Werner Herzog: On Location

A selection of images from the British Film Institute

On the set of Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Credit: © Werner Herzog Film GmbH. Courtesy Collection Deutsche Kinemathek

On the set of Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Credit: © Werner Herzog Film GmbH. Courtesy Collection Deutsche Kinemathek

On the set of Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Credit: © Werner Herzog Film GmbH. Courtesy Collection Deutsche Kinemathek

On the set of Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
Credit: © Werner Herzog Film GmbH. Courtesy Collection Deutsche Kinemathek

From BFI: ‘Rare images of Werner Herzog in production on some of his greatest films, courtesy of the Werner Herzog Collection held by Deutsche Kinemathek.’ [Read More]

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Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Werner Herzog: From One Second to the Next
• The Talks: Interview with Werner Herzog
• Hari Kunzru on Werner Herzog
• Werner Herzog on Death, Danger and the Abyss
• Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Werner Herzog: From One Second to the Next

Filmmaker helms documentary on the dangers of texting while driving

From Daniel Miller (Los Angeles Times):

Director Werner Herzog's sobering new documentary short, "From One Second to the Next," is a hit on the Internet.

The 35-minute film, a cautionary look at the dangers of texting while driving, has racked up nearly 1.75 million views on YouTube since it debuted Aug. 8.

The movie, made in partnership by wireless carriers AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and Sprint, is at times gut-wrenching in its depiction of lives irrevocably changed by accidents related to drivers who were texting on their mobile phones. [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• The Talks: Interview with Werner Herzog
• Hari Kunzru on Werner Herzog
• Werner Herzog on Death, Danger and the Abyss
• Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man
• Werner Herzog speaks to Time Magazine
• Will Self on Werner Herzog
• Hari Kunzru on Krasznahorkai's Hipster following

The Talks: Interview with Werner Herzog

German filmmaker on blockbusters, lifestyle and the apocalypse

Werner Herzog

From The Talks:

Mr. Herzog, do you think someone would ever be crazy enough to hire you to direct an epic blockbuster?

It wouldn’t be crazy at all, because I am capable of producing huge films for a fraction of the money that Hollywood would spend. A big epic film like Aguirre, the Wrath of God, if Hollywood started to contemplate this film, they wouldn’t think under 50 million dollars. That is the scope, no one would dare to touch it. However, the grand total budget of the film was 360,000 dollars, at the time in 1970. Let’s just say that today it would be twice as much, let’s say 700 or 800 thousand dollars.

Would you say that you are more popular today than you’ve ever been before?

I don’t know. I can’t really judge, because I do not relate to things such as popularity. It is completely vague and unknown to me what it means. I still live basically the same life. I do not have and I do not need material things. My material world is extremely small and limited. [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Hari Kunzru on Werner Herzog
• Werner Herzog on Death, Danger and the Abyss
• Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man
• Werner Herzog speaks to Time Magazine
• Will Self on Werner Herzog
• Hari Kunzru on Krasznahorkai's Hipster following

Notes on Thomas Bernhard's Correction

Edwin Turner presents his reflections on Bernhard's novel

Thomas Bernhard

Edwin Turner (Biblioklept) presents 'Three Notes on Thomas Bernhard’s Novel Correction (Plot, Prose, and a Riff)'. Here is a snippet:

Correction reminded me often of Poe’s story “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

Correction reminded me often of W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz, although Correction obviously came first, and Sebald clearly cited Bernhard as an influence.

At some of its rantier points, Correction reminded me of Notes from Underground. [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Writers: Thomas Bernhard
• Thomas Bernhard: Graphic Essay
• Thomas Bernhard: Playing cards
• Reading Thomas Bernhard

Herzog: 'The Birds Don't Sing, They Screech in Pain'

Interview with Werner Herzog recorded for Burden of Dreams (1982)

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Conquest of the Useless: Werner Herzog on Fitzcarraldo
• Werner Herzog on Death, Danger and the Abyss
• Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man
• Werner Herzog speaks to Time Magazine
• Will Self on Werner Herzog
• Hari Kunzru on Werner Herzog

