Marcy and I arrived in San Ignacio, in the Cayo district of Belize near the Guatemalan border, by overland bus, and proceeded straight to the closest Internet cafe because our weekly About.com newsletter was overdue. That last plugged-in task taken care of, we chatted with a couple of Castaneda-quoting hippies looking to reenact Burroughs’ and [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged werner-herzog
Muck Muckson and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Posted by Jürgen on May 18, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/05/18/kingdom-of-the-crystal-skull/
Konsum: Haverford Edition
Awards season has begun in earnest, preparations for the About.com redesign are in high gear, and the Phil Lesh Halloween extravaganza and marathon is upon us, so I’m resurrecting a category from the early days of muckworld, when everything was still hidden behind a password and we had a grand total of four (4) readers: [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 31, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/10/31/konsum-haverford-edition/
Rescue Dawn
Ten years ago, Werner Herzog made a documentary called Little Dieter Needs to Fly, about a German-born U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down in Laos during the beginning stages of the Vietnam war. Now, Herzog returns with a fictionalized version of the very same story starring Christian Bale. It’s obvious why the director of [...]
Posted by Jürgen on June 13, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/13/rescue-dawn/
Cobra Verde
It’s not difficult to argue that all Herzog/Kinski films are attempts at making and remaking the same movie — Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu and Woyzek less so — but that’s the beginning of the discussion rather than its conclusion. After all, most romantic comedies are remakes of the same movie, too. This final collaboration is no [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 25, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/03/25/cobra-verde/
Midweek Roundup
The noosphere grows a lot more self-aware with the advent of IM/SMS nanoblogging site Twitter. Make an account, hook up your phone and/or chat client, and send 140-character updates to your friends. Resistance is futile — and no fun. For the bar-hopping crowd, there’s Dodgeball. The 300 debate rages on: roundups at GreenCineDaily and IFC [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 21, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/03/21/midweek-roundup/
The Wild Blue Yonder
Only Werner Herzog would attempt to remake 2001: A Space Odyssey as documentary. Brad Dourif plays an alien stranded on earth; Roswell and microbes are involved somehow, and NASA footage is slyly repurposed to illustrate a space mission to his home planet. Real-life mathematicians explain how to slingshot around planets, and for the exploration of [...]
Posted by Jürgen on January 19, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/01/19/the-wild-blue-yonder/
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Free Willy
It’s not that I can’t tell a killer whale from a serial rapist — it’s simply that the dumbest puns sometimes amuse most, especially when they offer mild relief for otherwise unbearibly grim tales of doomed love and ill-fated desires. Benten‘s fourth DVD release Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) streeted last week (yes, it’s [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/06/30/free-willy/