Today, as I write this, the world is learning about the death of Ronnie James Dio, who succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of sixty-seven. The heavy-metal singer replaced Ozzy Osbourne in the late ’70s as the front man for Black Sabbath. After several years and records, Dio went on to front Ritchie Blackmore’s […]
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” […]
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 […]