Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Werner Herzog's Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin is exclusively showing in the United States starting February 7, 2021.When Werner Herzog met Bruce Chatwin, legend has it the two spent forty-eight hours telling stories to each other. “For every one I told him,” Herzog remembers, “he would tell me three. We would sleep for a couple of hours, then wake up and carry on.” The year was 1984, the place Melbourne. Hot on the heels of Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog had travelled to Australia to shoot Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), while Chatwin, by then already a literary icon, was working on his fourth book, The Songlines (1987). His first, In Patagonia (1977) had sent the Englishman on a journey to the ends of the world to uncover the mystery behind a piece of “brontosaurs skin.” It had changed travel writing forever, concocting...
- 2/8/2021
- MUBI
Mubi the premier streaming service for curated independent films, has revealed its lineup for February. Among the eclectic selection of films coming exclusively to Mubi are “Dead Pigs”, the bold directorial debut by Birds of Prey director Cathy Yan and Pietro Marcello’s “Martin Eden”, a compelling adaptation of Jack London’s novel, starring Luca Marinelli. Mubi will also exclusively present Beginning, the striking feature debut by Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili, which has been selected as Georgia’s official selection for the 93rd Academy Awards, and Werner Herzog’s deeply personal documentary “Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin” featuring his late friend and travel writer Bruce Chatwin.
In February, Mubi is proud to partner with Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program to spotlight a collection of films made by Sundance Institute Fellows. Reflecting the support given to independent storytelling by artists of Indigenous descent, this special selection includes films such...
In February, Mubi is proud to partner with Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program to spotlight a collection of films made by Sundance Institute Fellows. Reflecting the support given to independent storytelling by artists of Indigenous descent, this special selection includes films such...
- 1/31/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
by Glenn Dunks
Is it a coincidence that I watched Werner Herzog’s Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin on the same day as Nomadland? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Maybe it was more just serendipitous that I turned my screener of Herzog’s film off just before leaving the house to go and see Chloé Zhao’s Oscar favourite. Maybe I am just feeling emotional about the very idea of being out in nature and enmeshed in a broader human existence, but both left me quite affected.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this double feature left me with the desire to walk home under the glowing blue sky with earth and tar and grass and cement under my feet...
Is it a coincidence that I watched Werner Herzog’s Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin on the same day as Nomadland? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Maybe it was more just serendipitous that I turned my screener of Herzog’s film off just before leaving the house to go and see Chloé Zhao’s Oscar favourite. Maybe I am just feeling emotional about the very idea of being out in nature and enmeshed in a broader human existence, but both left me quite affected.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this double feature left me with the desire to walk home under the glowing blue sky with earth and tar and grass and cement under my feet...
- 12/30/2020
- by Glenn Dunks
- FilmExperience
Werner Herzog, that enigmatic monument to cinema, announces early on in his newest film that it won’t be a normal one. Nomad is divided into eight distinct, non-linear chapters all centered around the subject of Bruce Chatwin, an English adventurer and writer with whom Herzog maintained a unique relationship until the former’s untimely death of AIDS […]
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- 11/16/2020
- by Harrison Whitaker
- Uinterview
In the middle of delivering an anecdote about how he and Bruce Chatwin once got caught in a mountain storm with no equipment and had to survive by lying in holes in the ice for two days, Werner Herzog stops, blushes slightly and says "I'm not the protagonist here." It's as if he's just become aware of something that the rest of us have seen in his work for decades.
All the great observers of human nature begin with the self, simply because it's easiest to access. Though this is probably Herzog's most personal film, the frequency with which he includes clips of others he has made in the past acts as a reminder that these are all stops along the same route. Bruce Chatwin - traveller, storyteller, adventurer - was a friend of his and also a man with whom he seems to have been linked through their serendipitous attraction.
All the great observers of human nature begin with the self, simply because it's easiest to access. Though this is probably Herzog's most personal film, the frequency with which he includes clips of others he has made in the past acts as a reminder that these are all stops along the same route. Bruce Chatwin - traveller, storyteller, adventurer - was a friend of his and also a man with whom he seems to have been linked through their serendipitous attraction.
- 10/26/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Apple announced Friday that it will release a new Werner Herzog documentary, “Fireball,” on its Apple TV+ platform. The film explores how shooting stars, meteorites, and deep impacts on Earth have shaped human mythology and focused our attention on other realms and worlds.
“Fireball” will mark the third collaboration between the legendary director and geoscientist Clive Oppenheimer, who is co-directing the doc.
Oppenheimer, a professor of volcanology at the University of Cambridge, appeared in Herzog’s 2007 Antarctica-set Oscar-nominated “Encounters at the End of the World,” and again in Netflix’s 2016 doc “Into the Inferno.” That most recent film earned an Emmy nomination and followed the pair as they traveled the world to explore various volcanic sites. Much like “Fireball,” that film also drew connections between natural phenomena and its impact on humankind.
