The year is 1998 and Werner Herzog is one of few filmmakers who possess an aura. Not tabloid longevity, but the true beatification that comes with being a small-town Bavarian who ended up surviving not only postwar Germany but Central African prisons, Peruvian arrows, Klaus Kinski, pilgrimages across Europe and forty years in the film industry. His struggles are sometimes self-imposed but always Promethean; his vision, personal, strange and poetic. And his fans: devotional. Herzog doesn't do much to discourage the following...which is why Herzog, I and his assistant director, Herbert Golder, were laughing when we read the fortune opened by the holy man at a restaurant not far from Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope building, where Herzog was doing some work. "A modest man never talks of himself," it said. It was already too late.>> - Susan Gerhard...
- 7/15/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
The year is 1998 and Werner Herzog is one of few filmmakers who possess an aura. Not tabloid longevity, but the true beatification that comes with being a small-town Bavarian who ended up surviving not only postwar Germany but Central African prisons, Peruvian arrows, Klaus Kinski, pilgrimages across Europe and forty years in the film industry. His struggles are sometimes self-imposed but always Promethean; his vision, personal, strange and poetic. And his fans: devotional. Herzog doesn't do much to discourage the following...which is why Herzog, I and his assistant director, Herbert Golder, were laughing when we read the fortune opened by the holy man at a restaurant not far from Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope building, where Herzog was doing some work. "A modest man never talks of himself," it said. It was already too late.>> - Susan Gerhard...
- 7/15/2014
- Keyframe
And here we are, a little late but back in the saddle back with a couple of very TV-oriented weeks in worthwhile DVDs. Check out what I like from the last two weeks below:
Grab ‘Em Right Away
Glee: The Complete Fist Season (Bluray)
Created by: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan
Cast: Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Finn Hudson, Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Jenna Ushkowitz, Naya Rivera & Heather Morris.
Why should you buy this? Because it’s without a doubt the best new TV show from last season. The show does take about three or so episodes to really hit its stride, but take the time necessary. Every cast member sports an amazing voice and even better comedic timing which is what makes the show work. Jane Lynch is perfect; she is unrelenting in her desire to best Will...
Grab ‘Em Right Away
Glee: The Complete Fist Season (Bluray)
Created by: Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk & Ian Brennan
Cast: Matthew Morrison, Jane Lynch, Dianna Agron, Chris Colfer, Jayma Mays, Kevin McHale, Lea Michele, Finn Hudson, Amber Riley, Mark Salling, Jenna Ushkowitz, Naya Rivera & Heather Morris.
Why should you buy this? Because it’s without a doubt the best new TV show from last season. The show does take about three or so episodes to really hit its stride, but take the time necessary. Every cast member sports an amazing voice and even better comedic timing which is what makes the show work. Jane Lynch is perfect; she is unrelenting in her desire to best Will...
- 9/23/2010
- by Andrew Robinson
- The Film Stage
The Movie
Werner Herzog's collaboration with David Lynch (who acted as producer for this movie) is a challenging watch - and sadly one doesn't feel like it yields much to even the most patient viewer. Inspired by the real-life matricide committed by troubled San Diego actor Mark Yavorsky, My Son stars wild-eyed Michael Shannon, with Yavorsky rechristened "Brad McCullum" and the part of his to-be-skewered mom played by Grace Zabriskie. The screenplay by Herzog and Herbert Golder seeks to draw a line between Brad's role in a production of the Oresteia the the compulsion to kill that later gripped him.
Shannon's performance lays bare the profound madness of Brad and is one of the only roles that comes across as natural. His behavior, his odd asides and broken pacing feel like a product of his madness. However the rest of the cast is tasked (intentionally by Mr. Herzog, it...
Werner Herzog's collaboration with David Lynch (who acted as producer for this movie) is a challenging watch - and sadly one doesn't feel like it yields much to even the most patient viewer. Inspired by the real-life matricide committed by troubled San Diego actor Mark Yavorsky, My Son stars wild-eyed Michael Shannon, with Yavorsky rechristened "Brad McCullum" and the part of his to-be-skewered mom played by Grace Zabriskie. The screenplay by Herzog and Herbert Golder seeks to draw a line between Brad's role in a production of the Oresteia the the compulsion to kill that later gripped him.
Shannon's performance lays bare the profound madness of Brad and is one of the only roles that comes across as natural. His behavior, his odd asides and broken pacing feel like a product of his madness. However the rest of the cast is tasked (intentionally by Mr. Herzog, it...
