WERNER HERZOG vs. DAVID LYNCH

EXTREME DUPLEX MAKEOVER with WERNER HERZOG AND DAVID LYNCH is now online in two versions!

...A 5-minute version on FunnyOrDie: www.funnyordie.com/videos/548a7ed25c/extreme-duplex-makeo...

...And for the "truly-insane", a 9 minute-plus version on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5Zjm4kMus

Danke und Tschüß!

-Will
http://WernerHerzogEatsTheWorld.com

The Onion A.V. Club Review of "Cooking With Werner" At NYTVF

(Note: Seeing this pop up on the web after I got home was so awesome: I can seriously almost retire now... almost.)

[From http://www.avclub.com/articles/new-york-television-festival-day-3-everybody-hates,45515/ ]

Cooking With Werner
Creators/Point of origin/Running time: John Webb, William Maier, and Garth Mueller/Los Angeles/seven minutes
Cast: William Maier, Scott Rodgers, Gian Molina
Program: Comedy
Headline: Finally, a show Scott Tobias will laugh at!
Todd's take: Cooking With Werner has a one-joke premise. Fortunately, it's a very funny joke. In it, acclaimed director Werner Herzog (Maier) decides to host a cooking show, wherein he tries to bring his dish closer to the truths of eternity by finding just the right honey. His special guest? Well, that would be Jim Jarmusch (Rodgers). Cooking With Werner sends Herzog on a quest to Peru to get just the right honey, and while I have no idea how this would be a series (Maier suggests Herzog can and will host several different types of TV shows every week), I like how incredibly, incredibly weird it is. Maier's impression is spot-on, the jokes are all surreal, an advertisement for beer crowds the screen at inopportune moments, and a laugh track punctuates essentially dramatic moments. This is TV made for a very specific audience, but I'm pretty sure I'm in that audience. The only reason I didn't laugh as hard as I did at some other things was because it was so short. (But I'm definitely tuning in for a future episode Maier pitched wherein Klaus Kinski returns from the dead to terrify and host an automotive repair program with Herzog.) Grade: B+
Network this is perfect for: I honestly don't know. It may be too out there even for Adult Swim. I just want someone to pick this up and put it on at 3 in the morning, so everyone up at that point will wonder what the hell is going on.

Paste Magazine Review of our Werner Herzog Videos

Paste Magazine had this to say about out Werner Herzog Cooking Show video:

"Even the most serious film scholar can agree: film auteur and self-proclaimed poet Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, a remake of Nosferatu) is ripe for satire. The larger-than-life director is occasionally shot by snipers in L.A., an occurrence which he deems "insignificant," and "part of the folklore in Los Angeles - nothing really that serious." He has waged "holy war" on television and describes his work as a quest for "ecstatic art."
Frankly, it's amazing people don't spoof the director more often. Swooping in to fill the niche are the creators of "Cooking with Werner" at WernerHerzogEatsTheWorld.com. In it, Werner Herzog hosts a cooking show with special guest filmmaker Jim Jarmusch that culminates in a quest for ecstatically truthful honey made by killer bees, for which he is jailed by a Peruvian junta that mistakes him for Martin Scorcese.

The Herzog-devoted skit is directed by Emmy Award-winning director and screenwriter John Webb and produced through Sandwich Films. Also on the website is another skit entitled "Auto Maintenance with Werner" in which Herzog chases actor Klaus Kinski after Kinski shoots him with an air rifle. But really nothing is better than watching Herzog impersonator Will Maier cook the most pretentious grilled cheese sandwich ever made, on a cooking TV show set with a laugh-track in the background."

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/09/even-the-most-serious-film.html

Also, IMDB just added it to its "Hit List" on Friday:



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'Cooking With Werner' coverage: FunnyorDie Front Page Today, Mental_Floss, IFC, etc.

The first installment of our Werner Herzog series, "Cooking With Werner", was featured today on the front page of Funnyordie.com. Thanks to all who made that possible. You can view part one here: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c383c32fff/cooking-with-werner-part-1-of-2

Also today, we got a nice write-up on Mental_Floss' website: thanks to Chris Higgins for that. You can read it: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/31441

IFC blogged about a slightly different version of the short a little while ago: http://www.ifc.com/blogs/indie-eye/2009/07/fortified-with-philosophy.php

If you are new to the world of Werner Herzog, here are some facts on the real article to catch you up: http://www.wernerherzogeatstheworld.com/Reel%20Herzog.html

Also his website: http://www.wernerherzog.com/

Thanks to Scott Rodgers and Gian Molina for lending their talents, as well as our fearless Peruvian Junta members, make-up artist Claire Merriman, Music Composer Carl King (http://www.carlkingcreative.com), DP Paul Mayne (http://www.paulmaynedp.com), Producer Garth Mueller, and Director John Webb (http://sandwichfilms.net) , one of my favorite collaborators over the years.

If anyone sees the real Herzog out there, please give him a high-5.

Stay tuned for further adventures. Danke schon.

W;

Werner Herzog's New Cooking Show [video]

You all may know Werner Herzog for his groundbreaking maverick films and documentaries on bears, madmen, and Antarctica . . . but did you know that he once hosted a cooking show?

"Cooking With Werner"--with Special Guest Jim Jarmusch.

Stars William Maier, Scott Rodgers, and Gian Molina.
Directed by John Webb. Shot by Paul Mayne.

Cooking With Werner Part 1: http://funnyordie.com/videos/c383c32fff/
Cooking With Werner Part 2: http://funnyordie.com/videos/c413df14ac/

Digg this video: http://digg.com/d3zWj0 or http://digg.com/comedy/Werner_Herzog_Cooking_Show_Part_1_of_2

Please tell all of your freunden. Danke schon.

W.