“Fireball” will also reunite Herzog with “Inferno” producers André Singer and Lucki Stipetić. Werner Herzog Film is producing alongside Spring Films,...
“Fireball” will mark the third collaboration between the legendary director and geoscientist Clive Oppenheimer, who is co-directing the doc.
Oppenheimer, a professor of volcanology at the University of Cambridge, appeared in Herzog’s 2007 Antarctica-set Oscar-nominated “Encounters at the End of the World,” and again in Netflix’s 2016 doc “Into the Inferno.” That most recent film earned an Emmy nomination and followed the pair as they traveled the world to explore various volcanic sites. Much like “Fireball,” that film also drew connections between natural phenomena and its impact on humankind.
“Fireball” will also reunite Herzog with “Inferno” producers André Singer and Lucki Stipetić. Werner Herzog Film is producing alongside Spring Films,...
- 7/24/2020
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Even if filmmaker Werner Herzog sat in his home all day, every day, without any sort of social interaction, the man would still have one of the most interesting lives imaginable, based solely on the films he’s created. But the director doesn’t stay indoors. Sometimes, he goes outside and saves Oscar-winning actors, such as Joaquin Phoenix, from blowing themselves up after a car accident.
Read More: ‘Nomad’ Trailer: Werner Herzog Highlights The Work Of His Friend, Bruce Chatwin, In A New Doc
In a new interview with The New York Times, Herzog is reminded of a story about when, years ago, he found Joaquin Phoenix in a wrecked car on the side of the road.
Continue reading Werner Herzog Stopped Joaquin Phoenix From Lighting A Cigarette While Trapped Upside Down After A Car Accident at The Playlist.
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In a new interview with The New York Times, Herzog is reminded of a story about when, years ago, he found Joaquin Phoenix in a wrecked car on the side of the road.
Continue reading Werner Herzog Stopped Joaquin Phoenix From Lighting A Cigarette While Trapped Upside Down After A Car Accident at The Playlist.
- 3/23/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
From the heart-wrenching exploration of Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man, whose real-life adoration of the titular creatures would portend his own death, to exploring the forgotten paintings and rituals of the stone age in transcendent 3-D in Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog is a nomad himself in the documentary field. For his latest non-fiction, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, he’s turning the camera to his late friend. Music Box Films has now unveiled a new trailer for his new documentary, scheduled to be released in select cinemas April 8.
An official selection at Tribeca, Herzog tackles the personal subject of the life of his friend Bruce Chatwin, travel writer, explorer, novelist, and journalist. To honor his friend’s legacy, he embarks on the same journey Chatwin made–featuring Patagonia, the Black Mountains in Wales, and the outback of Australia– and it is of course narrated by the...
An official selection at Tribeca, Herzog tackles the personal subject of the life of his friend Bruce Chatwin, travel writer, explorer, novelist, and journalist. To honor his friend’s legacy, he embarks on the same journey Chatwin made–featuring Patagonia, the Black Mountains in Wales, and the outback of Australia– and it is of course narrated by the...
- 3/5/2020
- by Margaret Rasberry
- The Film Stage
"It's in the landscape... landscape of his soul." Music Box Films has released the official trailer for Werner Herzog's latest documentary film, called Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin. This originally premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year, and went on to play at the Telluride Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Vancouver Film Festival. When travel writer Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Now thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin's passion for the nomadic life. His deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, featuring archival discoveries, clips, and a mound of "brontosaurus skin," encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal / tribal cultures, ancient rituals, and the mysteries stitching together life on earth. I'm usually always interested in watching Herzog's documentaries, no matter what they are about.
- 3/4/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
With today’s studios doing whatever it takes to make a billion dollars, film fans sometimes look past the idea that cinema is an artistic medium, first and foremost. And when you look at animated features, given massive franchises like “Toy Story” and “Frozen,” it’s really easy to be cynical and chalk up animated films as cash grabs aimed at taking money from families. But we have to remember that animated films, in particular, can be the most artistic cinema of them all, as seen in the classic film “Son of the White Mare.”
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To simply explain the premise of “Son of the White Mare” is almost missing the point of the film.
Continue reading ‘Son Of The White Mare’ Exclusive Trailer: The Psychedelic Film Arrives In March With A New 4K Restoration at The Playlist.
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To simply explain the premise of “Son of the White Mare” is almost missing the point of the film.
Continue reading ‘Son Of The White Mare’ Exclusive Trailer: The Psychedelic Film Arrives In March With A New 4K Restoration at The Playlist.