- 9/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
My Son DVD ArtDirector: Werner Herzog.
Writers: Herbert Golder and Werner Herzog.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? is a film from the production company Industrial Entertainment and distributors First Look Studios, which will release on DVD September 14. David Lynch acted as executive producer on the film, so there are several bizarre scenes and times of awkwardness. The film is based on the true story and life of murderer Mark Yavorsky, who killed his mother in a state of mental illness. Long, drawn out, and full of misadventures, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? is ten minutes of substance and eighty minutes of creative expression.
The plot is simple; a man in his thirties, living with his mother, is influenced and motivated by the Greek Tragedian Aesychlus' story entitled "The Libation Bearers." In this second story in a trilogy Orestes murders his mother in fit of vengance,...
Writers: Herbert Golder and Werner Herzog.
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? is a film from the production company Industrial Entertainment and distributors First Look Studios, which will release on DVD September 14. David Lynch acted as executive producer on the film, so there are several bizarre scenes and times of awkwardness. The film is based on the true story and life of murderer Mark Yavorsky, who killed his mother in a state of mental illness. Long, drawn out, and full of misadventures, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? is ten minutes of substance and eighty minutes of creative expression.
The plot is simple; a man in his thirties, living with his mother, is influenced and motivated by the Greek Tragedian Aesychlus' story entitled "The Libation Bearers." In this second story in a trilogy Orestes murders his mother in fit of vengance,...
- 9/10/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Written by: Herbert Golder, Werner Herzog
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Brad Dourif, Michael Shannon, Loretta Devine, Udo Kier, Michael Peña, Grace Zabriskie
Back in 1979, a young man named Mark Yavorsky was feeling rather down and out with the world. Yavorsky was a student of the University of San Diego, a star athlete, and had won awards for his acting at the university. Drama was the man's major as a grad student, and he had been recently cast in a prominent role in the campus rendition of Orestes, a Greek play about a young man who murders his mother with a sword in an act of brutal revenge.
Things appeared to be going well for Yavorsky, but the man was blue; so, he did what just about any of us would do. On June 10, 1979, Yavorsky marched across the street to a neighbor's home, where his elderly mother Mary Wathan was visiting,...
Written by: Herbert Golder, Werner Herzog
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Brad Dourif, Michael Shannon, Loretta Devine, Udo Kier, Michael Peña, Grace Zabriskie
Back in 1979, a young man named Mark Yavorsky was feeling rather down and out with the world. Yavorsky was a student of the University of San Diego, a star athlete, and had won awards for his acting at the university. Drama was the man's major as a grad student, and he had been recently cast in a prominent role in the campus rendition of Orestes, a Greek play about a young man who murders his mother with a sword in an act of brutal revenge.
Things appeared to be going well for Yavorsky, but the man was blue; so, he did what just about any of us would do. On June 10, 1979, Yavorsky marched across the street to a neighbor's home, where his elderly mother Mary Wathan was visiting,...
- 9/9/2010
- by Tristan Sinns
- Planet Fury
Year: 2009
Directors: Werner Herzog
Writers: Werner Herzog ^ Herbert Golder
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 8 out of 10
Ah, Werner! My old friend, so good to have you back again so soon! Herzog's latest since his more mainstream (but still very worthy) Bad Lieutenant remake / adaptation, is an extremely strange tale of a young man who holds-up in his suburban home after possibly committing a murder. The film opens with detectives Vargas and Havenhurst (Michael Pena and Willem Defoe) getting the call, arriving at the scene and trying to patch together exactly what Brad McCullum (Michael Shannon) has done, and who his mysterious 'hostages' are. They interview his fiancée, Ingrid (Chloe Sevingny) and the director of the Greek tragedy he was acting in, Meyers (Udo Kier), and through flashbacks and memories we are told the bizarre tale of Brad, and how he came to carry out a brutal act...
Directors: Werner Herzog
Writers: Werner Herzog ^ Herbert Golder
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 8 out of 10
Ah, Werner! My old friend, so good to have you back again so soon! Herzog's latest since his more mainstream (but still very worthy) Bad Lieutenant remake / adaptation, is an extremely strange tale of a young man who holds-up in his suburban home after possibly committing a murder. The film opens with detectives Vargas and Havenhurst (Michael Pena and Willem Defoe) getting the call, arriving at the scene and trying to patch together exactly what Brad McCullum (Michael Shannon) has done, and who his mysterious 'hostages' are. They interview his fiancée, Ingrid (Chloe Sevingny) and the director of the Greek tragedy he was acting in, Meyers (Udo Kier), and through flashbacks and memories we are told the bizarre tale of Brad, and how he came to carry out a brutal act...
