Assignment #4: Dedicated Fans
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
Are there any actors/directors whose new films you will see regardless of any conditions?
Daniel
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Klaus Kinski may be creeping in your CRAWLSPACE (1986)
Dir. David Schmoeller
Alamo Ritz, 02/16/10, 10:15pm
If you are not familiar with the renowned German actor Klaus Kinski, I think I can introduce you to him in a fairly succinct way. In this week’s Terror Tuesday film, Crawlspace, Kinski plays a sexually confused ex-Nazi landlord who spies on his female tenants and sets elaborate traps [...]
MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE (2009) proves that two head cases are better than one
Dir. Werner Herzog
Alamo South Lamar, 01/21/10, 12:00pm
Be still my beating heart, two Werner Herzog movies in a single year! I told Daniel, who wrote his review of this film several weeks ago, that I could imagine the scenario of how this film’s production was set into motion: David Lynch, after deciding to assign the [...]
THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL – NEW ORLEANS (2009)
Dir. Werner Herzog
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 12/14/09, 7:20pm
Everything’s coming up aces for newly appointed Lt. Terrence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) in Werner Herzog’s latest narrative about a New Orleans police lieutenant with a bad streak (to put it lightly).
THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL – NEW ORLEANS (2009)
Dir. Werner Herzog
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 11/19/09, 7:30pm
In many of his most successful films, director Werner Herzog considers the relationships between man and nature, both the figurative relationship between man and his inner nature (through narrative and character development) and the literal relationship between man and the surrounding environment (through the visual depiction of dangerous [...]
THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL – NEW ORLEANS (2009)
Dir. Werner Herzog
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, 11/19/09, 7:30pm
This movie rocks to the break of dawn! Herzog’s most recent film, playing now in select cities but hopefully due for a proper Austin release on December 11 (the day that Psycho begins in Phoenix, Arizona), is a meditation on madness. This is Herzog’s usual subject, [...]
