The Twilight World: Discover the first novel from the iconic filmmaker Werner Herzog

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Suzuki rimane impassibile. “In Occidente, la Germania ha perso la guerra. La resa è avvenuta addirittura mesi prima di quella del Giappone.”" SHAPIRO: You write about this so beautifully. You say, a night bird shrieks, and a year passes. A fat drop of water on the waxy leaf of a banana plant glistens briefly in the sun, and another year is gone.

Every Man for Himself and God Against All is at once a personal record of one of the great self-invented lives of our time, and a masterpiece that will enthral fans old and new. In a hypnotic swirl of memory, Herzog untangles and relives his most important experiences and inspirations, telling his story for the first and only time. Zalewski, Daniel (17 April 2006). "The Ecstatic Truth: Werner Herzog's Quest". The New Yorker. New York City . Retrieved 5 May 2020. Werner Herzog is to head the Berlin Film Festival jury". BBC News. 20 November 2009 . Retrieved 22 December 2009. Debruge, Peter (28 September 2010). "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga". Variety . Retrieved 20 October 2020.Herzog in all his extravagant, perspicacious glory . . .witty and captivating as he recollects all kinds of odd, curious, and outlandish events, people, and injuries . . .Fans and neophytes alike will relish the opportunity to delve deeply into Herzog’s fascinating mind.” — Kirkus (starred review) Great Actor & Director Partnerships: Klaus Kinski & Werner Herzog". Empire . Retrieved 19 June 2010. In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and would meet many times, talking for hours and together unraveling the story of Onoda's long war. HERZOG: No, of course not. I'm not planning that way. Things come with me with a certain vehemence, and then at the end, I don't question much. And I go directly for the very hard core of the story. And this is why I met Onoda quite a few times. And we immediately had a rapport because I had been in the jungle under difficult circumstances for something entirely different, of course.

Abramovitch, Seth (5 February 2015). "1979: When Werner Herzog Ate His Shoe". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 27 October 2021. Werner Herzog: "You can learn the essentials of filmmaking in two weeks" ". Film Industry Network. 30 May 2016.

Nem tudom, Herzogot mi ragadta meg Hiroo Onoda történetében. De azt pontosan tudom, engem mi. Az, hogy az ember nemes tulajdonságai - a hűség, a kitartás, a szakértelem - milyen könnyen fordulnak visszájukra, ha a hülyeség szolgálatába állítják őket. Itt van ez a szerencsétlen japán katona, akit felettesei azzal hagynak ott Lubang szigetén, hogy rejtőzzön el, zaklassa az amerikaiakat, amíg a per pillanat rendezetten visszavonuló, de amúgy dicsőséges és győzhetetlen japán haderő vissza nem tér. Csak ugye a dicsőséges és győzhetetlen japán hadseregről kiderült, hogy a "győzhetetlen" jelző nem egészen pontosan írja körül őket, így hát Onoda ott ragad a dzsungelben röpke harminc évre. He scratches his cheek. The question has him stumped. “But one thing I will say. My wife grew up in Siberia. Her mother tongue is Russian. My mother tongue is Bavarian. Which is not even German, it’s a dialect. But we decided, 25 years ago, that we would not speak in German or Russian to each other. Both of us leave the comfort zone of our language, and we communicate in English. This means that we are very cautious and careful. We are trying to articulate our feelings as closely as we can in a foreign tongue. And the result? In 25 years there has not been a single foul word that has passed between us.” Anyway, Herzog adds, pushing his spectacles up his nose, the point is that the money he made from acting in The Mandalorian was used to bankroll Family Romance, LLC. He shot it on video, in Japan, using non-professional actors and what he refers to as “intelligent translators” – although the budget was still so pinched that he was forced to shoot without permits and plot his film like a heist. Out of this frenetic activity came a picture that is quiet, moving and melancholy. Family Romance, LLC paints an off-kilter portrait of modern-day loneliness. It also raises the possibility that every human relationship is, at heart, a performance. Herzog nods. “The film is deceptively simple on the surface,” he says. “But these are deep, deep questions.” The book is nonlinear and exuberantly free-associative, less a narrative than an extravagant demonstration of sensibility . . . Like so many of his films, his memoir is not at home in its ostensible genre. A very thin thread of autobiography runs through an otherwise vibrant tapestry of anecdotes and adventures . . . His melancholic, meditative and theatrically nostalgic way of being is as irrepressible in his writing as it is in his films . . . I feel the same sense of awe when I contemplate the phenomenon of Werner Herzog as I do when I contemplate the pyramids. Amazing, that this fabulous impracticality exists.” —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post Werner Herzog Interview | PLANET°". Planet-mag.com. 7 September 2010. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2013.