Hari Kunzru on Werner Herzog

An article from Hazlitt

Werner Herzog

Hari Kunzru on the German filmmaker Werner Herzog (via 3:AM Magazine): 'Few film directors seem as directly present in their work as Werner Herzog. Not only does he have an instantly-recognizable aesthetic, but unlike most European auteurs of his generation, he has become a familiar face in front of the camera. We are so accustomed to seeing him—playing football with Peruvian indians, arguing with Klaus Kinski, eating his own shoe at Chez Panisse—that we might mistake him for just another "personality," one of the celebrities who parade past at various scales, from cellphone to Times Square, on our screens. Directors are required to be showmen, particularly directors of documentaries, who always have to hustle to finance and screen their work. But Herzog’s presence, his insistence on being in the middle of things, is something more like an artistic strategy—which is to say it’s the very opposite of a strategy, unless it’s possible to be both strategic and uncalculated, canny and impulsive at the same time.' [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Werner Herzog on Death, Danger and the Abyss
• Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man
• Werner Herzog speaks to Time Magazine
• Will Self on Werner Herzog
• Hari Kunzru on Krasznahorkai's Hipster following

Roger Ebert on Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo

American film critic reflects on the subtleties of Hitchcock's 1958 film

A still from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958)

Film critic Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) reflects on the news that Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has displaced Citizen Kane as the BFI's Greatest Film Ever Made (thanks to Michael John Goodman for the link): 'The king is dead. Long live the king. Welles' "Citizen Kane" has been dethroned from the Sight & Sound list of the greatest films of all time, and replaced by Hitchcock's "Vertigo." It's not as if nobody saw this coming. The list first appeared in 1952, and "Vertigo" (1958) made the list for the first time only in 1982. Climbing slowly, it placed five votes behind "Kane" in 2002. Although many moviegoers would probably rank "Psycho" or maybe "North by Northwest" as Hitch's best, for S&S types his film to beat was "Notorious" (1947). That's the one I voted for until I went through "Vertigo" a shot at a time at the University of Virginia, became persuaded of its greatness, and put it on my 2002 list.' [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Vertigo tops BFI's 50 Greatest Films Ever Made
• Kim Novak remembers Vertigo
• Martin Scorsese on Hitchcock's Vertigo
• Costume and Identity in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
• Saul Bass and Alfred Hitchcock

Werner Herzog on Death, Danger and the Abyss

Steve Rose talks to Werner Herzog about a new documentary on capital punishment

Werner Herzog on the cover of The Guardian's weekend supplement, The Guide, 14 April 2012

In a fascinating interview for The Guardian, Steve Rose talks to filmmaker Werner Herzog about his new documentary, Into The Abyss: A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life. Herzog describes his approach to documentary filmmaking, his position on capital punishment, and the myths that have come to surround his name (link via Susan Tomaselli):

Some years ago, Werner Herzog was on an internal flight somewhere in Colorado and the plane's landing gear wouldn't come down. They would have to make an emergency landing. The runway was covered in foam and flanked by scores of fire engines. "We were ordered to crouch down with our faces on our knees and hold our legs," says Herzog, "and I refused to do it." The stewardess was very upset, the co-pilot came out from the cabin and ordered him to do as he was told. "I said, 'If we perish I want to see what's coming at me, and if we survive, I want to see it as well. I'm not posing a danger to anyone by not being in this shitty, undignified position.'" In the end, the plane landed normally. Herzog was banned from the airline for life but, he laughs, it went bust two years later anyway.Herzog tells this story to illustrate how he'll face anything that's thrown at him, as if that was ever in any doubt. Now approaching his 70th birthday, the German film-maker has assumed legendary status for facing things others wouldn't. He's lived a life packed with intrepid movie shoots, far-flung locations and general high-stakes film-making. He has a biography too dense to summarise. But his tale also confirms the suspicion that he's helplessly drawn to danger and death. Or vice versa. [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Werner Herzog Interview: Into the Abyss
• Conquest of the Useless: Werner Herzog on Fitzcarraldo
• Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man
• Werner Herzog speaks to Time Magazine
• Will Self on Werner Herzog

David Lynch: Director of Dreams?

'He shows us the strangest damn things.'

