“It is a fire that wants to burst forth and it could not care less about what we are doing up here!” Thus lauded filmmaker and seemingly unstoppable documentarian Werner Herzog explains the themes and ideas of his latest feature, the volcano-centric documentary “Into the Inferno,” a swirling mass of fire and destruction that only someone like Herzog could give us.
The film recently made its debut on the festival circuit, hitting up Telluride, Toronto and Rome in short order, and now it’s poised to rocket straight into your eyeballs, thanks to a steaming deal with Netflix that will bring the majestic power of both volcanoes and Herzog — together, at last, finally — right into your own home. No place is safe. But, then again, isn’t that exactly what Herzog has been telling us all these years?
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The film recently made its debut on the festival circuit, hitting up Telluride, Toronto and Rome in short order, and now it’s poised to rocket straight into your eyeballs, thanks to a steaming deal with Netflix that will bring the majestic power of both volcanoes and Herzog — together, at last, finally — right into your own home. No place is safe. But, then again, isn’t that exactly what Herzog has been telling us all these years?
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- 10/24/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
I saw far fewer films this year than last and I’ve spent far less time deliberating over my top 10 too. That said, whereas last year I knew my number one film almost straight away, I’m more inclined to suggest that the order of this list isn’t too important.
1) The Divide
A bleak, mean-spirited and rather misanthropic view of humanity to be sure, but this post-apocalyptic thriller delivered tension and social commentary in spades. It was also, at times very, very blackly funny.
2) Chronicle
I didn’t expect to like this half as much as I did. Sure, the found footage thing is boring and unnecessary, but where Chronicle really succeeds is in its commitment to its central premise: if real teenagers got super-powers, chances are they’d use them to dick around with. Convincing special effects and some genuine moments of excitement help too.
3) Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson...
1) The Divide
A bleak, mean-spirited and rather misanthropic view of humanity to be sure, but this post-apocalyptic thriller delivered tension and social commentary in spades. It was also, at times very, very blackly funny.
2) Chronicle
I didn’t expect to like this half as much as I did. Sure, the found footage thing is boring and unnecessary, but where Chronicle really succeeds is in its commitment to its central premise: if real teenagers got super-powers, chances are they’d use them to dick around with. Convincing special effects and some genuine moments of excitement help too.
3) Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson...
- 12/27/2012
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
I think children of the 90's have the shared experience of being pelted with everything dinosaur. There was The Land Before Time, Jurassic Park, TV's Dinosaurs, and the many sequels that followed, not to mention museum exhibits and animatronic dinosaur experiences. At this point, I am predisposed to love dinosaur movies. How is it possible then that directors David Krentz and Erik Nelson with narrator Werner Herzog took a film about dinosaurs ripping each other limb-to-limb and made it so boring?
Dinotasia is a series of vignettes of mother dinosaurs protecting their babies, grown dinosaurs tearing each other apart, or dinosaur parents getting killed, leaving their baby dinosaurs behind. Between each vignette, Herzog provides ridiculous narration about how the world of dinosaurs is a stage and how there are no heroes or villains in nature. This is a series of dinosaurs fighting, and the film's narration is trying to convince...
Dinotasia is a series of vignettes of mother dinosaurs protecting their babies, grown dinosaurs tearing each other apart, or dinosaur parents getting killed, leaving their baby dinosaurs behind. Between each vignette, Herzog provides ridiculous narration about how the world of dinosaurs is a stage and how there are no heroes or villains in nature. This is a series of dinosaurs fighting, and the film's narration is trying to convince...
- 12/9/2012
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
About five minutes into David Krentz & Erik Nelson's CG animated feature, Dinotasia, the thought occurred to me that this film didn't look any better than any number of Discovery Channel TV programs. Suffice it to say, I was not surprised to learn Dinotasia does, in fact, find its origins in a Discovery Channel series titled Dinosaur Revolution. That being said, I'm a fan of those programs. My son and I watch shows like Clash of the Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts, and Monsters Resurrected all the time. However, this film was marketed as a stand alone feature, and I feel as though that is a bit of a sketchy description.The ideas behind Dinotasia are certainly interesting. The filmmakers wanted to create short vignettes following one or two...
