Early in Les Blank’s 1982 documentary “Burden of Dreams,” director-turned-subject Werner Herzog explains why he feels obligated to see a difficult production through to the end. “It’s not only my ...

Who better than Werner Herzog, the Bavarian mad genius, to take us on a heady time-travelling exploration on what truth might mean/be/permit? The Future of Truth is a summation of his life project, ...

The lineup for the New Orleans Film Society's weeklong Film-O-Rama screening series is still developing, but it's already got a must-see title: the Werner Herzog documentary "Cave of Forgotten Dreams ...

A legendary Director is recorded while filming an ambitious feature in Director Les Blank’s 1982 documentary, Burden of Dreams. Burden of Dreams follows Director Werner Herzog and his cast and crew as ...

“With the international membership now representing more than 20 percent of the total voters, this year all five documentary nominees were international,” Thompson wrote, tying the trend to numerous ...

Theater of Thought‘s plot synopsis: “Werner Herzog sets his sights on yet another mysterious landscape — the human brain — for clues as to why a hunk of tissue can produce profound thoughts and ...

EXCLUSIVE: Werner Herzog’s documentary explorations have ranged from the cosmic (Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds) to the fiery depths (Into the Inferno). His latest nonfiction film takes him on ...

National Geographic announced it has acquired the streaming rights to "Ghost Elephants," which is written, directed and narrated by Werner Herzog and features National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes.

Many of 2022’s most-anticipated shows have already premiered (Stranger Things, Hacks, the Muppets episode of Holey Moley), but don’t forget about Documentary Now!. The mockumentary series on IFC, ...

Thomas von Steinaecker first reached out to Werner Herzog in 2020 about making a documentary surveying the prolific director’s career. Von Steinaecker’s peers told him that he would never hear back ...

John Mulaney's "Burden of Dreams" parody — chronicling Herzog's famously fraught "Fitzcarraldo" production — kicks off another outstanding season. Early in Les Blank’s 1982 documentary “Burden of ...