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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer Movies

Posted by at March 10, 2024

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist.

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The Criterion Collection - Werner Herzog Eats his Shoe (1980) Movies

Posted by notbanned at July 31, 2018

Having arrived at Berkeley to host the premier of Errol Morris' Gates of Heaven, Werner Herzog removes his shoes, places them in a pot with garlic and other herbs, and walks barefoot to a shoe store. If this seems bizarre, it is only because you may not be familiar with the legendary exploits of the ridiculously ambitious German director. Herzog's career includes several uniquely bizarre anecdotes, and has resulted in unexpected fatalities (on the set of Fitzcarraldo), a promissory leap into a cactus patch (after wrapping Even Dwarfs Started Small, and for which he still has spines lodged in his knee), and the mutual death threats exchanged with frequent collaborator Klaus Kinski.

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God Movies

Posted by at Dec. 5, 2024

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

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The Act of Killing Movies

Posted by at Oct. 14, 2024

The Act of Killing (2012)
Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime.

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Grizzly Man Movies

Posted by at June 18, 2024

Grizzly Man (2005)
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in one man's attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

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Steven Isserlis - Tavener: No Longer Mourn for Me & Other Works for Cello (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at July 28, 2023

Steven Isserlis, Omer Meir Wellber, Philharmonia Orchestra, Matthew Rose & Abi Sampa - Tavener: No Longer Mourn for Me & Other Works for Cello (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 71:59 minutes | 1,13 GB
Classical | Label: Hyperion Records, Official Digital Download

An important release which again demonstrates Steven Isserlis’s deep commitment to the music of John Tavener. The realization of the album is movingly detailed in a booklet note which provides an eloquent counterpoint and commentary to the performances.

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Land of Look Behind Movies

Posted by at May 11, 2023

Land of Look Behind (1982)
There has never been a documentary like "Land of Look Behind". Relatively unknown due to poor distribution and New York Film Festival skullduggery, this breathtaking film presents a unique epic vision with quasi-dramatic elements and cinematographic wizardry. The non-reggae original soundtrack is outstanding, as is the reggae music of Bob Marley and Gregory Isaacs. The great documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog has called "Look Behind" the non-fiction film that has influenced him most over the last fifteen years. Indeed, this film's peers are the best of Herzog, Bunuel's "Land Without Bread", Flaherty's "Nanook" and Leacock-Pennebaker's "Louisiana Story". With thoughtful viewing, one will see this moving documentary actually end with a lovely little dream sequence. No American has come close to making a film this ingenious in the last thirty years.

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Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 26, 2019

Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (2019)
CD FLAC (tracks) - 820 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 311 Mb | 02:15:49
Progressive Rock, Metal | Label: Moderbolaget Records, Nuclear Blast

Sweden’s OPETH are preparing to release their most important record to date with »In Cauda Venenum«. Certainly, fans and critics will have their opinion, but few records in the Swedes’ oeuvre are as engaging, delicate, panoramic, intense, and musical as OPETH’s lucky thirteenth. Sporting a clever Travis Smith cover – replete with inside jokes and a nod to KING DIAMOND – a masterful Park Studios (The Hellacopters, Graveyard) production, OPETH’s usual five-star musicianship, and lyrics entirely in Swedish, »In Cauda Venenum« raises the bar markedly. While a record in Swedish is a first—there’s also an English version—for frontman and founding member Mikael Åkerfeldt, the 10 songs on offer feel and sound completely natural. As if years of listening to and being a fan of Swedish rock and hard rock has paid off. In a way, Opeth have come home. But the Swedish lyrics of the primary edition of »In Cauda Venenum« shouldn’t distract from the quality presented in OPETH’s new songs, the lot of which sneak up and take control after repeated listens. »In Cauda Venenum« is like that, tricky in its complicated simplicity, resourceful in its ability to charm with delightful if wistful melodies. Really, it’s just OPETH being OPETH.

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Popol Vuh - Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999 (2011) Music

Posted by Rtax at April 9, 2024

Popol Vuh - Revisited & Remixed 1970-1999 (2011)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 736 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 348 MB
2:32:17 | Folk Rock, Soundtrack, Prog Rock, Ambient | Label: SPV Recordings

Popol Vuh were one of the first Krautrock bands to turn their focus – thanks to their late founder, lone constant member, and musical director, Florian Fricke – to ambient music (a full half-decade before Eno called it that) and ethnic fusions of various sorts. They released almost two dozen albums, scored a handful of films by Werner Herzog – including Nosferatu and Aguirre, Wrath of God – and continually experimented with form, tone, context, and format. A decade after Fricke's death, the German SPV imprint celebrates his legacy with this double-disc set. The first features a smattering of Popol Vuh tunes from throughout their tenure. It makes for compelling listening despite an apparent paradox: Fricke and company conceived of recordings as albums (as well as scores), so hearing tracks placed outside that context would – theoretically at least – be an erratic listening exercise. It's not. In fact, it's sequenced beautifully.

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Siegfried Wagner - Staatsphilharmonie RP / Albert - Complete Ouvertures Vol. 1 (1994, CPO # 999 003-2) [RE-UP] Music

Posted by luckburz at March 11, 2017

Siegfried Wagner - Complete Overtures Vol. 1
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz / Werner Andreas Albert
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 252 MB | Full Artwork: 128 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: CPO # 999 003-2 | Country/Year: Germany 1994
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Early 20th Century

Siegfried Wagner had the best musical pedigree that a composer could conceivably have: the son of Richard Wagner and the grandson of Franz Liszt (through Liszt's daughter Cosima). His ancestry proved to be a decidedly mixed blessing, however, as the younger Wagner – despite working in a different musical era – was never fully able to step outside of the long shadow cast by his father, even as he engendered the jealousy of musical rivals. (…) Following Siegfried Wagner's death, the family did its best to suppress performances of his music, casting its lot with the more popular and profitable works of Richard Wagner, and it was only with lapsing of various copyrights, and the formation of the Siegfried Wagner Society in 1972, that his music was made available again, first in concert editions and more recently in full performances.

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