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

18 October 2011 Tuesday HONK Report

Honk* Report :

- Met with guest star for the upcoming Herzog (Ep #4)
- Sent a selection from latest promotional headshot shoot to the printer and picked up to deliver to agents for selection
-Recorded 2 pieces of ADR "falling screams & collapsing / hitting the ground noises" for video sketch that Titled Sketch Project filmed until late last Sunday night on LA's Westside
-Rec'd new notes from member of the Herzog writing team
-Lots of driving and cars honking


Upcoming: attending a Union members' meeting
-filming the fourth installment of our ongoing Bizarro HERZOG chronicles on 10.20.11 (The day after tomorrow).


:)

*For the proper contextual definition of a HONK please see this essay [broken link] by CarlKingCreative (now CarlKingdom) . com .

Werner Herzog’s plans to recreate the Chauvet Caves in France…outside of the caves.

I can't even make this stuff up anymore:

(click here to see the video series in which I play Herzog)

There is a plan to re-create the cave outside in some sort of what I called the Disneyland version. Since nobody’s going to be allowed in the cave, they will replicate the entire cave. They’ll replicate the paintings on the walls. And there was even a plan to re-create, in our imagination, the scent inside of the cave. Which means maybe some carrion of rotting cave bears, some fire, some … resins. I’ve found a master perfumer who fantasize[s] wildly about how the odor may have been 32,000 years ago. However, when you are entering there, it is slightly humid. There’s no significant traces of any smell of anything significant in there.

— Werner Herzog’s plans to recreate the Chauvet Caves in France…outside of the caves.

(via nprfreshair)

For more, see the 'Interview Highlights section here: http://www.npr.org/2011/04/20/135516812/herzog-enters-the-cave-of-forgotten-dreams

-WM

NY / Tribeca Screening Is Today for our Finalist Entry in the IFC Independent Pilot Competition @ 2010 New York Television Festival (NYTVF)

Your ticket stub also gets you free Stella Artois at the lounge of the theater following the screening....I was just told!

I'll be there tonight to do the screening and the Q&A afterwards. I leave tomorrow morning back to the West Coast: director John Webb will take over our NY duties from there, including our 2nd screening tomorrow night at 6:30.

Tickets & Info here: tickets still still available!

(http://www.thefestguide.com/nytvf2010/Cooking_With_Werner.html)

(Facebook Event Page)

(NYTVF Website & Facebook)

Hope to see you.

-W.M.

/w.h.

http://www.WernerHerzogEatsTheWorld.com

Other's People Money opens in Bay Area, Werner Herzog Web Series is Finalist at 2010 New York Television Festival (NYTVF)

Will plays the lead role of Lawrence Garfinkle in the Masquers Playhouse production of Jerry Sterner's "OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY", directed by Robert Estes. Here is the first review sent out, pretty nice piece: Other People's Money at the Masquers Reviewed by Theresa de Valence.

Show runs weekends until October 2. Tickets available through theater's website: http://masquers.org .

Also exciting, The Adventures of Werner Herzog webseries ("Cooking With Werner") is one of 30 finalist for a $25,000 TV development deal with the Independent Film Channel (IFC) at the 2010 New York Television Festival, 20 - 25 Septermber 2010. Will Maier & director John Webb will be there for the screenings & Q & A.

Festival Website:
http://www.nytvf.com/2010_ipc_selections.htm

2010 NYTVF Herzog Trailer for IFC Competion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYZHH3D8VMc

We'll re-post the festival screening information when it's released early next week.

[ link to the show's Facebook]

New Film In The Werner Herzog Series Currently On Front Page Of FunnyOrDie.com

The 3rd installment of our "Werner Herzog Eats-The-World" short film series, in which I portray the slightly eccentric and perhaps utterly bizarre German film director Werner Herzog (GRIZZLY MAN, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD), has premiered on the front page of FunnyOrDie.COM.

"Speed Dating With Werner Herzog (And Special Guest, Björk)" was filmed last November in Los Angeles on a small budget, and like its two predecessors concerns the adventures of a fictionalized younger incarnation of the award winning filmmaker, based on events and quotations taken from his real life. We follow Werner once again on a search for epic discovery, this time toinvestigate the current manifestation of man's quest for love". Fitting that the short had it's FOD featured debut on Valentine's Day.

Also available on YOUTUBE as of yesterday.

Thanks go to Josh Simpson and the FunnyOrDie staff, director/co-writer John Webb, producer Garth Mueller, and the entire cast & crew, without whom this film would not have been possible.

Please click on / vote "Funny" if you liked it.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/b40462761f/speed-dating-with-werner


http://wernerherzogeatstheworld.com

http://www.sandwichfilms.net

-W.


Additional Note:
An extended cut of the episode is now up at director John Webb's Youtube account. It's about three minutes longer than the version that debuted on FunnyOrDie & shows off more of the excellent improvisational talents of the actors who portrayed Werner's ill-matched speed dating companions, as well as Heather Anne Campbell's inspired take as Bjork--a vivid portrayal that she recreates here, having originally brought it to life quite memorably as a member of the Groundlings Sunday Company. To all the actors who made room in their schedules in order to lend their talents to the film (and on short notice), I owe a considerable amount of gratitude. Their names and those of the whole cast & crew can be found just below the video player on this FunnyOrDie page.

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:



;WM

'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.