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17 November 2009 10:22 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Werner Herzog Brings The Music Back

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Alex Simon

Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor and opera director Werner Herzog was born Werner H. Stipetić on 5 September 1942 in Munich. His family moved to the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang in the Chiemgau Alps after the house next to theirs was destroyed during bombing towards the close of World War II. When he was twelve, he and his family moved back to Munich. The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school and adamantly refused. He was almost expelled for this and until the age of eighteen listened to no music, sang no songs and studied no instruments. He would later say that he would easily give ten years from his life to be able to play an instrument. At fourteen, he was inspired by an encyclopedia entry about film-making which he says provided »

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22 September 2009 2:20 PM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »

Have you longed to remake previously-thought-untouchable Abel Ferrara cult classics since before you could talk? Can you rattle off the beasts of Grizzly Man as easily as Snow White's dwarves or Santa's reindeer? When your classmates discovered women, were you more preoccupied with Woyzeck? Then maybe you're just the person to attend anti-establishment filmmaker Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School™. The school, as evidenced by its 11-point doctrine, is not here to instruct you on how to make films. For that, you can go to non-rogue institutions like Nyu or USC. So what will it teach you? Beyond the fundamentals of visual storytelling, how about "the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully ... The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy." And much, much more! The full rundown is after the jump. »

2 articles from 2009