- 3/2/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
The summer movie season is around the corner and first out of the gate as far as indie films are concerned will be a new comedy from “Late Night” director Nisha Ganatra. “The Hight Note,” formerly titled “Covers,” is a music business-set comedy that turns the beloved Tracee Ellis Ross into a music superstar and indie darling Dakota Johnson into a personal assistant with dreams of making it big in the Los Angeles music scene. The supporting cast includes “Waves” and “Luce” breakout Kelvin Harrison Jr., playing opposite Ice Cube, Zoe Chao, Eddie Izzard, Bill Pullman, and Diplo.
Focus Features’ official synopsis for “The High Note” reads: “Set in the dazzling world of the La music scene comes the story of Grace Davis (Ross), a superstar whose talent, and ego, have reached unbelievable heights. Maggie (Johnson) is Grace’s overworked personal assistant who’s stuck running errands, but still aspires...
Focus Features’ official synopsis for “The High Note” reads: “Set in the dazzling world of the La music scene comes the story of Grace Davis (Ross), a superstar whose talent, and ego, have reached unbelievable heights. Maggie (Johnson) is Grace’s overworked personal assistant who’s stuck running errands, but still aspires...
- 2/28/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Werner Herzog is a rare filmmaker. Even when you take away the actual content of his films, which also set him apart from many other auteurs, Herzog is also a unique filmmaker in the way that he freely goes from the realms of narrative fiction and documentary depending on the project. If you look at his filmography, the director has almost a 50/50 split between the number of narrative features and documentaries. And for his latest film, “Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin,” the filmmaker not only ventures back into documentary territory but actually turns the camera on himself.
Continue reading ‘Nomad’ Trailer: Werner Herzog Highlights The Work Of His Friend, Bruce Chatwin, In A New Doc at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Nomad’ Trailer: Werner Herzog Highlights The Work Of His Friend, Bruce Chatwin, In A New Doc at The Playlist.
- 2/27/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Werner Herzog’s ‘Nomad’ Trailer: Auteur’s Latest Film Follows Life of ‘Kindred Spirit’ Bruce Chatwin
For his latest cinematic adventure, iconoclastic auteur Werner Herzog is tackling a subject close to his heart: his bond with travel writer Bruce Chatwin, who passed away in 1989 after privately fighting HIV for five years. The pair were already long-time friends at that point, but even decades after Chatwin’s death, Herzog’s affection and respect for the fellow artist remains deep. Chatwin is still considered one of the UK’s best loved authors, and his work, including seminal books like “The Songlines” and “In Patagonia,” has long been credited with helping to revive the once-staid genre of travel writing.
Per the film’s official synopsis: “Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries,...
Per the film’s official synopsis: “Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all corners of the globe. Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries,...
- 2/27/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
This summer, Jordan Peele’s much-anticipated fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend, “Candyman,” will be unleashed on theater screens nationwide, under the direction of rising filmmaker Nia DaCosta (“Little Woods”). This contemporary incarnation of the cult classic is a direct sequel to the original 1992 film, which starred Tony Todd as the title character. Todd returns for this latest update.
Universal’s official synopsis for the film reads: “In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials. With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman.
Universal’s official synopsis for the film reads: “In present day, a decade after the last of the Cabrini towers were torn down, visual artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and his girlfriend, gallery director Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris), move into a luxury loft condo in Cabrini, now gentrified beyond recognition and inhabited by upwardly mobile millennials. With Anthony’s painting career on the brink of stalling, a chance encounter with a Cabrini Green old-timer (Colman Domingo) exposes Anthony to the tragically horrific nature of the true story behind Candyman.
- 2/27/2020
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Pablo Larraín’s (Jackie) Venice Film Festival drama Ema, starring newcomer Mariana Di Girolamo, Gael García Bernal (Mozart In The Jungle), and Santiago Cabrera (Big Little Lies).
Music Box plans to theatrically release the Sundance-bound drama in summer 2020. The deal was negotiated by Music Box President William Schopf and CAA Media Finance.
Ema charts a woman’s odyssey of personal liberation after a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer.
“I feel proud and excited to be working again with Music Box Films, a wonderful company for a movie like Ema in the USA,” said feted Chilean director Larraín. “It’s truly amazing.” The distributor previously released the director’s 2015 film The Club.
“This is one of those films that you have to see to believe,” added Music Box Films’ President William Schopf. “Entirely singular,...
Music Box plans to theatrically release the Sundance-bound drama in summer 2020. The deal was negotiated by Music Box President William Schopf and CAA Media Finance.
Ema charts a woman’s odyssey of personal liberation after a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer.
“I feel proud and excited to be working again with Music Box Films, a wonderful company for a movie like Ema in the USA,” said feted Chilean director Larraín. “It’s truly amazing.” The distributor previously released the director’s 2015 film The Club.
