Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School

Anne Thompson of Thompson on Hollywood (formerly at Variety, now Indiewire) has long been one of my favorite film bloggers – one of the few who have never dropped off my Google Reader. She also maintains a very useful Twitter stream, and today she pointed to Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. From the website’s “About” page: The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent... Read More

Putting Herzog in a Box

Film Studies For Free has been a favorite blog for a while precisely because of announcements like this. Starzmedia, one of Herzog’s key distributors, has posted eight of Herzog’s early and mid-career films on YouTube. These include the well seen Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre, Little Deiter Needs to Fly, Woyzeck, and My Best Fiend – but also a few that have been off the beaten track for a while. It will be nice have this handy way to proselytize more Herzog fans by... Read More