Laura Harring and Naomi Watts as Rita and Betty in Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Nicholas Lezard asks why the films and television shows of David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks) exercise such a lasting grip on our imaginations: '[...] we are unsure what is dream and what is reality. This is at least the most consistently abiding characteristic of dreams when we are experiencing them, and in his book Lynch on Lynch, in which the director talks engagingly, if not always revealingly, about his work, Chris Rodley (who edited the book) puts it very well: that the borderland between dream and reality in his work (although he's specifically talking about Mulholland Dr.) is "a badly guarded checkpoint where no one seems to be stamping passports".' [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• David Lynch on Music, Ideas and Brutality
• David Lynch, Works on Paper
• David Lynch in Paris
• Inside David Lynch's Club Silencio, Paris
• Is David Lynch Retiring from Film?
• Will Self Interviews David Lynch

Werner Herzog Interview: Into the Abyss

Werner Herzog on Truman Capote, violent crimes and capital punishment

Andrew Goldman interviews Werner Herzog in the New York Times about Into the Abyss, a new documentary film exploring capital punishment in the United States [Read More]

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Conquest of the Useless: Werner Herzog on Fitzcarraldo
• Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man
• Werner Herzog speaks to Time Magazine
• Will Self on Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog, The Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Bavarian director discusses his new documentary on NPR

Click here to hear the interview. (Link via Biblioklept.)

Disjecta: This week's links

Your guide to this week's best cultural links

Franz Kafka, The Sons (Schocken).
Design: Peter Mendelsund.

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: This week's Ends and Odds over at Samuel Beckett: Debts & Legacies
Patti Smith on Virginia Woolf
Stanley Fish: Adam Haslett reviews critic's new book, How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One
William Burroughs' Home Movies: Features Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others
Phillip Pullman: Call to defend libraries resounds around web
James Joyce reads Finnegans Wake
James Joyce: Ulysses, illustrated with historical documents and photographs
James Joyce: Frank Callanan on the political attitudes of Ireland's high modernist
J. D. Salinger's Private Passions
Can Literature be Philosophical? James Ryerson on the philosophical novel
Writers Obsessed with Writers
Margaret Atwood: A new collection of scholarly articles exploring Atwood's work
Joseph Conrad: Phil Mongredien on Joseph Conrad's classic novel of postcolonial corruption
W. G. Sebald: W. G. Sebald turned a walk through Suffolk into an extraordinary book. As a film inspired by the work is premiered, Stuart Jeffries retraces his steps

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Susie Orbach: Orbach talks about bodies (podcast)
Continental Philosophy Bulletin Board: A crisp new design
Roland Barthes: Lori Soderlind reviews Barthes' Mourning Diary in the New York Times

Film:

Werner Herzog: In Conversation, New York, March 23rd, 2011

Art, Design & Photography

Franz Kafka: Peter Mendelsund shares his passion for Kafka, and some forthcoming designs to be released by Schocken
Joyce Carol Oates: Story of photographer Jane Yarborough Creech, whose work is featured on recent Oates memoir
Joris Karl Huysmans: À Rebours illustrated

Thank you to all link contributions, which can be found on the A Piece of Monologue Twitter page.

Disjecta: This week's links

Your guide to this week's best cultural links

Philip Roth. Photograph: Steve Pyke.

Literature:

Samuel Beckett: The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume 2, 1941–1956 will be published by Cambridge University Press in August 2011
Samuel Beckett: Lois Overbeck to speak at the Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive conference in York, June 2011
James Joyce: This week, Frank DeLaney's podcast readings of Ulysses find Stephen discussing Shakespeare's Hamlet
Joseph Conrad: 3:AM Magazine reviews graphic novel adaptation of Heart of Darkness
Philip Roth: Elaine Showalter compares Roth's new novel, Nemesis, with Albert Camus' The Plague
Philip Roth: Nemesis gets The Complete Review treatment
Tom McCarthy: Jen Craig reads C, and asks whether McCarthy really is a modernist writer
Paul Celan: Translating Celan Conference, London, 23 November 2010
William S. Burroughs: Oliver Harris on re-editing the first trilogy (Junky, Queer, The Yage Letters)
Harvard University Press: Spring Catalogue 2011
HTML Giant launches literary magazine club
Indie Literary Sites start coming of age
Spike Magazine: The Book (Free PDF download)

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

History of Philosophy Podcast: Based at King's College, London
Socrates - a man for our times

Film:

Werner Herzog: A selection of documentaries to be shown at DocNYC.
Werner Herzog: The Guardian's Jonathan Jones on Herzog as performance artist
Blade Runner: The Guardian profiles Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece as part of its ongoing film season

Etc.

