Baby Yoda fanatic Werner Herzog had an eventful 2006. He directed Rescue Dawn, his highest-grossing movie in America; was shot at during an interview with BBC; and saved Joaquin Phoenix from a car ...

Joaquin Phoenix is one of the greatest actors on the planet these days, but things could have been vastly different for the Joker star if it wasn’t for the intervention of Werner Herzog.

Joaquin Phoenix has plenty of reason to celebrate ... And in an only-in-Hollywood twist, German director Werner Herzog was one of the first responders who helped Phoenix out of the wreck.

Joaquin Phoenix checked into rehab after director Werner Herzog highlighted his reckless ways following a near-death car crash. “I wasn’t engaging with the world or myself in the way I wanted to,” he ...

Years before Joaquin Phoenix may or may not have lost his damn mind , he got into a car accident in Hollywood and the German director Werner Herzog came to his rescue . Of the strange turn of ...

Werner Herzog is at a booth in a Sunset Boulevard restaurant, just down the hill from where he once rescued Joaquin Phoenix. The rescue happened 11 years ago when the freshly Oscar-nominated ...

Coinciding with today’s DVD release of Werner Herzog‘s “My Son ... depicting the time that the German filmmaker saved Joaquin Phoenix from an accident when the actor-turned-“I’m Still ...

Werner Herzog has been making films for 50 ... Reacher”), and his presence in inexplicable encounters (pulling Joaquin Phoenix from a car wreck in Los Angeles, being shot with a BB gun while ...

In the more than 50 years since his first feature film, the director Werner Herzog has come to ... When you pulled Joaquin Phoenix from a car accident, did you know it was him?

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL: A Memoir, by Werner Herzog ... and check for his or her wallet. I rescued Joaquin Phoenix, who had happened to crash on the highway right in front ...

But then Werner Herzog was never like any other filmmaker. I mean, this is the guy who pulled Joaquin Phoenix from a car wreck. And this is the man who — for a long time, but especially recently ...

“None of my characters are extreme nor strange,” Werner Herzog said ... in his book “Of Walking in Ice.” He pulled Joaquin Phoenix out of a car crash in Los Angeles.