“This is one of those films that you have to see to believe,” added Music Box Films’ President William Schopf. “Entirely singular,...
- 12/10/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The event running 15-24 November will open with Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin by Werner Herzog and close with Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela. Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, the new documentary by Werner Herzog, is set to open the 2019 edition of the Filmmaker Festival on 15 November. Running until 24 November in Milan, the event will host 99 titles in total, including 31 out-and-out premieres, 3 European premieres and 26 Italian premieres. The closing slot is entrusted to Vitalina Varela by Portugal’s Pedro Costa, the winner of the 2019 Golden Leopard award at Locarno, where it also scooped the prize for Best Actress. The International Competition will this year consist of 9 films. French director Marie Losier is making her return to Milan armed with Felix in Wonderland, the latest chapter in her collection of eccentric artist portraits,...
- 11/13/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
In today’s film news roundup, Dean Devlin raises funds, Jason Cassidy gets a promotion and Music Box buys Werner Herzog’s documentary about Bruce Chatwin.
Financing
Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has closed a $60 million syndicated corporate credit facility.
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey is serving as the sole lead arranger and SunTrust Bank is the administrative agent.
The access to the funds in this facility will initially be used to finance the third season of “The Outpost” on The CW along with the first season of “Almost Paradise” that will air on Wgn America in early spring of 2020. The recent acquisition of the international sales rights for the FilmRise library will also contribute to Electric’s continued growth of its worldwide sales and distribution arm.
Promotion
Focus Features marketing president Jason Cassidy has been promoted to the post of vice chairman.
Peter Kujawski will continue as chairman and Robert Walak remains president of Focus,...
Financing
Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has closed a $60 million syndicated corporate credit facility.
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey is serving as the sole lead arranger and SunTrust Bank is the administrative agent.
The access to the funds in this facility will initially be used to finance the third season of “The Outpost” on The CW along with the first season of “Almost Paradise” that will air on Wgn America in early spring of 2020. The recent acquisition of the international sales rights for the FilmRise library will also contribute to Electric’s continued growth of its worldwide sales and distribution arm.
Promotion
Focus Features marketing president Jason Cassidy has been promoted to the post of vice chairman.
Peter Kujawski will continue as chairman and Robert Walak remains president of Focus,...
- 11/7/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Music Box Films has acquired U.S. rights to Werner Herzog’s Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, the filmmaker’s latest documentary the bowed earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival and later played Telluride. A spring 2020 theatrical release is planned.
When famed In Patagonia writer and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was dying in 1989, he gave Herzog the rucksack he’d carried on his travels around the world. Thirty years later, Herzog carries the rucksack on his own epic journey, inspired by their shared passion for the nomadic life, making and documenting his discoveries and the characters he met along the way.
Music Box Films previously distributed Dmitry Vasyukov and Herzog’s 2013 documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.
The Nomad deal was negotiated by Music Box president William Schopf and Sideways Films’ Kazz Basma.
When famed In Patagonia writer and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was dying in 1989, he gave Herzog the rucksack he’d carried on his travels around the world. Thirty years later, Herzog carries the rucksack on his own epic journey, inspired by their shared passion for the nomadic life, making and documenting his discoveries and the characters he met along the way.
Music Box Films previously distributed Dmitry Vasyukov and Herzog’s 2013 documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.
The Nomad deal was negotiated by Music Box president William Schopf and Sideways Films’ Kazz Basma.
- 11/6/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Werner Herzog’s feature documentary “Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin,” which world premiered at Tribeca and played at Telluride, has been picked up for the U.S. by Music Box Films.
“Nomad” takes the viewer on a journey through the creative and personal vision Herzog shared with iconic travel writer and adventurer Bruce Chatwin, the author of “In Patagonia,” who championed a nomadic lifestyle.
Music Box Films, which also distributed Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog’s 2013 documentary “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga,” is planning to release the documentary theatrically in select cities next spring, followed by a rollout on home entertainment platforms.
In the film, Herzog discovers stories of dinosaurs, lost tribes, aboriginal traditions, wanderers and dreamers, traveling from Patagonia to the Black Mountains of Wales and the Australian outback.
“We are delighted to be working with Music Box Films for the U.S. distribution of...
“Nomad” takes the viewer on a journey through the creative and personal vision Herzog shared with iconic travel writer and adventurer Bruce Chatwin, the author of “In Patagonia,” who championed a nomadic lifestyle.
Music Box Films, which also distributed Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog’s 2013 documentary “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga,” is planning to release the documentary theatrically in select cities next spring, followed by a rollout on home entertainment platforms.
