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The Important Cinema Club

#123 - The Terrible Werner Herzog

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7576 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the career of the filmmaker behind SCREAM OF STONE, INVINCIBLE and SALT AND FIRE. Also, some films called FITZCARRALDO, AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD, and GRIZZLY MAN. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at importantcinemaclubpodcast@gmail.com WWW.PATREON.COM/THEIMPORTANTCINEMACLUB On this week's Patreon episodes, we discuss Liquid Sky and a handful of movie oddities. Join for five dollars a month and get a brand new exclusive episode of ICC every week.

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0:00.0

Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

0:08.1

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

0:10.3

And today, we're talking about someone that's near and dear to me and Will.

0:14.9

Yep, that's right, the star of Jack Reacher.

0:18.7

And if you didn't like him in that, perhaps you enjoyed him in Mr. Lonely.

0:23.2

Oh, the classic Jared Leto vehicle.

0:26.0

Or a little film called The Grand.

0:31.5

With Zach Penn.

0:32.8

That Zach Pan.

0:33.6

Actually, he's made two films with Zach Pan.

0:36.0

He also did Incident at Lockness.

0:38.2

Oh, man. I remember that one would haunt the Rogers video shelves in the U section.

0:42.4

What a crazy put. Okay, we're talking about Werner Herzog, first of all.

0:45.6

Wasn't it crazy that Incident at Lockness got a huge video store push? So massive.

0:50.8

I mean, that's, that's a movie that's strictly for the diehard Werner Herzog

0:55.1

completists. And I feel like there's a lot of diehards out there. Oh, yeah. Because Werner Herzog

1:00.5

is the guy that I feel that like, when you become a cinephile, you go towards right away.

1:06.1

And I can confirm that because I think that he was really the first of those big international art house

1:11.8

guys that I loved. And I'm going to admit, I didn't come to him till probably after college.

1:16.4

I was like a Casper Hauser leaving my cave, not knowing who I should watch or what I should

1:22.9

watch. Because I've said many times before, I grew up in a small town. When I was in junior high

1:27.5

in high school, nobody I liked watched movies. We didn't even have a cinema in our small town.

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