Melvyn Bragg: Discussions from radio programme In Our Time published in a new collection

Thank you to all link contributors, who can be found on the A Piece of Monologue Twitter page.

Werner Herzog: Festival Pick at DocNYC

New York’s Documentary Festival
3-9 November 2010

Werner Herzog, while filming Cave of Forgotten Dreams

To take place at the IFC Center 323 Sixth Ave., New York, NY 10014
NYU-SCPS: Kimmel Center incl. Skirball, 60 Washington Sq.S.

Festival Selection: Werner Herzog

Land of Silence and Darkness
Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 1971
Section of Festival: Spotlight, Werner Herzog
In the book Herzog on Herzog, the director says, “Land of Silence and Darkness is a film particularly close to my heart. If I had not have made it there would be a great gap in my existence.” [Read more]

Wings of Hope
Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 1999
Section of Festival: Spotlight, Werner Herzog
In 1971, a plane came apart over the Peruvian jungle close to where Werner Herzog was filming Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The only survivor from nearly 100 passengers was Juliane Kopcke [Read more]

My Best Fiend
Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 1999
Section of Festival: Spotlight, Werner Herzog
In this personal essay film, Werner Herzog reflects on his friendship with the tempestuous actor Klaus Kinski whose memorable collaborations with the director include Aguirre, Nosferatu, Woyzeck and Fitzcarraldo. [Read more]

In Conversation with Werner Herzog
Director: Werner Herzog
Section of Festival: Spotlight, Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog is one of the great storytellers of our time, not only in films such as Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, but in general conversation. [Read more]

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (presented in 3D)
Director: Werner Herzog
Year: 2010
Section of Festival: Gala, Spotlight, Werner Herzog
Opening night gala: Wed. Nov. 3, 2010 – 7pm (NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts). [Read more]

Useful Links:

• New York's Documentary Festival: Werner Herzog
• International Committee for Preservation of Lascaux: Prehistoric Paintings in Danger

Also at A Piece of Monologue:

• Conquest of the Useless: Werner Herzog on Fitzcarraldo
• Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man
• Werner Herzog speaks to Time Magazine
• Bruno Schleinstein 1932-2010

Disjecta: This week's links

Your guide to this week's best cultural links

Harrison Ford in Blade Runner (1982)

Literature:

Thomas Bernhard: How does Bernhard invert the European novel of ideas?
Thomas Bernhard's gravesite
Lee Rourke: Interview with the author of The Canal, including references to Beckett and Derrida
Graham Greene: Gabriel Josipovici on Greene's family history
Gabriel Josipovici: New novel, Only Joking, now available from publishers
Product Placement in 19th Century Novels

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Maurice Blanchot and Samuel Beckett: Mark Kerstetter on Blanchot, Beckett and the Work
Roland Barthes: Online podcast exploring the influence of his mother's death on his writing 
Hélène Cixous: The Quarterly Conversation profiles the contemporary French thinker

Film & Television:

Blade Runner: Douglas Trumbull on the landscape of Los Angeles, 2019
Blade Runner: Distinctive fan tribute by François Vautier
David Lynch: Guest editor of Wallpaper*
Werner Herzog and David Lynch: Photographs from the production of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done.
Fiona Shaw: Interview with BBC's Five Minutes With..., includes Shaw's technique for memorizing T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Art, Design & Photography:

Damien Hirst: plagiarist?

Thank you to all link contributors, who can be found on the A Piece of Monologue Twitter page.

Bruno Schleinstein 1932-2010

Bruno S., star of Herzog's Stroszek and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser dies, aged 78

Bruno Schleinstein, 1932-2010

The New York Times reports the passing of Bruno Schleinstein (Bruno S.), aged 78, known to many as the star of Werner Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Stroszek: 'He was a street musician, a painter of pictures, a forklift operator in a steel mill and, at one time, a mental patient. But, perhaps most remarkably, he was the lead actor in a movie that won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1975.' Of his on-screen persona: 'Werner Herzog, one of the innovators of postwar German cinema, twice in the 1970s cast Bruno to play pretty much himself — a damaged but somehow transcendent character.'

