The Observer met Werner Herzog in a hotel suite, 28 floors high, that overlooked the Hudson River–the site of the director’s first landing in New York City just short of 50 years ago.
The legendary German filmmaker grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and never saw a movie as a child–”I didn’t Read More
RESCUE DAWN
Running time 126 minutes
Written and directed by Werner Herzog
Starring Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies
From his adolescent debut in Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun to his dramatic weight loss as a human skeleton in The Machinist, Christian Bale has never eschewed risk or invited compromise. Playing Read More
The Eater: Daniel Gross
The Bet: “John Snow will have a replacement, and he may very well come from the corporate world. But if it’s an A-list Wall Street CEO, I’ll buy a copy of Dow 36,000 and eat the first chapter.”
The Meal: Paper soaked in balsamic vinaigrette
The Video: Read More
“It was like looking into an abyss,” said Werner Herzog of the footage left behind by Timothy Treadwell. “Human beings are always like an abyss.”
“But,” Mr. Herzog told The Transom, “that is how I knew it was potent material. Both the editor and I had given up smoking, but it was so astounding that Read More