- 11/8/2012
- Screen Anarchy
I’ll admit I had no idea what Dinotasia was until I read the following press release, and since then, it’s climbed up my Netflix queue like Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger. Or something that climbs well. The feature length animated film is co-directed by Werner Herzog as well as narrated by the guy (who has one of the top 24 voices in showbiz), and described as Sopranos meets prehistoric times. It has psychedelic drugs, violence, and some awesome visuals. Really, why hadn’t I heard of this before?! Get onboard people. It’s out now on DVD and Blu-Ray. Check out the press release, a trailer, and the cool poster.
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of...
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of...
- 11/7/2012
- by Andy Greene
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
The Movie -
The dinosaur has been a fascination with myself, like with so many both young and old. Such magnificent, yet enigmatic beasts that can only be imagined by those uneducated in the paleontological studies, the experts themselves cannot agree and are constantly finding themselves rewriting the textbooks on a species of creature hundreds of thousands, even millions of years prior to our very existence. This alone, on its very surface, is enough to call me thoroughly captivated.
Steven Spielberg first captured and capitalized on the possibilities of what I may call dino-tainment in 1993 with Jurassic Park. Even today, some nearly 20 years later, the film holds up spectacularly to the test of time. However, its the dinosaur itself whom truly stands the ultimate test of time. From cartoons and TV shows, children’s toys and public broadcasting specials, from the absolutely absurd to the most numbing narratives, dinosaurs never went extinct in our minds.
The dinosaur has been a fascination with myself, like with so many both young and old. Such magnificent, yet enigmatic beasts that can only be imagined by those uneducated in the paleontological studies, the experts themselves cannot agree and are constantly finding themselves rewriting the textbooks on a species of creature hundreds of thousands, even millions of years prior to our very existence. This alone, on its very surface, is enough to call me thoroughly captivated.
Steven Spielberg first captured and capitalized on the possibilities of what I may call dino-tainment in 1993 with Jurassic Park. Even today, some nearly 20 years later, the film holds up spectacularly to the test of time. However, its the dinosaur itself whom truly stands the ultimate test of time. From cartoons and TV shows, children’s toys and public broadcasting specials, from the absolutely absurd to the most numbing narratives, dinosaurs never went extinct in our minds.
- 11/5/2012
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Dinotasia is a feature-length animated film with narration by Werner Herzog being released November 6th on DVD/Blue-ray and digital platforms, and while you can't quite call it horror, dinosaurs + violence/sex/psychedelics + Herzog = a unique sub-category that we think will appeal to a lot of you.
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of Cinedigm Entertainment Group (Nasdaq: Cidm). A marriage between classic visual storytelling and CGI dinosaurs, the film is an anthology of humorous prehistoric stories created in the cartoon-style of the Golden Age of animation. The film is co-directed by long-time Herzog collaborator Erik Nelson and Disney character designer David Krentz. The DVD/Blue-ray includes the 83-minute feature film plus an extended scene, a mating rites extra story,...
From the Press Release:
Creative Differences announces the Tuesday, November 6, 2012, release of Dinotasia, an animated feature film narrated by Werner Herzog, on DVD/Blu-ray and digital platforms in the U.S. and Canada through Flatiron Film Company, a label of Cinedigm Entertainment Group (Nasdaq: Cidm). A marriage between classic visual storytelling and CGI dinosaurs, the film is an anthology of humorous prehistoric stories created in the cartoon-style of the Golden Age of animation. The film is co-directed by long-time Herzog collaborator Erik Nelson and Disney character designer David Krentz. The DVD/Blue-ray includes the 83-minute feature film plus an extended scene, a mating rites extra story,...
- 11/4/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Before it's due out on DVD/Blu-ray on November 6, Dinotasia will have a one-week theatrical run at the IFC Center in New York from October 26 to November 1. The film is co-directed by long-time Herzog collaborator/producer Erik Nelson and Disney character designer David Krentz (John Carter and Dinosaur). A love letter to fans of graphic novel-style film vignettes and classic film animation, Dinotasia gives one of our favorite natural history subjects a makeover like never before, told in a purely visual style not seen since the classic era of silent filmmaking or the pioneering early work of Walt Disney Studios. Based on current research findings from recent paleontology studies, Dinotosia uses groundbreaking CGI to bring to magnificent, terrifying life many creatures that have been discovered in the past 10...