Source: Douglas Martin, 'Bruno S., Street Musician Turned Lead Actor in Herzog Classics, Dies at 78', New York Times, 14 August 2010

Disjecta: This week's links

Paula Rego, 'The Policeman's Daughter', 1987

Literature:

Paul Celan: On Celan's correspondence with Ingeborg Bachmann
Bret Easton Ellis: Mark Lawson reviews Less Than Zero sequel, Imperial Bedrooms
Samuel Beckett Summer School 2011
Samuel Beckett: Excerpt from Mercier and Camier
Samuel Beckett: French World Cup coach Raymond Domenech is a Beckett fan
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the creeping man
Shakespeare & Co.: A collection of links
Joyce Carol Oates: On trauma and adolescence
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Obituary from 1940
William Faukner: Signed collection sold at auction
Lee Rourke: Interview discussing the release of his debut novel, The Canal
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Moscow murals deemed 'depressing' and 'inappropriate'
William S. Burroughs: Burroughs executor James Grauerholz discusses the life and work
Will Self: On the growing gap between what is written and what is read
Françoise Sagan: A brief biography
The Critical Sphere: A new literary blog

Philosophy:

Arthur Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed
Jean-Paul Sartre: A brief biography

Theatre:

Shakespeare in Cardiff
Shakespearian Summer

Music

Patti Smith: Joseph Connor on the American poet and singer

Film & Television:

Larry David: The Guardian interviews Larry David on Woody Allen's Whatever Works
Jean-Luc Godard: Jason Solomons on the 50th anniversary of Breathless
David Lynch and Werner Herzog: Jeremy Kay on the collaboration, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
David Lynch: Peter Wild on the cancellation of popular television shows, such as Twin Peaks
David Lynch: On detectives
Samuel Beckett: Alan Schneider on Samuel Beckett's Film

Art:

Caravaggio: A life sacred and profane
Tetsuya Ishida: Kafkaesque paintings
Paula Rego: Germaine Greer on artists made dames

Thank you to all link contributors, who can be found on the A Piece of Monologue Twitter page.

Disjecta: This week's links

This week, Will Self writes on the work of Bavarian filmmaker Werner Herzog, a campaign is launched for critical theorist Slavoj Žižek to host Saturday Night Live, and Eric Hobsbawm reflects on being a jazz writer. In other news, the Francis Bacon In Camera exhibition is set to continue until 20 June, Owen Freeman displays his artwork for new editions of William Burroughs' work, and Hollywood artist, actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper has passed away, aged 74.

Literature:

James Joyce: Brian Donnelly on Ulysses
Franz Kafka: Review of Ritchie Robertson's Kafka: A very short introduction
Mark Twain: Autobiography to be published 100 years after Twain's death
Harper Lee: It's the summer of To Kill A Mockingbird
Paul Auster: Since Invisible, is Auster still postmodern? One reviewer is not so sure.
William S. Burroughs: Owen Freeman's beautifully-drawn editions for 4th Estate
Bristol Short Story Prize 2010
Samuel Beckett on Holiday

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Beckett, Blanchot, Philosophy Conference June 2010
Jacques Derrida: This month's featured writer on A Piece of Monologue
Jacques Derrida: On Gilles Deleuze and forgiveness
Hélène Cixous: New book, White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics
Will Slavoj Žižek host Saturday Night Live?
Simone de Beauvoir: New York Times reviews new translation of The Second Sex

Theatre:

William Shakespeare: Watch Ian McKellen's performance of King Lear free online
William Shakespeare: The Guardian on the best history plays
Are plays proper literature?

Film & Television:

Dennis Hopper 1934-2010: The Guardian provides a retrospective
Dennis Hopper 1934-2010: A career in clips
Jean-Luc Godard: Godard's Film Socialisme references Beckett, Derrida and Benjamin
Werner Herzog: Will Self writes on director Werner Herzog for GQ magazine
Werner Herzog narratives Plastic Bag

Music:

Jazz: Eric Hobsbawm on being a jazz writer

Art:

Francis Bacon: In Camera Exhibition 27 March - 20 June 2010
Waiting for Blobbot: Rebecca Dyer introduces her ontological creation to the world of Samuel Beckett

Thank you to all link contributors, who can be found on the
A Piece of Monologue Twitter page.

