Newly restored for a theatrical run, the 1991 documentary about the production of ‘Apocalypse Now’ offers a fascinating ...

But Herzog's film offered up a considerably more sympathetic depiction of the vampire than in all prior adaptations of either Nosferatu or Bram Stoker's Dracula, presented here as a lonely, tragically ...

Likewise, Werner Herzog’s 1979 remake, also in German, of this classic also announces its fixation with death upfront— the opening credits of Nosferatu the Vampyre unfold against the mummified ...

Herzog said, "20th Century Fox was interested to finance and produce a film. But they wanted to produce it with a small, plastic replica of a ship in a jungle, a 'good' jungle.

But I swear to God, it's a performance." His greatest performance, though, is a love story: his own. Werner Herzog is a hopeless romantic. He fell for photographer Elena Pisetski in the late '90s.

More trenchantly, the voice is good but not 100% Werner, while the narrator figure we see almost always in longshot or from behind is never really a convincing stand-in.

The same could be said of Les Blank ’s 1982 documentary “Burden of Dreams,” except its central figure is Mr. Herzog himself—and his aspiration? Making “Fitzcarraldo.” ...

Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Orion in the Dark’ Movie Includes a Werner Herzog and Saul Bass Shout-Out For Film Nerds By Anna Menta Published Feb. 3, 2024, 9:00 a.m. ET 0 seconds of 59 secondsVolume 0% ...

Herzog was born Werner Stipetic in Munich in 1942. He was two weeks old when his mother and brothers relocated to Sachrang, in the Chiemgau Alps, after their home was destroyed by an Allied ...

A pioneering figure in the New German Cinema movement during the 1970s, Werner Herzog has since established himself as one of the world’s most recognizable and idiosyncratic filmmakers — known ...

The only reason Werner Herzog hasn’t yet made a film about the Ancient Mariner may be that, having already inadvertently incorporated so many elements of the poem into his own work, he has become him.