Whether it’s the Berlinale, Cannes or Venice: Werner Herzog has nothing to do with the current film festivals
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Director Werner Herzog has broken the judiciary on today’s film landscape. When asked how he was dealing with the flood of images and the wide range of streaming services, he replied: “I see relatively few films. And of course I know that almost everything is crap.” It’s the same at the big film festivals: “Cannes: 90 percent crap. Berlinale: 95 percent rubbish. Venice: 90 percent junk,” said the 80-year-old during a press conference at the Deutsche Kinemathek.
Herzog railed against the Woke movement
On the other hand, he emphasized his own work: “The difference is that my films are different and also better.” In his eyes, however, filmmaking has not become any easier because “this whole culture of woke suddenly sets a framework that almost film and kill creativity”.
The native of Munich also talked about writing books. He doesn’t want to practice this any worse than Kafka or Kleist once did. “That means when I publish a book – for example ‘Conquest of the Useless’ or the hike to Paris ‘Vom Walking in the Ice’ – it mustn’t be worse than Büchner would have written it.” The comment that it was successful, he replied by saying, “Thanks, I know.”
Exhibition in Berlin
The Berlin Museum Kinemathek is currently showing one exhibition about Herzog, who now lives in the United States. His popular films include Klaus Kinski’s Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre, the Wrath of God, as well as Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, and the documentaries Cave of Forgotten Dreams and My Dearest Enemy.
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