Werner Herzog

[wolfgirl]

What do you think are his trademarks and directing styles?

I know he includes chickens in many of his films (he has a fear of them, ironically), uses many long landscape shots, uses Klaus Kinski a lot and makes animals do strange things.
Marcel_Du_Rat on IMDb said "Human perspective: Very rarely does he use bird's eye, or worm's eye view, or odd angles - usually everything is very documentary style, as if you were standing there.
Images of moving in circles:
Aguirre - raft circling in the whirlpool, and circling around the raft at the end.
Strozcek/Dwarfs - cars running in circles.
Little Dieter - End shot circling over plane field."

What other styles have you noticed?

[Mike 9.3 Miles From Leigh]

The commentary on Fata Morgana reveals a lot of what Herzog is about and I liked it when he said that he's always trying to produce images that you haven't seen before. On that front he regularly succeeds.

Another common theme in his films is man's relationship to nature. All th films I've seen of his have been interesting.

[snowplowsteve]

Haven't seen any of his work, really need to.

But he shakes off being shot during an interview.

Fine with me.

[peterraul]

in his interviews he has said "mans relationship with nature" and i think there has always been an archetypal anti-hero in his films whom try to achieve beyond his potential and very often failing. This ranges from Fitzcaraldo to Grizzly Man


P.s. if anyone lets me know where to find "Even Dwarfs Started Small" or even rarer, "Spiel im Sand" let me know asap thx

[kenji]

well, he's obsessed with the obsessed and the extraordinary (places and people)

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[FSryan]

Originally Posted by wolfgirl

What do you think are his trademarks and directing styles?

I know he includes chickens in many of his films (he has a fear of them, ironically), uses many long landscape shots, uses Klaus Kinski a lot and makes animals do strange things.
Marcel_Du_Rat on IMDb said "Human perspective: Very rarely does he use bird's eye, or worm's eye view, or odd angles - usually everything is very documentary style, as if you were standing there.
Images of moving in circles:
Aguirre - raft circling in the whirlpool, and circling around the raft at the end.
Strozcek/Dwarfs - cars running in circles.
Little Dieter - End shot circling over plane field."

What other styles have you noticed?

Hey I'm working with Polsky films have you gotten a chance to check out the preview for Bad Lieutenant, Werner Herzogs new film, you can watch it here - http://badlt.com/