In the film, Herzog discovers stories of dinosaurs, lost tribes, aboriginal traditions, wanderers and dreamers, traveling from Patagonia to the Black Mountains of Wales and the Australian outback.
“We are delighted to be working with Music Box Films for the U.S. distribution of...
- 11/5/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Rome Film Festival (October 17-27) has unveiled its 2019 official selection, which includes Downton Abbey, Waves, Judy, The Aeronauts, Hustlers and Werner Herzog documentary Nomad[/link] about writer Bruce Chatwin.
A total of 33 films and documentaries will play in the official lineup (full list below). As previously announced, the fest will open with Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will have a centerpiece screening. Only two Italian movies are included in the main selection.
The festival also revealed a pre-opening October 16 world premiere for John Turturro’s anticipated The Big Lebowski spinoff, The Jesus Rolls, which follows Lebowski character Jesus Quintana.
The impressive lineup of onstage interviews includes Bill Murray and Viola Davis – both of whom will receive lifetime achievement awards – Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Ethan Coen, Benicio Del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Ron Howard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Norton, Bertrand Tavernier, John Travolta and Jia Zhangke.
A total of 33 films and documentaries will play in the official lineup (full list below). As previously announced, the fest will open with Edward Norton’s Motherless Brooklyn while Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will have a centerpiece screening. Only two Italian movies are included in the main selection.
The festival also revealed a pre-opening October 16 world premiere for John Turturro’s anticipated The Big Lebowski spinoff, The Jesus Rolls, which follows Lebowski character Jesus Quintana.
The impressive lineup of onstage interviews includes Bill Murray and Viola Davis – both of whom will receive lifetime achievement awards – Fanny Ardant, Olivier Assayas, Ethan Coen, Benicio Del Toro, Bret Easton Ellis, Ron Howard, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Edward Norton, Bertrand Tavernier, John Travolta and Jia Zhangke.
- 10/4/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Werner Herzog’s latest documentary, a tribute to writer Bruce Chatwin, will air in Britain on the BBC, which commissioned the film for its long-running documentary series “Arena,” the pubcaster announced Tuesday.
“Nomad – In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin” is scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. In the U.K., the feature-length documentary will air on BBC Two later this year as part of the broadcaster’s “Arena” strand.
Written, directed and narrated by Herzog, “Nomad” explores the creative and personal vision he shared with his friend Chatwin, the travel writer and adventurer.
Shortly before his death in 1989, Chatwin summoned Herzog with a request to see his television documentary “Herdsmen of the Sun,” about tribesmen of the Sahara. In exchange, Chatwin gave the German filmmaker the rucksack he had carried with him on his travels around the world. Thirty years later, “Nomad” sees...
“Nomad – In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin” is scheduled to have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28. In the U.K., the feature-length documentary will air on BBC Two later this year as part of the broadcaster’s “Arena” strand.
Written, directed and narrated by Herzog, “Nomad” explores the creative and personal vision he shared with his friend Chatwin, the travel writer and adventurer.
Shortly before his death in 1989, Chatwin summoned Herzog with a request to see his television documentary “Herdsmen of the Sun,” about tribesmen of the Sahara. In exchange, Chatwin gave the German filmmaker the rucksack he had carried with him on his travels around the world. Thirty years later, “Nomad” sees...
- 4/9/2019
- by Robert Mitchell
- Variety Film + TV
Werner Herzog never really stops working. The German auteur has been making the festival rounds with “Meeting Gorbachev,” his feature-length sit-down with the former Soviet politician that the filmmaker co-directed with André Singer. But by the time the movie premiered at Telluride over Labor Day weekend ahead of its screenings in Toronto, Herzog had already wrapped production on two new projects, and he has a big acting gig on the horizon.
At Tiff, the director told IndieWire that he would soon act in “a big franchise film, about which I’m not supposed to say anything,” he said. “I can only say the title. The code name is ‘Huckleberry.’” He chuckled. “For god’s sake, that’s only a cover,” he said.
Herzog declined to offer further details, but the role would mark the first time he has appeared in a studio production since 2012’s Tom Cruise action vehicle “Jack Reacher,...
At Tiff, the director told IndieWire that he would soon act in “a big franchise film, about which I’m not supposed to say anything,” he said. “I can only say the title. The code name is ‘Huckleberry.’” He chuckled. “For god’s sake, that’s only a cover,” he said.
Herzog declined to offer further details, but the role would mark the first time he has appeared in a studio production since 2012’s Tom Cruise action vehicle “Jack Reacher,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Scott Glenn has been acting for 48 years, and anyone who’s going to share the screen with him better be prepared.
