Best Of: Werner Herzog / Greta Lee

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Werner Herzog talks with Terry Gross about the curiosity that's fueled his career. The filmmaker and writer is drawn to extremes: extreme characters, extreme settings, extreme scenarios. His new memoir is Every Man for Himself and God Against All.

Ken Tucker reviews the new album from The Rolling Stones.

In Past Lives, Greta Lee stars as a playwright caught between two men she loves. Lee says the film allowed her to explore the immigrant experience in a way that felt vulnerable — and personal. She spoke with Ann Marie Baldonado.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message come from
0:03.1	live-right publishers of Emperor of Rome.
0:05.8	Historian Mary Beard, named the world's most famous
0:08.8	classist by the Guardian, chronicles the lives of
0:11.5	Caesar, Caligula, Nero, and more.
0:14.0	Emperor of Rome, available now.
0:16.8	From W.H.Y.Y. in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross
0:21.2	with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:23.2	Today, Werner Herzog, he goes to extremes to make
0:26.8	films about extreme personalities, predicaments,
0:29.8	and places.
0:31.1	He's made movies in the Amazon jungle, a documentary
0:34.3	about a man who lived with grizzly bears until he was
0:37.0	eaten by one.
0:38.3	He's described two of his lead actors as madmen.
0:41.9	His new memoir is called Every Men for Himself
0:44.9	and God Against All.
0:47.3	Also, we'll hear from after Greta Lee, in her new film
0:50.2	Past Lives, she plays a Korean American playwright living
0:53.8	in New York City, caught between the present and her past.
0:57.5	Her husband and her childhood sweetheart, who's
1:00.1	visiting from Seoul.
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