Time has revealed Werner Herzog’s greatest artwork to be himself; his movies are always about himself more than anything else.…
Feature Friday: “Epileptic Seizure Comparison” (1976)
I saw this at the Whitney Millennial Biennial in 2000. It’s still one of the wildest things I’ve seen, and…
Feature Friday: “Sans soleil” (1983)
[Note: Some number of previous Feature Friday films—7/20, I think—have since disappeared from YouTube. Such is the nature of gray…
Feature Friday: “Richard Feynman, The Last Journey of a Genius” (aka “The Quest for Tannu Tuva”) (1988)
A friend gave me a VHS copy of this after learning that Richard P. Feynman was one of my childhood…
Feature Friday: “Vagabond” (1985)
My favorite film of the 1980s? It’s probably either this or Blade Runner, depending on which one I’ve seen last.…
Feature Friday: “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” (1964)
It took me a while to catch up with this one, but when I did, I saw it projected at…
Feature Friday: “The Devils” (1971)
I was looking for a copy of Lair of the White Worm (1988), my favorite Ken Russell film, but couldn’t…
Feature Friday: “The Heartbreak Kid” (1972)
I know the world is getting better because I can now read X-Men comics on my computer (and touchpad!). But…
Feature Friday: “Anima Mundi” (1992)
Anima Mundi is Latin for “the shortest Godfrey Reggio / Philip Glass collaboration”—the third of their four “musical nature documentaries.”…
Feature Friday: “The Baby of Mâcon” (1993)
Time Magazine, Peter Greenaway had you beat back in 1993—and then some. Below the jump you’ll find the polemical Welsh…