Parallax View Presents
An archive of Parallax View “Special Sections”
September 2009 – With two new films from Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (David Hudson collects the reviews at The Auteurs Daily here) and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (again, David Hudson rounds up responses at The Auteurs Daily here), at the 2009 Venice Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, Parallax View revisits his earlier films with new and archival essays and reviews.
On Staring Into the Camera: Aguirre and Bears by Robert Horton
Rescue Dawn: The Challenge of the Extraordinary by Robert C. Cumbow
Losing Focus: Three Herzog Shorts by David Coursen
Grizzly Man: The Overwhelming Indifference Of Nature by Sean Axmaker
Fitzcarraldo: The Idea Was a Bold One by Robert C. Cumbow
Stroszek by David Coursen
Heart of Glass by David Coursen
Land of Silence and Darkness: What It Means to be Human by David Coursen
Aguirre, The Wrath Of God: Extraordinary Images, Extraordinary Resonance by Ken Eisler
Aguirre, The Wrath of God: Defying the Natural Order by David Coursen
Signs of Life: Longing for a Rational, Ordered World by David Coursen
Offing the Pig: Even Dwarfs Started Small by Ken Eisler
Even Dwarfs Started Small: Persistence and Futility by David Coursen