- 6/23/2010
- QuietEarth.us
First Look Studios will also release My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done on DVD September 14, 2010 with Academy Award nominees Willem Dafoe (Antichrist), Michael Shannon (The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans), and Chloe Sevigny (The Killing Room) starring. The film had an official premiere at the Venice Film Festival and the film's story follows a theatre actor who slays his own mother after immersing himself in too deeply with the play's subject matter, Greek tragedy. Matricide is not uncommon in Greek tragedy nor is infaticide and suicide, but the material is fiction and not reality, or very loosely based on ancient myth. Have a watch of the trailer for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done until the film releases later this year.
The synopsis for the film here:
"My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is loosely based on the mysterious true crime...
The synopsis for the film here:
"My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is loosely based on the mysterious true crime...
- 6/3/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Chicago – When David Lynch came to Chicago for an “Inland Empire” screening back in 2007, he offered memorable advice to a moviegoer baffled by his work. He said that his audience should meditate not on the “intellectual experience” provided by his films, but the emotional ideas that they conjure. Meditating on anything else would prove useless because, as Lynch put it, “If you meditate on buttermilk, you’ll end up going to the dairy.”
Such advice may prove useful to adventurous moviegoers eager to get their minds warped by “My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,” a truly bizarre experiment forged by two of our greatest living filmmakers. It was executive produced by Lynch and directed by Werner Herzog as a sort of riff on Lynch’s work, while also delving into his own trademark obsessions. It’s as much a work of free association filmmaking as Lynch’s “Empire,...
Chicago – When David Lynch came to Chicago for an “Inland Empire” screening back in 2007, he offered memorable advice to a moviegoer baffled by his work. He said that his audience should meditate not on the “intellectual experience” provided by his films, but the emotional ideas that they conjure. Meditating on anything else would prove useless because, as Lynch put it, “If you meditate on buttermilk, you’ll end up going to the dairy.”
Such advice may prove useful to adventurous moviegoers eager to get their minds warped by “My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done,” a truly bizarre experiment forged by two of our greatest living filmmakers. It was executive produced by Lynch and directed by Werner Herzog as a sort of riff on Lynch’s work, while also delving into his own trademark obsessions. It’s as much a work of free association filmmaking as Lynch’s “Empire,...
- 4/14/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Werner Herzog's latest film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is already opening in a few theaters while his previous film, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, is still playing first-run houses. Who can explain the minds of film distributors. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done may benefit from the buzz of the other film and gain more interest than it deserves. The movie opens Friday at Alamo Ritz.
A psuedo-cop procedural smashed with a psychological drama, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is the tale of a murdered woman that turns into a standoff with her disturbed son. Werner Herzog wrote the screenplay with Herbert Golder, but it feels more like a partnership with Executive Producer David Lynch, right down to the casting of Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks, Inland Empire) as the murder victim.
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A psuedo-cop procedural smashed with a psychological drama, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is the tale of a murdered woman that turns into a standoff with her disturbed son. Werner Herzog wrote the screenplay with Herbert Golder, but it feels more like a partnership with Executive Producer David Lynch, right down to the casting of Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks, Inland Empire) as the murder victim.
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- 1/28/2010
- by Jenn Brown
- Slackerwood
Year: 2009
Directors: Werner Herzog
Writers: Herbert Golder, Werner Herzog
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 7.9 out of 10
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (hitherto called My Son) is a very strange little film. “Strange,” not in the sense of its content, but in the sense of its handling. “Little” in the sense of its simplicity. “Very” in the sense of I want you to see it.
My Son is a film loosely based on the life and criminal acts of Mark Yavorsky who one day walked across the street, took out a sword, and killed his mother. Then he walked home. And that was that. That’s the story. And that much we’re told within the first fifteen minutes of the film, so you can guess this work isn’t necessarily about plot development.
Herzog has referred to his approach to this film as “guerilla.
Directors: Werner Herzog
Writers: Herbert Golder, Werner Herzog
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Bob Doto
Rating: 7.9 out of 10
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (hitherto called My Son) is a very strange little film. “Strange,” not in the sense of its content, but in the sense of its handling. “Little” in the sense of its simplicity. “Very” in the sense of I want you to see it.