“When I hear an actor say, ‘I don’t want to rehearse this too many times because I want to keep it fresh,’ well, excuse my French, but that just tells me they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” Glenn said to IndieWire. “There is no such thing as too much rehearsal. When Daniel Day-Lewis told Steven Spielberg he needed a year for ‘Lincoln,’ I understand that.”
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But no amount of time could have prepared Glenn for what happened when he tried out a new acting technique during an episode of “The Leftovers” — not a two-and-a-half month heads up from Damon Lindelof; not receiving the script three weeks before he even left for Australia; not a...
“When I hear an actor say, ‘I don’t want to rehearse this too many times because I want to keep it fresh,’ well, excuse my French, but that just tells me they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” Glenn said to IndieWire. “There is no such thing as too much rehearsal. When Daniel Day-Lewis told Steven Spielberg he needed a year for ‘Lincoln,’ I understand that.”
Read More: ‘The Leftovers’ Review: Season 3, Episode 3, ‘Crazy Whitefella Thinking’
But no amount of time could have prepared Glenn for what happened when he tried out a new acting technique during an episode of “The Leftovers” — not a two-and-a-half month heads up from Damon Lindelof; not receiving the script three weeks before he even left for Australia; not a...
- 5/1/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Interview has posted Bruce Chatwin's 1988 profile of Werner Herzog, who, the year before, had adapted Chatwin's novel The Viceroy of Ouidah as Cobra Verde. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Color in the earliest days of cinema, Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) on Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Sundance-winner Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Grady Hendrix on Kim Jee-Woon, interviews with Joe Dante and Patrick Brice, a Jon Moritsugu retrospective, and forthcoming films from Jane Campion, Hana Makhmalbaf, Mark Cousins and more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/18/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Interview has posted Bruce Chatwin's 1988 profile of Werner Herzog, who, the year before, had adapted Chatwin's novel The Viceroy of Ouidah as Cobra Verde. Also in today's roundup of news and views: Color in the earliest days of cinema, Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) on Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Sundance-winner Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Grady Hendrix on Kim Jee-Woon, interviews with Joe Dante and Patrick Brice, a Jon Moritsugu retrospective, and forthcoming films from Jane Campion, Hana Makhmalbaf, Mark Cousins and more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/18/2015
- Keyframe
Dutch director was best known for The Vanishing and River Phoenix’s last film, Dark Blood.
George Sluizer, the Dutch director best known for The Vanishing and Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s last film, died in Amsterdam on Saturday (Sept 20) following a long illness, according to Dutch media. He was 82.
“Sluizer had been ill for a long time. In 2007 he barely survived a ruptured artery and after that his health remained fragile,” according to Dutch public broadcaster Nos, quoting relatives.
The director, producer and screenwriter was born in Paris, where he attended the Idhec film academy.
He made his first film in 1961, Hold Back the Sea, a documentary that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Up until the early 1980s, Sluizer produced and directed many documentaries and TV specials. He also worked as a producer on numerous films, including Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Cancer Rising with Rutger Hauer.
As a writer...
George Sluizer, the Dutch director best known for The Vanishing and Dark Blood, River Phoenix’s last film, died in Amsterdam on Saturday (Sept 20) following a long illness, according to Dutch media. He was 82.
“Sluizer had been ill for a long time. In 2007 he barely survived a ruptured artery and after that his health remained fragile,” according to Dutch public broadcaster Nos, quoting relatives.
The director, producer and screenwriter was born in Paris, where he attended the Idhec film academy.
He made his first film in 1961, Hold Back the Sea, a documentary that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Up until the early 1980s, Sluizer produced and directed many documentaries and TV specials. He also worked as a producer on numerous films, including Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Cancer Rising with Rutger Hauer.
As a writer...
- 9/22/2014
- by [email protected] (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
An intriguing documentary about a real eccentric – Megan Boyd who crafted fishing flies with a passion
What seems at first an impossibly flimsy and meagre documentary subject slowly reveals itself as cine-miniaturism with charm. Eric Steel – who directed The Bridge, about suicides on San Francisco's Golden Gate – was inspired by a New York Times obituary of Megan Boyd. Boyd had lived in a tumbledown cottage in remote northern Scotland and had been awarded the British Empire medal for creating fishing flies with passionate dedication and craft. Fishing aficionados and connoisseurs valued her work, and jealously guarded their relationship with her. The Prince of Wales was a regular customer. Steel talks to Boyd's friends, neighbours and customers and builds up an intriguing portrait of a real eccentric: a woman who dressed mannishly, drove outrageously, danced vigorously and played bridge with abandon. Teasingly, Steel withholds footage of Boyd until the end, and...
