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Ishtar
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (OOP)
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The Devils
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The Pirates of Penzance
(Papp/Leach, 1983)
The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)
-30-
(Webb, 1959)
Betrayal
(Jones, 1983)
Play It As It Lays
(Perry, 1972)
The Outfit
(Flynn, 1973)
Alex in Wonderland
(Mazursky, 1969)
The Legend of Lylah Clare
(Aldrich, 1968)
In The Cool of the Day
(Stevens, 1963)
That Cold Day in the Park
(Altman, 1969)
Thumb Trippin'
(Masters, 1972)
Midas Run
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At Long Last Love
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Brewster McCloud
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Outcast of the Islands
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The Moon's Our Home
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Sh! The Octopus
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Bad for Each Other
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The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
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House of Secrets
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Saint Joan
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Macabre
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The Fiend Who Walked the West
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Five Gates to Hell
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1960's
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Summer and Smoke
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The Chapman Report
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Bachelor Flat
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The L Shaped Room
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The Chalk Garden
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A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
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The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
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Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
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1970-1974
The Revolutionary
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The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
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Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
The Music Lovers
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Drive, He Said
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The Steagle
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The Last Movie
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Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
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Hickey & Boggs (OOP)
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
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Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Man on a Swing
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Open Season
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The Tamarind Seed
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Law and Disorder
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Homebodies
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Stardust
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Celine and Julie Go Boating
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Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
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At Long Last Love
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Hearts of the West
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Welcome to L.A.
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W.C. Fields and Me
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Citizens Band
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Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
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Movie Movie
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The Medusa Touch
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American Hot Wax
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Hot Stuff
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Scavenger Hunt
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Players
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Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
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1980's
Resurrection
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The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 1983)
Trouble in Mind
(Rudolph, 1985)
When the Wind Blows
(Murikami, 1986)
Housekeeping
(Forsyth, 1987)
The Glass Menagerie
(Newman, 1987)
Patty Hearst
(Schrader, 1988)
Drowning by Numbers
(Greenaway, 1988)
Haunted Summer
(Passer, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
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1990's
Old Times
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Prospero's Books
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City of Hope
(Sayles, 1991)
The Baby of Macon
(Greenaway, 1993)
King of the Hill
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Dadetown
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SubUrbia
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1. Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals.

2. The number of participants will be limited.

3. Locations and dates will be announced on this website and Werner Herzog's website: www.wernerherzog.com approximately 12 weeks in advance.

4. The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.

5. The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.

6. The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.

7. Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?

8. Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.

9. Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your boundaries, and Inner Growth.

10. Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list: if possible, read Virgil's "Georgics", Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "The Poetic Edda," translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular "The Prophecy of the Seeress"), Bernal Diaz del Castillo's "True History of the Conquest of New Spain."

11. Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 24, 2009 at 2:07 PM

comment #1

Rich S. says ...

This looks like the greatest thing ever. If I lived in L.A., I'd sign up immediately. Then, the first day of the seminar, I walk up to Herzog and smash a melon over his head.

He'd either murder me where I stood, or immediately sign me for his next film. There is no middle option.

Posted by Rich S. at September 24, 2009 2:18 PM

comment #2

Colin says ...

Herzog is certainly one of the most interesting people in the world.

But speaking of brainless check out Hunter Stephenson's article

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/09/24/mickey-rourke-to-play-true-life-mafia-assassin-in-the-ice-man-whats-the-precedent-for-this-film/?success

Fucking clueless.

Posted by Colin at September 24, 2009 2:22 PM

comment #3

Joshua Mooney says ...

If history has taught us anything, it's that despite an unapologetic demeanor, earning a drop of sympathy is never an impossible task.

Posted by Joshua Mooney at September 24, 2009 2:54 PM

comment #4

ShiveeTimbers says ...

What makes Hunter clueless, Colin? He's posing, what is, quite a legitimate question. What IS the cultural relevancy of glorifying the life of a souless psychopath? Haven't there been enough films that have explored this territory?

Posted by ShiveeTimbers at September 24, 2009 3:00 PM

comment #5

Joshua Mooney says ...

P.S.: I was referring above to the "Ice Man" via Colin's post, not Herzog, who is one of a tiny handful of men whose Camel I'd smoke after walking a mile.

Posted by Joshua Mooney at September 24, 2009 3:02 PM

comment #6

ShiveeTimbers says ...

And as far as Herzog is concerned...

For a guy who claims to be a Buddhist, you sure has massive ego.

And he is so very overrated.

Posted by ShiveeTimbers at September 24, 2009 3:04 PM

comment #7

Colin says ...

What is clueless Timbers, is the intentions of said filmmakers are going to be misinterpreted by some audiences. It is not their fault that they wanted to cover a story with some interest to them.

But what was so clueless was themildly racist statements. He killed "his poeple" what the fuck else was that supposed to mean?

Posted by Colin at September 24, 2009 3:09 PM

comment #8

Colin says ...

*his people

Posted by Colin at September 24, 2009 3:12 PM

comment #9

ShiveeTimbers says ...

Good point. Well, you know how them there Eyetalians are.

Posted by ShiveeTimbers at September 24, 2009 3:42 PM

comment #10

corey3rd says ...

for $1,450 - do they frame my certificate?

Posted by corey3rd at September 24, 2009 4:41 PM

comment #11

Edward says ...

Herzog overrated! "Rescue Dawn," "Grizzly Man," "Fitzcaraldo," "Nosferatu," "Aguirre." I wish I had half his talent.

Posted by Edward at September 24, 2009 5:13 PM

comment #12

drbob says ...

Wow, this sounds like a lot of fun. I'd be even more excited if he brought along his current producer, a little know chap named David Lynch (so long as he focused on movies and not TM).

Posted by drbob at September 24, 2009 5:22 PM

comment #13

ShiveeTimbers says ...

Yes, Edward. Overrated. With the exception of Grizzly Man, the last of his better movies was released in 1982. That's what, more than 25 years ago? Look at all the crap he's made in between.

Though Grizzly Man was his best in almost two decades it is hardly a masterpiece, especially due to the fact that he injected himself into the narrative so much the movie was less about the Grizzly Man himself and more about Herzog's indefatigable ego.

And Rescue Dawn? Please! That movie added nothing to the POW-Escapes-From-A-Tortuous-WarTorn-Tropical Jungle genre. There are many other films in that category that are far superior, and certainly less all over the place, and more historically accurate, and without such a pat ending.

Like Coppola, Herzog has been riding on the fumes of his much earlier work for decades. But at least Coppola has some really great wine t show for it.

Out of all of his German New Wave contemporaries, I'd take any of Fassbinder over any of Herzog, any day of the week.

Posted by ShiveeTimbers at September 24, 2009 7:01 PM

comment #14

Travis Crabtree says ...

Rich S. - nice!

Posted by Travis Crabtree at September 24, 2009 7:06 PM

comment #15

dougd says ...

Shiveetimbers - if by "crap in the last 25 years" you mean THE WHITE DIAMOND, LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY, LESSONS OF DARKNESS, THE WILD BLUE YONDER, THE DARK GLOW OF THE MOUNTAINS, and ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, then you and I have very different meanings of the word crap.

And that's coming from someone who doesn't rate RESCUE DAWN at all.

Posted by dougd at September 24, 2009 9:46 PM

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