“Bela Lugosi takes a break from filming Son of Frankenstein to greet his wife and utterly confuse his son, Bela Lugosi, Jr.,” via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger….
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![That’s Greta Garbo there with the [MGM?] lion.
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“Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep…he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No—panther claws should rip open his throat—that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It’s no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.”
“His speech is clumsy, with a toadlike indolence, long winded, pedantic, choppy. The words tumble from his mouth in sentence fragments, which he holds back as much as possible, as if they were earning interest. It takes forever and a day for him to push out a clump of hardened brain snot. Then he writhes in painful ecstasy, as if he had sugar on his rotten teeth. A very slow blab machine. An obsolete model with a non-working switch — it can’t be turned off unless you cut off the electric power altogether. So I’d have to smash him in the kisser. No, I’d have to knock him unconscious. But even if he were unconscious he’d keep talking. Even if his vocal cords were sliced through, he’d keep talking like a ventriloquist. Even if his throat were cut and his head were chopped off, speech balloons would still dangle from his mouth like gases emitted by internal decay.”
“Nobody is going to buy the book if I say nice things about you, Werner.”
Previously: Werner Herzog on Klaus Kinski
He was as masculine as any man I’ve ever known, and as much a little boy as a grown man could be – it was this combination that had such a devastating effect on women. But there was nothing of ‘the King’ about his personality. Just the opposite. Utter simplicity. Uncomplicated. A man who lived on a simple, down-to-earth scale.
Werner Herzog talks about Klaus Kinski’s influence on him, plays a tape of a furious, practically hysterical Kinski secretly recorded during the filming of Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes.
Courtesy of A Patient Boy
I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they’re like little flowers. I’ve always said that if you have a name for something, like ‘cut’ or ‘bruise,’ people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don’t know what it is, it can be very beautiful.
Censored scenes from the early days of cinema: “This short was made for the 2007 72-Hour Film Festival in Frederick, Maryland. All of the clips used in this film came from a reel of 35mm nitrate found in an old theater somewhere in Pennsylvania. The projectionist clipped these scenes to meet local moral standards of the time… The music used is a public domain midi file from archive.org, titled musicbox.”
Clips of Geraldine Brezca, Tarantino’s Camera Angel and the 2nd AC, and her random, hilarious comments taken during the filming of Inglourious Basterds. This is a special feature on the 2-disc DVD release.