What seems at first an impossibly flimsy and meagre documentary subject slowly reveals itself as cine-miniaturism with charm. Eric Steel – who directed The Bridge, about suicides on San Francisco's Golden Gate – was inspired by a New York Times obituary of Megan Boyd. Boyd had lived in a tumbledown cottage in remote northern Scotland and had been awarded the British Empire medal for creating fishing flies with passionate dedication and craft. Fishing aficionados and connoisseurs valued her work, and jealously guarded their relationship with her. The Prince of Wales was a regular customer. Steel talks to Boyd's friends, neighbours and customers and builds up an intriguing portrait of a real eccentric: a woman who dressed mannishly, drove outrageously, danced vigorously and played bridge with abandon. Teasingly, Steel withholds footage of Boyd until the end, and...
- 1/10/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Salman Rushdie's ad for his new book, sorry I mean Alan Yentob's insightful investigation of years spent living a secret life, turned up on our screens with particularly piquant timing.
Alan Yentob with Salman Rushdie - if Special Branch had ever needed a decoy, they need have looked no further
The author, who spent a decade living under the constant threat of the 1989 fatwa placed on him by an irate Ayatollah following the publication of his Satanic Verses, said he would only write the book of his life once he felt confident he would be able to write the final page.
Now, after another decade of living freely, he's put pen to page. And the very week the book hits the shops, a bounty has been put back on his head, following the release of the film Innocence of Muslims.
This turn of events was not referred to...
Alan Yentob with Salman Rushdie - if Special Branch had ever needed a decoy, they need have looked no further
The author, who spent a decade living under the constant threat of the 1989 fatwa placed on him by an irate Ayatollah following the publication of his Satanic Verses, said he would only write the book of his life once he felt confident he would be able to write the final page.
Now, after another decade of living freely, he's put pen to page. And the very week the book hits the shops, a bounty has been put back on his head, following the release of the film Innocence of Muslims.
This turn of events was not referred to...
- 9/20/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Aol TV.
Housing 50 years of thought-provoking content was never going to be easy. Since 1962, The Sunday Times Magazine - a supplement that then owner Roy Thomson summed up with 'My God, this is going to be a disaster' - has pushed boundaries, sparked debate and inspired the masses. Having weaved itself into the rich tapestry of British Journalism, The Sunday Times Magazine continues to captivate its audiences with superlative content and photojournalism, and remains a consummate professional within the broadsheet genre.
The press release states that the exhibition - which is set to run until Sunday 19th Februrary - will "showcase the work of some of the world's finest photographers who have worked for the Magazine over the years". Furthermore, it will also "highlight the contribution made to the Magazine by renowned writers", with its collection including - but not limited to - the likes of Ian Fleming, Martin Amis and Bruce Chatwin.
The press release states that the exhibition - which is set to run until Sunday 19th Februrary - will "showcase the work of some of the world's finest photographers who have worked for the Magazine over the years". Furthermore, it will also "highlight the contribution made to the Magazine by renowned writers", with its collection including - but not limited to - the likes of Ian Fleming, Martin Amis and Bruce Chatwin.
- 2/6/2012
- Shadowlocked
The internet may have made redundant the Victorian type of travel book, full of facts and figures, but it's a form of literature that can still thrive
'Hugh Grant loses his bookshop in Notting Hill" was the headline on an article that appeared last week in my local Spanish newspaper. International interest in London's Travel Bookshop (described as a tourist attraction comparable to Paris's Shakespeare and Company) is entirely due to its central role in a popular film promoting an engaging view of London and the British. In Britain, the news of the bookshop's closure has additional and more serious implications – for the future not only of similar independent establishments, but also, and no less importantly, of travel writing.
Travel writing today has an undoubtedly tarnished image. The casting of Hugh Grant in Notting Hill says much about popular preconceptions of the genre and its practitioners. It is a...
'Hugh Grant loses his bookshop in Notting Hill" was the headline on an article that appeared last week in my local Spanish newspaper. International interest in London's Travel Bookshop (described as a tourist attraction comparable to Paris's Shakespeare and Company) is entirely due to its central role in a popular film promoting an engaging view of London and the British. In Britain, the news of the bookshop's closure has additional and more serious implications – for the future not only of similar independent establishments, but also, and no less importantly, of travel writing.
Travel writing today has an undoubtedly tarnished image. The casting of Hugh Grant in Notting Hill says much about popular preconceptions of the genre and its practitioners. It is a...
- 8/27/2011
- by Michael Jacobs
- The Guardian - Film News
Werner Herzog's presence in his own films – including the new Cave of Forgotten Dreams – marks him out as a romantic, eager to experience what he's trying to understand
Few film directors seem as directly present in their work as Werner Herzog. Not only does he have an instantly recognisable aesthetic, but unlike most European auteurs of his generation, he has become a familiar face in front of the camera. We are so accustomed to seeing him – playing football with Peruvian indians, arguing with Klaus Kinski, eating his own shoe at Chez Panisse – that we might mistake him for just another "personality", one of the celebrities who parade past at various scales, from cellphone to Times Square, on our screens. Directors are required to be showmen, particularly directors of documentaries, who always have to hustle to finance and screen their work. But Herzog's presence, his insistence on being in the middle of things,...
