Joaquin Phoenix/Werner Herzog

[abcdefz]

God bless Werner.

From IMDB:

Herzog Helped Phoenix from Car Wreckage
Oscar-nominee Joaquin Phoenix was rescued from his car wreck last week by German cult director Werner Herzog. The 31-year-old Walk The Line star overturned his car on a canyon road above Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood after his brakes failed and he collided with another vehicle. Phoenix was saved because he was wearing his seat-belt, but has revealed he was helped from the wreckage by the 63-year-old, who has a home nearby. The actor says, "I remember this knocking on the passenger window. There was this German voice saying, 'Just relax.' There's the airbag, I can't see and I'm saying, 'I'm fine. I am relaxed. Finally, I rolled down the window and this head pops inside. And he said, 'No, you're not.' And suddenly I said to myself, 'That's Werner Herzog' There's something so calming and beautiful about Werner Herzog's voice. I felt completely fine and safe. I climbed out. I got out of the car and I said, 'Thank you,' and he was gone."

[hpdrifter]

Wow, Werner Herzog is a guardian angel. Who knew?

L.A. must be a strange place to live. You could be in line for your coffee behind Paul Giamatti. You could be working out ext to Claire Danes.

I kind of miss living in L.A. Though I never saw famous people randomly on the street.

[abcdefz]

I met John Mellencamp in a toy store and REM in a bar. Anyone else famous that I met, it was in some sort of performance context, not just as regular blokes hanging around.

[DandyFop]

Yeah I read this story also...fantastic.

[abcdefz]

...didn't Herzog take Grizzly Man to Sundance last year?

[roosta]

i saw an interview with Herzog last night. As the interviewer and him were walking up the road, he was shot by someone with an air rifle.

They then start the interview, after everyone has calmed down.

At the end the interviewer raises the shooting incident. Herzog steps up and pulls down his pants to show the bloody wound just above his cock. and he laughs it off. "i am a soldier of cinema".

hahaha..so strange.

[DandyFop]

...didn't Herzog take Grizzly Man to Sundance last year?

Yeah. I didn't get a chance to see it unfortunately, but did attend one of the panels i was at. He was in the audience, not even on the panel, but he got up and started talking about censorship and all that jazz.

[abcdefz]

Double true. (y)

[abcdefz]

Yeah. I didn't get a chance to see it unfortunately, but did attend one of the panels i was at. He was in the audience, not even on the panel, but he got up and started talking about censorship and all that jazz.



Is he someone you would want to meet?

I think he's fascinating. When he rambles, sometimes there's a bunch of bullshit thrown in, but I have huge respect for the man and his work.

[abcdefz]

If you buy them by the boxed set (which I think you did?), they're reasonably priced. You get the slimline case for each movie instead of the full on hardshell, but other than that, it's a sweet deal.

But some of the things have to be purchased separately, and that sucked.

I didn't like Grizzly Man. It's assembled fairly well, but I disliked almost everybody in that movie. Treadwell isn't charming or very interesting at all -- he was just a delusional dumbass trying to create his own reality just by thinking certain ways. An idiot, and not a compelling one.