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19 November 2009 10:26 AM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By ScreenDaily

Werner Herzog will head the jury at the upcoming 60th Berlin International Film Festival (February 11-21).

The German auteur has made over 50 films during a career which has spanned almost 50 years, including "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" (Special Jury Prize, Cannes 1975), "Fitzcarraldo" (1982, Silver Palm in Cannes for Best Director), "Cobra Verde" (1987) and "Rescue Dawn" (2006).

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- Brent Lang

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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9 November 2009 9:03 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

I had every intention of seeing The Men Who Stare At Goats this weekend, but time gets away when you're doing laundry and scrubbing dogs. So I turned to Netflix and decided to do a double feature of Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Cobra Verde. Yeah, I'm not sure why I do these things to myself either.

But the intense eyes of Werner Herzog's best fiend inspired a little list of the actors and actresses who inspire you to shift in your seat with just a single gaze. The list is long and extremely difficult to narrow down to just five, and is unfairly biased towards the menfolk. While a very honorable mention goes to Clint Eastwood's squint, in the interest of variety and equality I decided to honor five others that were equally as terrifying. I hope you dig deep into your fears, and offer up »

- Elisabeth Rappe

3 articles from 2009