The Collected Werner Herzog

I think a long while back - this blog does seem to go back a bit a ways - I put together as comprehensive list of Ingmar Bergman films I'd reviewed in one blog (maybe more for myself in an obsessive list sense than anything else, though for you fine readers to peruse is the main task).  And now I realize that another filmmaker - Werner Herzog - is another one a) that I've seen a shitload of his movies, and b) I've seen and reviewed most of them that are available in the US (a few have fallen through the cracks I think, like God's Angry Man or Scream of Stone, which are hard to find in in good quality or not PAL, but these are very few).

I went on a 'kick' of Herzog years back, and whenever a new one comes out I do my best to see them all (he did a series of Death Row docs as well after Into the Abyss, and I may be missing a few of those frankly, and it was such `a fantastic series I regret it, but I digress).  I'll also include the films of his projects he's acted/produced, like for Zak Penn or Korine, and docs as well.

So... here (and I'll italicize my top 10 for good measure - I kinda have Dieter & Dawn at a tie by the way, so it's really 11):

SIGNS OF LIFE (1968)
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST FANATICS (1969)
EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL (1970)
FATA MORGANA (1971)
LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS (1971)
AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972)
THE GREAT ECSTASY OF WOODCARVER STEINER (1974)
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL (1974)
HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK? (1976)
HEART OF GLASS (1976)
STROSZEK (1977)
LA SOUFRIERE (1977)
NOSFERATU: THE VAMPYRE (1979)
WOYZECK (1979)
GARLIC IS AS GOOD AS TEN MOTHERS (1980)  (BLANK)
WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE (1980) (BLANK)
BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982) (BLANK)
FITZCARRALDO (1982)
ROOM 666 (1982) (WENDERS)
WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM (1984)
BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER (1984)
COBRA VERDE (1987)
HERDSMAN OF THE SUN (1989)
LESSONS OF DARKNESS (1992)
GESUALDO: DEATH FOR FIVE VOICES (1995)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD INTO MUSIC (1996)
LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (1997)
MY BEST FIEND (1999)
INVINCIBLE (2001)
WHEEL OF TIME (2003)
INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS (2004) (PENN)
THE WILD BLUE YONDER (2005)
GRIZZLY MAN (2005)
RESCUE DAWN (2006)
THE GRAND (2007) (PENN)
MISTER LONELY (2007) (KORINE)
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2007)
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL - NEW ORLEANS (2009)
MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE? (2009)
PLASTIC BAG (2009) (BAHRANI)
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (2010)
HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA (2010)
INTO THE ABYSS (2011)
ON DEATH ROW (2012) (UNAVAILABLE)
JACK REACHER (2012) (MCQUARRIE)
THE ACT OF KILLING (2013) (OPPENHEIMER)
THE WIND RISES (2013) (MIYAZAKI)
RED ARMY (2014) (POLSKY)
LIFE ITSELF (2014) (JAMES)



and hopefully more to come!  (i.e. THE WHITE DIAMOND,  ECHOES FROM A SOMBER EMPIRE, and NO ONE WILL PLAY WITH ME)