December 10
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Murnau, Lang, and then Murnau
Ray 2022-04-19 09:02:41
Herzog Retrospective, Centre Pompidou. In a perfect capital system, how can we insist on ourselves, not to mention, the film itself is a product of industrial capital. This documentary was invited and funded by the Discovery Channel, a film about the people of the continent that currently hosts the fewest humans. Herzog uses prose to complete this assignment (monologues, narrations, comments, and direct communication with the subject, so that the film is full of subjective antecedent colors), which is generally quite satisfactory, but this film After it was completed, the Discovery Channel refused to broadcast it on the pretext of being too artistic, so the film had to be converted to a big screen and screened in a small area, but it also won a lot of audiences and word of mouth. Notify Lao He can be broadcast on Discovery Channels around the world. Herzog reluctantly recounted this episode in the exchange meeting at the end of the screening. Today, the auditorium of the Pompidou No. 1 is full, and everyone seems to be looking forward to Herzog's re-creation of the "shoe-eating" legend. A French grandmother asked, "When we mention German directors, three names immediately come to our mind, Fassbender, you and Wenders. What do you think of the other two?" Speaking of German directors, Murnau, Lang, and then Murnau immediately appeared in his mind. In fact, I don't particularly like this documentary, and I'm looking forward to Saturday's "Damn".
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Encounters at the End of the World quotes
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Werner Herzog: It occurred to me that in the time that we spent with him in the greenhouse possibly three or four languages have died. In our efforts to preserve endangered species we seem to overlook something equally important. To me, it's a sign of a deeply disturbed civilization, where tree-huggers and whale-huggers in their weirdness are acceptable, while no one embraces the last speakers of a language.
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Werner Herzog: For me, the best description of hunger is the description of bread. A poet said that once I think. For me, the best description of freedom is what you have in front of you. You're travelling a lot.