Max writes:
"True eccentricity, of course, is reserved to a select group of people to which the denominator “a happy few” hardly applies. And yet, even amongst the precious few genuine eccentrics we have left in our culture (no, Lady Gaga doesn’t count) there is a man who stands above the rest: Werner Herzog."
Werner Herzog, a legend of film-making if there ever was one, is 72 today. To celebrate the German maverick, Nick Mitchell looks back at five films from his long and varied career you have to see.
Cast and crew nearly killed? Animals abused? Must be Werner Herzog.
THR:
Robert Pattinson is attached to play Lawrence of Arabia in Queen of the Desert, Werner Herzog’s biopic of Gertrude Bell.
Naomi Watts is starring as Bell, described as the female Lawrence of Arabia for the impact the English woman had in the Middle East and her work in establishing what would become the modern framework for Jordan and Iraq. She was an explorer, writer, archeologist and political attache and worked for British Intelligence during World War I.
Pattinson will play T.E. Lawrence, the archeologist-turned-British Army officer who played key roles in Middle Eastern revolutions in the same time period and became close friends with Bell. Peter O'Toole earned an Oscar nom for portraying the explorer in the 1962 classic Lawrence of Arabia.