Disjecta: This week's links

This week we celebrated what would have been the 104th birthday of Irish writer Samuel Beckett. Included among the list are a selection of links to reviews, extracts and new productions of Beckett's work opening across the world. There have also been a few literary revelations in the news this week: from the uncovering of audio tapes featuring Sylvia Path and Ted Hughes in the early stages of their marriage, to the discovery of the first adult photograph of French poet Arthur Rimbaud. In addition to this, Joyce Carol Oates has announced that she is working on a memoir that deals with the death of her husband, the BFI is hosting a retrospective on Hitchcock's Psycho, and rumours abound that David Lynch will direct a sequel to Mulholland Drive.

Literature:

Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett: Richard Crary on Beckett's Letters
Samuel Beckett: An extract from his short prose work, 'Ceiling'
Samuel Beckett: An extract from early novel, Watt
Will Self at the Oxford Literary Festival, 2007
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes caught on tape
Joyce Carol Oates to write a memoir
First adult photograph of Arthur Rimbaud found
William Burroughs' 'Call Me Burroughs' Recordings
50 Best Book People to Follow on Twitter: Compiled by the Huffington Post

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

Fredric Jameson: Benjamin Kunkel on Jameson's Valences of the Dialectic

Film:

David Lynch: In case you missed it: Industrial Symphony.
David Lynch: New York Magazine ponders rumours of a Mulholland Dr. sequel
Alfred Hitchcock: BFI Season of Films: Psycho: A Classic in Context
Alfred Hitchcock: Kevin Maher of The Times on the influence of Psycho
Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition at the V&A
Werner Herzog: The Guardian reports on 3D Cave Art Documentary

Theatre:

Samuel Beckett: A new production of Endgame in Chicago's Steppenwolf theatre

Etc.:

Cookie Crumbs: This month's links from Critical Cookie
Twitter Archive to be stored by Library of Congress

Thank you to all link contributors, who can be found on the
A Piece of Monologue Twitter page.

Disjecta: This week's links

Baskerville Italic: What's your typeface?

This week, new evidence comes to light suggesting that French philosopher René Descartes may have been poisoned. The Guardian reflects on the lost translations of Jorges Luis Borges. And Iain Sinclair discusses the lasting artistic legacy of J. G. Ballard. In addition, there are new interviews with eccentric Austrian filmmaker Werner Herzog, unseen photographs from Francis Bacon's studio, and an article by Will Self on British arts presenter Melvyn Bragg.

Literature:

J. G. Ballard: Iain Sinclair on Ballard's artistic legacy
Arthur Koestler: The Guardian profiles the troubled European novelist
J. D. Salinger: Evidence suggests Salinger wrote long after he stopped publishing
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Goethe Walking Group
William Faulkner: On Faulkner's drinking habits
William S. Burroughs: Interviewed by The Paris Review
E-books: Why Charlie Brooker is an e-book convert
Jorge Luis Borges: The Guardian on Borges' lost translations
Best-Read Presidents of the United States
The Cult's Top Ten Books of 2009
Typo of the day for librarians

Philosophy & Critical Theory:

René Descartes: Was Descartes poisoned by a Catholic priest?

Simon Critchley: On the importance of critical theory to social movements

Judith Butler: On the importance of critical theory to social movements

Jacques Ranciere: On the importance of critical theory to social movements

Emmanuel Levinas: On war

Sigmund Freud: Hitler painting owned by Freud to be sold at auction

Boredom: Colin Bisset on boredom

Art:

Francis Bacon: Unseen images of wrestlers made in Bacon's studio
J. G. Ballard: BBC reports on art exhibition inspired by Ballard's work
J. G. Ballard: The Financial Times reviews Ballardian art exhibition
Fonts/Typefaces: Critical Cookie asks 'What's your type?'
Bauhaus: 1994 documentary, Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century

Film:

Werner Herzog: Sign and Sight interviews the Austrian filmmaker
Werner Herzog: Translated interview fragments published on Nomadics

Theatre:

Samuel Beckett: BFI Recommends Waiting for Godot at London's Haymarket Theatre
Samuel Beckett: Happy Days playbill from 1965, starring Madeleine Renaud, available from Ebay
Thomas Bernhard: Review of Bernhard's play, Heldenplatz

Etc.:

Will Self: On hotel breakfasts
Will Self: On Melvyn Bragg, the South Bank Show and In Our Time

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