They say get them while they’re young. For Werner Herzog, that doesn’t seem to be an issue at all. “I have tonnes of emails from 15-year-olds,” he reveals. “It’s the very young ones who discover my films.” Thanks to the internet, the German filmmaker’s back catalogue is widely available to a new generation of viewers. Of course, it helps when you’re currently starring in Disney+’s superb Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian.
Playing ‘The Client’ who sets Pedro Pascal’s bounty hunter on his mission, Herzog is quite perfect. His acting forays are rare – a villain in Jack Reacher, films for Harmony Korine, a bit-part in sappy Robin Williams movie What Dreams May Come – but there’s something pleasurable about seeing him on screen, even just hearing that unique Bavarian accent.
Certainly, it’s no surprise that he’s narrated his documentaries, whether pushing the forefront of 3D technology in Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, travelling to Antarctica in the Oscar-nominated Encounters At The End Of The World or exploring the world of animal activist Timothy Treadwell in Grizzly Man. Yet this is just a fraction of an endlessly fascinating career that is absolutely – like the name of the film school he once set up – rogue.
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RETURN TO OZ
WICKED Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande defy gravity as the Broadway smash reaches cinemas.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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BAD ROMANCE
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CLOWNING GORY
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SELF EXPRESSION
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GENA ROWLANDS
I like difficult roles,' said Gena Rowlands. No kidding. A stage, TV and film actor whose career spanned more than six decades, Rowlands will be most remembered for the series of coruscating dramas she made with her first husband, actor-turned-director John Cassavetes, between 1968 and 1984.
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BLODD PRESSURE
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Lucky Man
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A BUE ABOVE
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