see every Werner Herzog film

The library’s copy of Heart of Glass is lost but they won’t admit it. I really wish I could watch it.

Breathtaking cinematogrophy (sp? that doesn’t look right, but I am too lazy to spell check this morning!), haunting music, and an interesting and quirky array of characters who spend much of their time in the frozen Antartica make for a pretty impressive documentary about life at the end of the earth. I have such high expectations for Herzog films, though, that I was just ever so slightly disappointed. I got a bit bored at a few spots. Some of the scientific stuff was over my head. All in all, a good solid effort. 7/10

The man has a huge filmography but here is my current small dent in it…

All the Klaus Kinski’s including My Best Fiend.
Herakles.
Even Dwarwf’s Started Small.
Fata Morgana.
Heart of Glass.
La Soufriere.
Lessons of Darkness
Little Deiter Needs to Fly
Stroszek
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Great Ectasy of the Woodcarver Steiner
The Wild Blue Yonder
Wheel of Time
Ballad of the Little Soldier
Grizzly Man

Related that I’ve seen:
Incident at Loch Ness
Burden of Dreams
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe.

Pretty good, not my favorite, but good none the less. How did anyone ever work with Kinski?? I am glad Herzog managed since those are some of my all-time favorite movies.

Just finished watching Little Dieter Needs To Fly. Very excellent. Lists of Bests says I have watched 62% of his films.

My VCR broke, but if it hadn’t, I know I would have been able to watch at least a few more films.

Finished watching the short films La Soufriere, How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck and The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner.

I found that this really awesome movie store near school has a bunch of the older films, including Herkales. I’m going to scrape up $25 for a month’s membership and go crazy sometime.

Remaining:
* Rescue Dawn
* Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet – (Ten Thousand Years Older)
* Pilgrimage
* Invincible
* Wings of Hope
* Little Dieter Needs to Fly
* Bells from the Deep
* Lessons of Darkness
* Scream of Stone
* Echoes From a Somber Empire
* The Dark Glow of the Mountains
* Nosferatu the Vampyre
* No One Will Play with Me
* Heart of Glass
* Fata Morgana
* Precautions Against Fanatics
* Signs of Life
* The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
* Last Words
* Game in The Sand
* Herakles

This is so slow going! I’m pretty much at the mercy of what the library has in their catalog, which isn’t a whole lot.

Updated:

• Rescue Dawn
• The Wild Blue Yonder
• Grizzly Man
• The White Diamond
• Wheel of Time
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet – (Ten Thousand Years Older)
• Pilgrimage
• Invincible
• Wings of Hope
• My Best Fiend
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly
• Bells from the Deep
• Lessons of Darkness
• Scream of Stone
• Echoes From a Somber Empire
• Cobra Verde
• Where the Green Ants Dream
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains
• Fitzcarraldo
• Woyzeck
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• La Soufrière
• Stroszek
• How much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
• No One Will Play with Me
• Heart of Glass
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
• The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
• Aguirre, The Wrath of God
• Fata Morgana
• Land of Silence and Darkness
• Even Dwarfs Started Small
• Precautions Against Fanatics
• Signs of Life
• The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
• Last Words
• Game in The Sand
• Herakles

All of the sudden, this has gotten really hard to do. I love Herzog, but some of his new stuff is nothing compared to his old. I have Wild Blue Yonder and Incident at Loch Ness waiting for me to watch them, but they’re both awful compared to Land of Silence and Darkness and Where the Green Ants Dream.

This isn’t to say all his newer stuff is bad. I loved Wheel of Time. It’s just when he tries to meld his abilities at both story-driven films and documentaries that I don’t care for.

A few more down…

• Rescue Dawn
• The Wild Blue Yonder
• Grizzly Man
• The White Diamond
• Wheel of Time
• Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet – (Ten Thousand Years Older)
• Pilgrimage
• Invincible
• Wings of Hope
• My Best Fiend
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly
• Bells from the Deep
• Lessons of Darkness
• Scream of Stone
• Echoes From a Somber Empire
• Cobra Verde
• Where the Green Ants Dream
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains
• Fitzcarraldo
• Woyzeck
• Nosferatu the Vampyre
• La Soufrière
• Stroszek
• How much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
• No One Will Play with Me
• Heart of Glass
• The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
• The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
• Aguirre, The Wrath of God
• Fata Morgana
• Land of Silence and Darkness
• Even Dwarfs Started Small
• Precautions Against Fanatics
• Signs of Life
• The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
• Last Words
• Game in The Sand
• Herakles