- 10/11/2012
- Screen Anarchy
★★☆☆☆ A heady combination of Werner Herzog and dinosaurs should be enough to draw people to David Krentz and Erik Nelson's pseudo-documentary Dinotasia (2012), a dramatic retelling of a the age of the 'terrible lizards', leading up to the destruction of these prehistoric titans by a giant meteor crashing into the Earth. Sadly, this rambling retelling of the dinosaur's epic story quickly succeeds in dashing any positive expectations.
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- 8/28/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a jam-packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, August 27th 2012.
Pick(S) Of The Week
Detention (DVD)
Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook and Spencer Locke star in Detention, a hipster, teen horror-comedy where the local students of Grizzly Lake must survive their final year of high school. Standing in their way is Cinderhella, a slasher-movie killer who has seemingly come to life and is preying on the school’s student body. As the clock ticks and the bodies pile up, the likely suspects are embroiled in a race against time to stop Cinderhella and ultimately save the world…...
Pick(S) Of The Week
Detention (DVD)
Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook and Spencer Locke star in Detention, a hipster, teen horror-comedy where the local students of Grizzly Lake must survive their final year of high school. Standing in their way is Cinderhella, a slasher-movie killer who has seemingly come to life and is preying on the school’s student body. As the clock ticks and the bodies pile up, the likely suspects are embroiled in a race against time to stop Cinderhella and ultimately save the world…...
- 8/27/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Dinotasia
Narrated by Werner Herzog | Written and Directed by David Krentz, Erik Nelson
Dinotasia is a strange beast, and this is even before we start to talk about the dinosaurs that populate the film. Narrated by Werner Herzog with a script that will somewhat confuse you, especially when this is being described as a documentary this is quite a unique look at the world of the dinosaur. If anything, you can at least say that any film narrated by Werner Herzog is going to be interesting.
We learn more about dinosaurs almost every day; fossils are found around the world, evidence is found to show us how they lived and as technology advances we are able to look into the lives of creates that lived millions of years before we even existed. Dinotasia takes a different view for a documentary of dinosaurs and looks at their everyday lives and the adventures they went on,...
Narrated by Werner Herzog | Written and Directed by David Krentz, Erik Nelson
Dinotasia is a strange beast, and this is even before we start to talk about the dinosaurs that populate the film. Narrated by Werner Herzog with a script that will somewhat confuse you, especially when this is being described as a documentary this is quite a unique look at the world of the dinosaur. If anything, you can at least say that any film narrated by Werner Herzog is going to be interesting.
We learn more about dinosaurs almost every day; fossils are found around the world, evidence is found to show us how they lived and as technology advances we are able to look into the lives of creates that lived millions of years before we even existed. Dinotasia takes a different view for a documentary of dinosaurs and looks at their everyday lives and the adventures they went on,...
- 8/26/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Detention
DVD, Sony
This could be just what the youth of today have been waiting for: a movie you can chat and text away to while watching – and it will make absolutely no difference whatsoever. It's ostensibly a school-based teen horror film, but music video director (and it really shows) Joseph Kahn throws the pages of the script into the air and films them in the order they land – or so it would appear. It's a time-twisting tale that takes in UFOs, meteors, magnetic bears, C+C Music Factory, cheerleaders, jocks and geeks. And brutal murders. It's hard to make much sense of it as the story includes everything and seems to say nothing. That's not to say it's bad, just that it's hard to say exactly what it is. Texting is positively encouraged: there's a moment when two characters sitting next to each other realise that talking is a...
DVD, Sony
This could be just what the youth of today have been waiting for: a movie you can chat and text away to while watching – and it will make absolutely no difference whatsoever. It's ostensibly a school-based teen horror film, but music video director (and it really shows) Joseph Kahn throws the pages of the script into the air and films them in the order they land – or so it would appear. It's a time-twisting tale that takes in UFOs, meteors, magnetic bears, C+C Music Factory, cheerleaders, jocks and geeks. And brutal murders. It's hard to make much sense of it as the story includes everything and seems to say nothing. That's not to say it's bad, just that it's hard to say exactly what it is. Texting is positively encouraged: there's a moment when two characters sitting next to each other realise that talking is a...
- 8/24/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Acclaimed Bavarian director Werner Herzog steps into the voice-over booth for dinosaur documentary Dinotasia (2011), available to own on DVD courtesy of UK distributor Picturehouse Entertainment. To celebrate this release, we've kindly been given Three DVD copies of the film to give away to our lucky readers. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
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- 8/24/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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