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

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

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.

'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;