Werner Herzogs Cave videos and links

One of the most distinctive filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog has been called the "romantic visionary" of the New German Cinema movement. His edgy, larger-than-life films fuse the epic with the intimate, redefining the scale and scope of filmmaking to include more than 60 works shot on every continent. He appeared in conversation with acclaimed author and essayist, Pico Iyer at UC Santa Barbara on October 25, 2010. (download the video here)

A 10 minute fragment from a masterclass with Werner Herzog. For 7 Planete Doc Review, with Pamela Cohn with Michałem Chacińskim, 2010. Also see this video.

Film Studies For Free hopes its Werner Herzog-obsessive readers will have a few hours to spare. Theyll need them to watch the above embedded (and linked to) videos, some of the more recent, and most worthwhile of freely accessible online encounters with LAs most interesting resident filmmaker.

These videos, and the critical and scholarly reading below, will help time pass before the Spring 2011 premiere of Herzogs latest (3D) film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams (trailer, related video,  second related video). Dont say that FSFF isnt looking out for you, Herzog-ites!

Scholarly online writing about Herzog:

• Jesse Amato-Grill, Trappings, Mercer Street, 2007

• Matthias Wilhelm Benfey, Religious cinema as virtual religious experience : a theory of religious cinema applied to Werner Herzogs Herz aus Glas, PhD Thesis, McGill University, 1986 

• Adam Bingham, Images from the end of the world: Werner Herzogs La Soufrière, Senses of Cinema, September 2006

• Tom Bissell, The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the Images of Werner Herzog, Harpers Magazine, December 2006

• Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Of Gods and Grizzlies: The Non-Aesthetic of Nature and the new Kinship of Werner Herzog and Caspar David Friedrich, Senior Thesis, Bryn Mawr College, 2006 

• Buffalo Film Seminars - selected writings about Herzog (and, especially, Aguirre: Wrath of God)

• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, An Adaptation With Fangs: Herzogs Nosferatu, Kinoeye, Vol. 2, Issue 20, December 2002

• Alkan Chipperfield, Murmurs from a Shadowless Land: Fragmentary Reflections on the Cinema of Werner Herzog, Senses of Cinema, June 2001

• David Church, Werner Herzog, Senses of Cinema, June 2006

• David Church, Examining the Role of Disability in Herzogs Even Dwarves Started Small, Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 25, No 4 (2005)

• Roger Dawkins, Thoughts of Deleuze, Spinoza and the Cinema (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), Contretemps, 3 July 2002

• Eric Dewberry, Conceiving Grizzly Man through the "Powers of the False", Scope, Issue 11, June 2008

• Thomas Elsaesser, The Cinema of Irony, Monogram no. 5, 1973

• Thomas Elsaesser, Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-European Cinema as Third Cinema between Hollywood and Art Cinema, in European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood(Amsterdam University Press, 2005)

• Caryl Flynn, The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004 2004

• Andrew W. Hurley, Re-imagining Milirrpum v Nabalco in Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream, Paper delivered at PASSAGES: law, aesthetics, politics 13–14 July 2006 Melbourne Australia

• David T Johnson, "You Must Never Listen to This": Lessons on Sound, Cinema, and Mortality from Herzogs Grizzly Man, Film Criticism; Spring 2008, 32: 3

• Michael Koller, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• Joe Muszynski, A Legacy of Quality: Werner Herzogs Nosferatu and the New German Cinema

• Benjamin Noys, Antiphusis: Werner Herzogs Grizzly Man, Film-Philosophy, 11.3, November 2006

• Ingo Petzke, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• Cynthia Rockwell, Werner Herzog and the Documentary Film, e-Thesis, Boston University 1994

• Antonia Shanahan, My Best Fiend, Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• John W. White, On Werner Herzog’s Documentary Grizzly Man: Psychoanalysis, Nature, and Meaning, Fast capitalism, 4.1, 2008

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Werner Herzog Links inc YouTube Fest

Film Studies For Free wanted to let academic fans of Werner Herzog know that (certainly in the UK, but most probably elsewhere, too, if no geoblocking) they can currently watch eight of his films on YouTube in their glorious entirety. This is thanks to the video distributor Starzmedia, one of the companies participating in YouTubes growing efforts to stream full-length films with the support of the movie companies who own the rights. Below, FSFF has embedded the trailers of seven of the Herzog films that are currently available. Click on the titles to visit the YouTube pages for the full-length films, which can be watched freely online in relatively good quality versions (Even YouTube Screens Started Small...). (Click HERE for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser added later. The Starzmedia channel for Herzog is HERE).

And, if that werent enough excitement for one FSFF day, beneath the video-trailers, at the foot of this post, are some other choice links to freely available Herzog material online.

Aguirre The Wrath Of God

My Best Fiend

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Fitzcarraldo

Lessons Of Darkness

Woyzeck

Little Dieter Needs To Fly

Scholarly online writing about Herzog:

• Adam Bingham, Images from the end of the world: Werner Herzogs La Soufrière, Senses of Cinema, September 2006
• Tom Bissell, The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the Images of Werner Herzog, Harpers Magazine, December 2006
• Buffalo Film Seminars - selected writings about Herzog (and, especially, Aguirre: Wrath of God)
• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, An Adaptation With Fangs: Herzogs Nosferatu, Kinoeye, Vol. 2, Issue 20, December 2002
• Alkan Chipperfield, Murmurs from a Shadowless Land: Fragmentary Reflections on the Cinema of Werner Herzog, Senses of Cinema, June 2001
• David Church, Werner Herzog, Senses of Cinema, June 2006
• Roger Dawkins, Thoughts of Deleuze, Spinoza and the Cinema (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), Contretemps, 3 July 200
• Michael Koller, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Senses of Cinema, February 2002
• Joe Muszynski, A Legacy of Quality: Werner Herzogs Nosferatu and the New German Cinema
• Benjamin Noys, Antiphusis: Werner Herzogs Grizzly Man, Film-Philosophy, 11.3, November 2006
• Ingo Petzke, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Senses of Cinema, February 2002
• Cynthia Rockwell, Werner Herzog and the Documentary Film, e-Thesis, Boston University 1994
• Antonia Shanahan, My Best Fiend, Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• Herzogs Official Website is HERE
• Ray Pride gathered a load of great Herzog paraphernalia/paratextuality a couple of years back at Movie City Pride (videos/articles/interviews) and you can access it HERE (link courtesy of GreenCine Daily, April 4 2007). Link added April 21
  
• And you can listen to a great interview with Herzog HERE, by Jonathan Demme, courtesy of Pinewood Dialogues
  

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