Few film directors seem as directly present in their work as Werner Herzog. Not only does he have an instantly recognisable aesthetic, but unlike most European auteurs of his generation, he has become a familiar face in front of the camera. We are so accustomed to seeing him – playing football with Peruvian indians, arguing with Klaus Kinski, eating his own shoe at Chez Panisse – that we might mistake him for just another "personality", one of the celebrities who parade past at various scales, from cellphone to Times Square, on our screens. Directors are required to be showmen, particularly directors of documentaries, who always have to hustle to finance and screen their work. But Herzog's presence, his insistence on being in the middle of things,...
- 4/18/2011
- by Hari Kunzru
- The Guardian - Film News
Jonathan Franzen's family epic, a new collection from Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin's love letters, a memoir centred on tiny Japanese sculptures ... which books most excited our writers this year?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In Red Dust Road (Picador) Jackie Kay writes lucidly and honestly about being the adopted black daughter of white parents, about searching for her white birth mother and Nigerian birth father, and about the many layers of identity. She has a rare ability to portray sentiment with absolutely no sentimentality. Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House) is a fresh and wonderful history of African-American migration. Chang-rae Lee's The Surrendered (Little, Brown) is a grave, beautiful novel about people who experienced the Korean war and the war's legacy. And David Remnick's The Bridge (Picador) is a thorough and well-written biography of Barack Obama. The many Americans who believe invented biographical details about Obama would do well to read it.
- 11/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
From the hip-hop artist who scares Kanye West to the funniest teens on the telly and the launch of Tom Ford's must-have womenswear label, here are 20 highlights for the next season
1. Celebrity offspring
It's easy to be envious of second-generation celebrities. Not only do their genes mean that without even trying they look vaguely famous, but they also get an unfair leg-up when it comes to money and contacts. While most of them squander their good luck, there's a batch of famous names who are annoyingly impressive. Though both Julia and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, children of French Vogue editor Carine, have done the obligatory modelling stint, they've both now struck out on their own. Vladimir, 28, has launched Feedback, a company that stages pop-up art shows, big sister Julia, meanwhile, works as a consultant art director. Elsewhere, Holly Branson has dropped out of medical school to work as publisher on entertainment magazine Maverick for dad,...
1. Celebrity offspring
It's easy to be envious of second-generation celebrities. Not only do their genes mean that without even trying they look vaguely famous, but they also get an unfair leg-up when it comes to money and contacts. While most of them squander their good luck, there's a batch of famous names who are annoyingly impressive. Though both Julia and Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, children of French Vogue editor Carine, have done the obligatory modelling stint, they've both now struck out on their own. Vladimir, 28, has launched Feedback, a company that stages pop-up art shows, big sister Julia, meanwhile, works as a consultant art director. Elsewhere, Holly Branson has dropped out of medical school to work as publisher on entertainment magazine Maverick for dad,...
- 8/28/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Eccentrically charming documentary by Super Furry Animals singer Gruff Rhys. He goes to Argentina on the trail of a 1960s singer who sang Welsh ballads in the style of an Argentinian cowboy. By Steve Rose
Someone ought to give Gruff Rhys a travel show. The Super Furry Animals singer is gentle, sincere and modestly eccentric, and those qualities all rub off on this charming outsider travelogue. He's like a cross between Michael Palin, Bruce Chatwin and Donovan. The subject of Rhys's quest here is René Griffiths, an obscure 1960s pop star who sang Welsh ballads in the style of an Argentinian cowboy. When Rhys discovers Griffiths is a distant uncle, last seen farming llama-like beasts in Patagonia, he heads off to track him down, not by jumping on a plane, but by donning a red crash helmet and "teleporting" from place to place – one of several mildly psychedelic touches that...
Someone ought to give Gruff Rhys a travel show. The Super Furry Animals singer is gentle, sincere and modestly eccentric, and those qualities all rub off on this charming outsider travelogue. He's like a cross between Michael Palin, Bruce Chatwin and Donovan. The subject of Rhys's quest here is René Griffiths, an obscure 1960s pop star who sang Welsh ballads in the style of an Argentinian cowboy. When Rhys discovers Griffiths is a distant uncle, last seen farming llama-like beasts in Patagonia, he heads off to track him down, not by jumping on a plane, but by donning a red crash helmet and "teleporting" from place to place – one of several mildly psychedelic touches that...
- 7/29/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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