lot of Mad Oak Studios, a large man stranded in the midafternoon, wearing flip-flops, standing in a desert of cigarette butts, asphalt, despair.
By JAMES PARKER | March 22, 2006