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One to watch out for by the wonderful Mr Werner Herzog
http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=64

cheers
f

fitzcoraldo wrote:
One to watch out for by the wonderful Mr Werner Herzog
http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=64

cheers
f

Just read the link fitz, looks like a 'must see' and 'must have' when its on dvd.

I've bookmarked the link so I don't lose sight of it.

Many thanks

Ooh, this looks good! Cheers for the heads up, Fitz! This could well be the first 3D film I see!

G x

fitzcoraldo wrote:
One to watch out for by the wonderful Mr Werner Herzog
http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=64

cheers
f

Apparently it's out next month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVoU8Hr2euA

Prior to general release on 26/3/11, now being previewed in various parts of the country. Anyone in the north Wiltshire area (Swindon) can see it on Tuesday 22nd March at 6.15pm. Tickets: £10
Also at High Wycombe and Wigan.

http://www.empirecinemas.co.uk/index.php?page=synopsis&filmid=2502

fitzcoraldo wrote:
One to watch out for by the wonderful Mr Werner Herzog
http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=64

cheers
f

Yes, cheers Fritz

If you would like to read the other posts on the Chauvet Cave, see the site page here....

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/13663/chauvet_cave.html

This might be the place to catch a preview of the film - I wonder if there are any tickets left - it's a long time since I was at FACT, sharing a space with Bill Drummond and Tracey Emin, amongst others ( http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/cinema/Picturehouse_At_Fact/News/Item/Werner_Herzog_Q_A_Live_Via_Satellite/ ).

It's not often the Guardian gives a film fives stars but it has for this one ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/mar/24/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-review ). And, reading down through the comments - White Diamond wasn't that bad!

Note for Nigel:- those Romans were clever beggars. Photographing the lead pig yesterday I noticed it has MADE IN ENGLAND on the bottom, in a bold sans serif font. That is just amazing, and they must have prefigured how lettering would go. I should list the dolphin brooch and an iron plumb bob though, maybe tomorrow, probably Sunday. Nice brooch, though toga clip is probably better description ...

fitzcoraldo wrote:
One to watch out for by the wonderful Mr Werner Herzog
http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=64

cheers
f

These paintings really are extraordinary. Herzog says we haven’t really bettered them in over 30,000 years. He also goes on to say the duplication of drawn/painted lines (seen in the legs and heads of animals) was an attempt to suggest motion – an early ‘cinematographic’ technique in other words. That’s amazing, given how old they are. And it’s easy to see how alive, and realistic, these painted animals would have appeared in the light of flickering oil lamps (no doubt enhanced even further by the uneven surface on which they were executed).

Marcel Duchamp used the duplication of lines technique to suggest motion in his Nude Descending a Staircase. There’s a Taoist temple in China with a mural that shows a court official whose eyes are painted using the duplication technique, as if to suggest he’s lowering them in the presence of the emperor. In Kyoto National Museum there’s a life-size wooden sculpture of a standing Bodhisattva; the face is split vertically down the centre to reveal an identical face within, and this second face is again split vertically to reveal a third face; not just motion here but perhaps something even more awe-inspiring... though the 32,000 year old Chauvet cave paintings are pretty mind-blowing by any standards!

fitzcoraldo wrote:
One to watch out for by the wonderful Mr Werner Herzog
http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=64

cheers
f

There was a five minute clip on Radio 4 at 7:15 this morning. Seems there’s some disagreement on the age of the paintings – the French insisting they’re around 30,000 years old and some here thinking they’re not that old. Seems like there are also serious concerns over their conservation :-(

I'd definitely recommend going to see it so you can get the benefit of the 3D. It was very enjoyable and had a few of the Herzog quirks.

............ http://www.movie2k.to/Cave-of-Forgotten-Dreams-watch-movie-914557.html

Had the pleasure of seeing it in 3d in Birmingham


Michigan

fitzcoraldo wrote:
One to watch out for by the wonderful Mr Werner Herzog
http://www.wernerherzog.com/index.php?id=64

cheers
f

Finally got to see this wonderful film, will also buy the dvd which is selling for around a tenner. Amazing cave paintings, up to 32,000 years old preserved in pristine condition by a rock fall which effectively sealed the cave.

The postscript was interesting in the light of the glacier-melt discussion going on elsewhere; the valley where the cave is found was once covered in ice. Now, just 20 miles away, there is a nuclear power plant. The water used to cool the reactors is pumped into an artificial tropical park which is in effect a massive greenhouse. Crocodiles live there and are breeding very well in the humid conditions - only they are producing albino mutants. Herzog didn't say whether this was anything to do with radioactivity or not. Thought provoking ... that art from the Palaeolithic past can survive when so much else seems to be going to hell in a handcart.

Marvelous 3D. Totally goofy movie: way too much blah blah blah outside the cave by experts. Some lamer throwing a spear ten feet. Etc. Jumled repetitious clips of the art; little or no good depiction of the layout of the cave. Way too little discussion of the painting/drawing techniques.

Beautiful to see, a snorer to watch.