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BURDEN OF DREAMS Restoration Trailer: Les Blank’s BTS Look of Werner Herzog’s ‘Fitzcarraldo’ Gets the 4K Treatment

M.J. O'Toole — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:51:06 +0000

If you thought Heart of Darkness gave you a hard enough look into the challenges of making a masterpiece of cinema in the jungle, try experiencing the frenzied making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 epic Fitzcarraldo. Iconic documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s […]

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SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

Jack Schenker — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:14:14 +0000

(Vanessa Lapa’s latest documentary Speer Goes to Hollywood is in select theaters now. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Vanessa Lapa, famed Israeli journalist and documentarian, […]

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Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is Just Around the Corner

Don R. Lewis — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:51:43 +0000

As a resident of the Northern California Bay Area, I’m always on the lookout for local film festivals that are interesting and fun to attend. About 5 years ago, the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival started coming up more and more […]

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Werner Herzog Book Reading in NYC!!!

Michael Tully — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:22:51 +0000

Lordy, lordy, lordy. Tomorrow evening (Friday, June 26th, 7pm) at the McNally Jackson bookstore in SoHo, the one-and-only Werner Herzog will be reading from his new book Conquest of the Useless, which completes the triptych that began with Fitzcarraldo and […]

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