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Into the Inferno
2016 · Film · documentary · 107 min
Directed by Werner Herzog
With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes and their ties to indigenous spiritual practices.
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Worth watching: Into the Inferno, a film by Werner Herzog in which he depicts the relationship between active volcanoes and the humans who live in their shadows.
The aforementioned Lessons of Darkness is obligatory, but as I said, it is less a documentary than a kind of audiovisual poem. The footage is incredible [1].
Of his "straight" documentaries, Encounters at the End of the World is great. It's a film about the people who live at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Like his other biographical documentaries, it mixes quirky people and humour with brutally realist view of the world, all to great photography and music.
The Fire Within [3], his 2022 documentary on the popular volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, is wonderful. It's a superior companion piece to his earlier films about volcanos (Herzog really likes volcanoes), Into the Inferno and La Soufriere.
Of his fiction films, you can't avoid Aguirre, Wrath of God or Fitzcarraldo. But a personal favourite of mine among his 1970s films is Heart of Glass [4], a quirky and beautiful retelling of a Bavarian folk tale, set in the 1700s.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHfVnM_duRg
[2] https://letterboxd.com/film/encounters-at-the-end-of-the-world/
[3] https://letterboxd.com/film/the-fire-within-requiem-for-katia-and-maurice-krafft/
[4] https://letterboxd.com/film/heart-of-glass/
His more recent doco Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)[0] was, for me, even more fascinating.
Also, his 1977 short La Soufrière[1] is set on an island where a volcano is about to erupt.
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9203832/
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076741/
Link to Into the Inferno: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846318/
I loved watching the movie, Into the Inferno, by Werner Herzog. Netflix carries it. Very very fascinating!
I've seen "Into the Inferno", which I assume is one of the films your professor was in (is he Oppenheimer?). Visually spectacular, but Hertzog's commentary overlay and approach made it just...odd. He's a weird dude, but very talented.
Which movies? The only one I didn’t like was the one about the internet, Lo and Behold. I feel like maybe he was just from too many eras ago to understand how full of shit all the people he was interviewing were. All the rest of his movies always make me understand the world and humans on a deeper level than I did before. Happy People, Into the Inferno, Grizzly Man, the one about the cave paintings, the one about the South Pole.
Into the Inferno - Werner Herzog. Documentary on volcanoes where the director allows the filming locations to bring other topics to the forefront.
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World - Werner Herzog. Film about the internet.
The Thin Blue Line - Erol Morris. Film about a murder of a police officer that comes to a different conclusion than the court did about who the murderer is and led to the release of an innocent man and the incarceration of the guilty one.
The Civil War - Ken Burns. There's a reason it's a classic!
Good Intentions - Walter Williams. Film about how economic policies that sound good often have the reverse effects that they intend to have.
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