The Wild Blue Yonder
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Movie Reviews of The Wild Blue Yonder
Movie Review: Lost in Space the Herzog way
Summary: 5 Stars
"Astronauts lost in space, the secret Roswell object re-examined, an alien who tells us all about his home planet - the Wild Blue Yonder - where the atmosphere is composed of liquid helium and the sky frozen, is all part of my science-fiction fantasy." - Werner Herzog
This film is a piece of art. Let it go at that and don't expect the CGI version to come out in five years. It is meant to make you think about the bigger picture, ie, how Earthlings view the universe and where they fit. It tells a science fiction story more in the vein of "what if," so if you can keep an open mind, then you'll find yourself pondering the film even a few days after viewing it. I think it is best to see it on the big screen and with an audience in order to feel its comedy and enjoy the beauty of the NASA footage and the film's astounding score. If you see it at home, dedicate an entire 90 minutes to viewing this movie, in the dark, the windows closed, without real-world interruption.
Essentially, Herzog's a genius for projecting a science fiction fantasy story onto NASA's Galileo footage and space shuttle coverage, complete with astronauts in their daily routines, and also original footage beautifully filmed by avante garde musician Henry Kaiser for the "liquid helium" sequences.
The music is perfect and Herzog himself calls the film an oratorio.
If you love the beauty and darkness of the film Baraka and the satirical parallel's to real-world politics like in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, then you'll get what is going on in The Wild Blue Yonder.
It's a limited edition DVD; 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen; Dolby Digital Stereo; commentary featuring Herzog, Dourif and Norm Hill; Q&A, behind the scenes featurette, still galleries, and bios.
Here is information for those who want the soundtrack:
Sounds for two films by Werner Herzog
THE WILD BLUE YONDER and THE WHITE DIAMOND
Music by Ernst Reijseger
Werner Herzog was joined by Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger, Senegalese singer Mola Sylla and the Voches de Sardinna called Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei. An initially unlikely assemblage became a powerful, unique and extraordinary work.
This album is the sound story REQUIEM FOR A DYING PLANET by Stefan Winter, inspired by Ernst Reijseger's works recorded for Werner Herzog.
A production of Winter & Winter
For further information - winterandwinter . com
Movie Review: hither or yonder?
Summary: 5 Stars
Well this one is a real puzzle. There are three main scenes in this: that's not a spoiler; it's shown on the packaging. There's a derelict building, weightless astronauts on a spaceship, and divers under ice. That's all real and shot on location. However the plot and its location is something else and is overlaid onto a reality that we're only too aware of.
I guess this one is really about perception, and I found I had to work very hard to doublethink two perceptions at once - particularly as I used to function in one of those elements myself, as a scuba diving instructor.
Herzog appears to put his cards on the table in this one: the step that humanity made between hunter-gathering and settled farming (or civilisation) is what started the ecological destruction of our planet. But this film is more than that.
As always, Herzog is celebrating the beauty of our world and of our inner life with fantastic camera work. Just enjoy it. That is enough. If it makes you swap your car for public transport, and you decide to use fewer aeroplanes and plastics, then good on you. But the beauty of the light and colour shining through the ice, and the grace of the floating astronauts is more than that.
Movie Review: Please Folks...
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wild Blue Yonder is an experimental film. It's a little bit fiction, a little bit mockumentary, a little bit theater, a little bit documentary, and a whole lot of Herzog. This film wasn't made to be a traditional Sci-Fi film, or easy, mindless viewing.
I saw it in a theater at a festival earlier last year and I was completely enthralled. Herzog creates a very grim and slooooow mood (like most of his filmography), consisting of real footage from underneath an arctic glacier, mathematicians blathering, and mesmerizing NASA footage. All the while, a crazed Brad Dourif weaves a fable of being an alien coming to Earth.
The music (much to the dismay of some negative viewers) is absolutely stunning, organic and trance inducing like most of Herzog's previous film's scores, similar to that Popol Vuh vibe.
If you want a clear narrative, an exciting story, characters, or if you are easily bored or unfamiliar with Herzog's obscure works or other experimental films - stay away, you'll hate it. Fans of 2001, Tarkovsky, Lessons of Darkness or just plain old art for art's sake - approach with caution, it's rewarding. Especially on a large TV screen.
Movie Review: An inspiring film. Truly out of this world.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is a beauty. Photography, music, directing and the acting of Brad is literally out of this world. It might be a science fiction tale -but essentially - I truly believe our future destiny as human beings and as human race as a whole is depicted in this movie. After watching this movie, I fell in love with my planet and now I find unbearable the idea of having to leave the Earth to survive in other places. If we cannot love and respect our home planet we have no right to go out and mess up other worlds.
After watching it - you will feel as if you had been for an instant somewhere else, you will feel with a different state of mind and consciousness.
Five stars. This is destined to be a cult movie.
Movie Review: Herog's 2001 is a fantastic DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the most bizzare and beautiful mockumentaries ever made. The premise is funny and profound....thoroughly enjoyable, and fantastic picture and sound.