My Son is a film loosely based on the life and criminal acts of Mark Yavorsky who one day walked across the street, took out a sword, and killed his mother. Then he walked home. And that was that. That’s the story. And that much we’re told within the first fifteen minutes of the film, so you can guess this work isn’t necessarily about plot development.
Herzog has referred to his approach to this film as “guerilla.
- 12/29/2009
- QuietEarth.us
With Werner Herzog’s quickie neo-noir My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done coming along so soon after his flipped-out rendition of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, longtime Herzog fans may well wonder whether the grizzled German director is hiding some odd ulterior motive. Produced by David Lynch and written by Herbert Golder, My Son stars Michael Shannon as an unhinged free spirit and part-time actor who kills his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and takes hostages to keep homicide detective Willem Dafoe at bay. The movie follows Dafoe as he interviews witnesses (such as Shannon’s girlfriend, Chloë Sevigny) in ...
- 12/10/2009
- avclub.com
A whole boatload of awesome is on display in the first trailer for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done , a psychological thriller from director Werner Herzog. This one's produced by executive produced and "presented" by David Lynch and is based on the true story of a man in San Diego who went off the deep end and stabbed his mother with a sword. As you'll see in the trailer, it looks like Herzog and co-writer Herbert Golder delve into the "why?" of it all...and it looks pretty surreal. Michael Shannon, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny and Brad Dourif star. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- 8/18/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
B-d reader 'kokaine' sent us a link to Paperstreet Films' official website where they have a long synopsis and teaser art for their forthcoming production of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, which is to be directed by Werner Herzog from his own screenplay co-written by Herbert Golder. The film stars Michael Shannon (Bug), Willem Dafoe (American Psycho, Spider-man), Chloe Sevigny (American Psycho, Zodiac), Brad Dourif (Child's Play), Michael Pena, Bill Cobbs, Grace Zabriskie and Udo Kier (Suspiria). Based on a harrowing true story The film opens as officers arrive at the scene a typical middle-class neighborhood in San Diego. The suspect has barricaded himself inside a home and appears to have taken hostages. Two friends he had urgently telephoned earlier that morning arrive, but too late... More...
- 4/8/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
Last week it was announced that Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny would be starring in the David Lynch producer thriller My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, which will be directed by Werner Herzog. Today Variety added another batch of big names including Brad Dourif, Michael Pena, Bill Cobbs, Grace Zabriskie and Udo Kier who will all star in the psychological thriller that is loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who murdered his own mother with his sword. The project marks the first time Herzog and Lynch have worked together. Herzog will direct the project, which he co-wrote with Herbert Golder, while Lynch will exec producer. Principal photography is set to start in March.
- 2/8/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Minnesota Public Radio is reporting that Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Bug, Dead Birds) is now in Puru starring alongside Herbert Golder in Werner Herzog's My SOn, My Son, What Have Ye Done, which is being produced by David Lynch. My Son is loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is now underway.
- 1/28/2009
- bloody-disgusting.com
Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon ( Revolutionary Road ) is working with director Werner Herzog and executive producer David Lynch on the horror film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done , a picture announced early last year . According to Entertainment Weekly, Shannon is playing the lead, a San Diego man "who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword." Shooting is expected to begin in Peru from a script by Herzog and Herbert Golder. Shannon has appeared in Dead Birds , Bug and World Trade Center . Reports in December also say Udo Kier and Willem Dafoe will co-star.
- 1/27/2009
- shocktillyoudrop.com
CANNES -- Werner Herzog and David Lynch are teaming for My Son, My Son, a horror-tinged murder drama based on a true story.
Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote Son, loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March.
In a separate development, Lynch's Absurda production company has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical gangster movie King Shot.
Marilyn Manson is touted to appear as a prophet in the Sin City-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.
Lynch is executive producing both projects, and Absurda is repping their sales rights in the Cannes market.
Herzog and his longtime assistant director Herbert Golder co-wrote Son, loosely based on the true story of a San Diego man who acts out a Sophocles play in his mind and kills his mother with a sword. The low-budget feature will flash back and forth from the murder scene to the disturbed man's story. A guerrilla-style digital video shoot on Coronado Island is tentatively set for March.
In a separate development, Lynch's Absurda production company has attached Asia Argento and Udo Kier to star with Nick Nolte in Alejandro Jodorowsky's metaphysical gangster movie King Shot.
Marilyn Manson is touted to appear as a prophet in the Sin City-style film, which producer Eric Bassett said has enough sex and violence to guarantee an NC-17 rating.
Lynch is executive producing both projects, and Absurda is repping their sales rights in the Cannes market.
- 5/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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