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Where do you stand on the directing talent of Werner Herzog?

Anytime he makes a movie, there’s a good chance it’ll be a masterpiece.
17 (53.1%)
A Great Director who's still able to deliver something fresh.
10 (31.3%)
Uneven, but well worth watching.
2 (6.3%)
I'm interested if the reviews are good.
2 (6.3%)
The legend is interesting, not his direction.
0 (0%)
I don't understand what everyone sees in his filmmaking.
0 (0%)
I haven't seen enough of his work, but I hope to.
1 (3.1%)

Total Members Voted: 32

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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #10 on: July 03, 2008, 01:55:26 PM »
he is definitely in my top 3 of directors working today
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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2008, 02:29:36 PM »
With the passing of Ingmar Bergman, I actually think Werner Herzog is now the greatest living director, so I would say any movie he makes could be a masterpiece. That said, I think he's far from infallible (as Cobra Verde and the ending of Rescue Dawn are evidence of).
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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2008, 04:16:35 PM »
Can Michael Bay do that without visual effects?

can he do anything?

  back off the Bay - he has his place.

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  I only know Herzog because of here - everything I've seen has been amazing.
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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2008, 04:30:35 PM »
With the passing of Ingmar Bergman, I actually think Werner Herzog is now the greatest living director...

Godard is not dead yet :P

I would say any movie he makes could be a masterpiece. That said, I think he's far from infallible (as Cobra Verde and the ending of Rescue Dawn are evidence of).

Agreed and agreed (though I wouldn't use Cobra Verde or Rescue Dawn as examples... more something like Invincible)
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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2008, 05:31:24 PM »
And when did Godard make a film worth watching?

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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2008, 05:43:23 PM »
I assume you mean when did he LAST make a movie worth watching, which was probably 2004's Notre musique, his most recent theatrical film.
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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #16 on: July 03, 2008, 11:31:16 PM »
I don't like him...I LOVE HIM.

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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2010, 04:26:10 AM »
A Great director.

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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2010, 01:17:25 AM »
1. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
2. Even Dwarfs Started Small
3. La Soufriere
4. Grizzly Man
5. Cobra Verde
6. Signs of Life
7. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
8. Encounters at the End of the World
9. The White Diamond
10. Invincible
11. Lessons of Darkness
12. Fitzcarraldo
13. Ballad of a Little Soldier
14. Bells from the Deep
15. Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun

16. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
17. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
18. Nosferatu the Vampyre
19. Echoes from a Somber Empire
20. Stroszek
21. Land of Silence and Darkness

22. God's Angry Man
23. The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
24. Little Dieter Needs to Fly
25. My Best Fiend
26. Heart of Glass
27. Wheel of Time
28. Where the Green Ants Dream
29. The Dark Glow of the Mountains
30. Rescue Dawn

31. The Wild Blue Yonder
32. How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
33. Fata Morgana
34. Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices
35. Portrait Werner Herzog
36. Woyzeck
37. Scream of Stone
38. Precautions Against Fanatics
39. The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz

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Re: The Top Directors Working Today: Werner Herzog
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2011, 08:44:27 PM »
Egads, Teller, you're giving me Werner Envy.

10. INVINCIBLE
09. WOYZECK
08. COBRA VERDE
07. AGUIRRE
06. GRIZZLY MAN
05. RESCUE DAWN
04. BAD LIEUTENANT: PoCNO
03. MY BEST FIEND: KLAUS KINSKI
02. LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY
01. FITZCARRALDO