As a filmmaker, Herzog has always been more interested in images than story and I'd be hard pressed to find an image more typifying ambition, adventure, and madness than a man trying to move a 300 ton ship over a mountain in the middle of a jungle. Fitzcarraldo and the other films covered this month may not have stood out to me in any ways other than some striking images and sequences, but I'm sure as hell glad that there's a filmmaker willing to explore chaos like Herzog.

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Tyler and David discuss the evolution of geek-centric television as well as George Takei and Sulu.

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Small towns with large personalities. The beginning of Christopher Guest, kind of sort of. Spinal Tap and the Guestmen. Guffman. Guestmen? Either way, what’s up with Waiting for Guffman’s Windows 95 looking cover? A cult following of a whole different kind. Who is really Waiting for Guffman? Living moment to moment in A Town Called Panic. The undertaking in creating a feature length film based on a season of five minute shorts. What’s the central conflict of A Town Called Panic? Change of scenery change of scenery change of scenery. Oh no, good news!

Small towns with large personalities. The beginning of Christopher Guest, kind of sort of. Spinal Tap and the Guestmen. Guffman. Guestmen? Either way, what’s up with Waiting for Guffman’s Windows 95 looking cover? A cult following of a whole different … Continue reading →

This time Jim got exactly what he expected and what he expected was weird - tenderly and delightfully weird. It probably doesn't matter WHY Herzog made a lot of the decisions he did while making Stroszek because WHAT results is arguably more important: an examination of the tragedy and comedy that exist side-by-side in a world controlled by forces that we sometimes cannot comprehend and often can never overcome. HILARIOUS!

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This time Jim got exactly what he expected and what he expected was weird - tenderly and delightfully weird. It probably doesn't matter WHY Herzog made a lot of the decisions he did while making Stroszek because WHAT results is arguably more important: an examination of the tragedy and comedy that exist side-by-side in a world controlled by forces that we sometimes cannot comprehend and often can never overcome. HILARIOUS!

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This time Jim got exactly what he expected and what he expected was weird - tenderly and delightfully weird. It probably doesn't matter WHY Herzog made a lot of the decisions he did while making Stroszek because WHAT results is arguably more important: an examination of the tragedy and comedy that exist side-by-side in a world controlled by forces that we sometimes cannot comprehend and often can never overcome. HILARIOUS!

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This time Jim got exactly what he expected and what he expected was weird - tenderly and delightfully weird. It probably doesn't matter WHY Herzog made a lot of the decisions he did while making Stroszek because WHAT results is arguably more important: an examination of the tragedy and comedy that exist side-by-side in a world controlled by forces that we sometimes cannot comprehend and often can never overcome. HILARIOUS!

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This time Jim got exactly what he expected and what he expected was weird - tenderly and delightfully weird. It probably doesn't matter WHY Herzog made a lot of the decisions he did while making Stroszek because WHAT results is arguably more important: an examination of the tragedy and comedy that exist side-by-side in a world controlled by forces that we sometimes cannot comprehend and often can never overcome. HILARIOUS!

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