Werner Herzog

Happy People celebrates simplicity

Werner Herzog co-directs this starkly beautiful film about a year in Siberia on the taiga

Tom Cruise scores in Jack Reacher

The star is convincing as a tough guy in a beat-'em-up action flick

Fall Arts Guide 2012

Mother of Fire on recording Feral Children and DIY spaces

Hypnotic groove psychedelic rock trio Mother of Fire are known for creating intensely haunting, loud, mesmerizing shows in unique environments. In DIY spaces (their favorite) art galleries, punk squats, house shows, and even rock clubs, they transport listeners visually as well as sonically. Thei ... More >>

MSPIFF 2012: Reviews

Headshot, Unforgivable, Natural Selection, and more

Dosh and Why? improv set at the Clown Lounge tonight

​Missed seeing Why? in the Mainroom on Saturday night? Here's a chance to catch them in a much more intimate and introspective setting, jamming with Dosh tonight for an improv set in the Turf Club's Clown Lounge. With Fog's Mark Erickson and Andrew Broder recently joining Why? on tour, chances are ... More >>

Mischke Show Notes: Dec. 15, 2009

Join the conversation with T.D. Mischke on today's 'In The Stream' live from 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Film Highlight: Tulpan

Summer Grows Up

For once, this season's movies don't ask you to check your brains at the door

Film Highlight: The Grand

The Top Movies of 2007

By Our Critics

Man Down

Werner Herzog takes his hero-worship to Hollywood with 'Rescue Dawn'

Top 10 Films of 2005 (plus many more)

The Year in Film 2005

About a Bear

Werner Herzog roars at the wild condition in 'Grizzly Man'

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Why does the film festival make great movies look so bad?

Film Fest Coverage II: The Sequel

The M-SPIFF's second week brings 'The World' and more

Do That to Me One More Time

Once is never enough: Try another tryst with world cinema in week two of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival

Print the Legend

In 40 self-sacrificing years at the helm of the University Film Society, Al Milgrom has seen his reputation grow to mythic stature. How this grumpy old man might cope with turning over his life’s work is another story.

Leaving Room for Miracles

German director Doris Dörrie makes the temporal political--and vice versa

Imperfect Harmony

With julien donkey-boy, director Harmony Korine continues his tradition of making flawed but fascinatingly belligerent cinema

The Year in Film

1999 brought a cinematic bounty to the art house and the multiplex alike

The Middle Of Somewhere

With American Movie, director Chris Smith finds the heart of cinema in the unlikely environs of Milwaukee

Werner Herzog's "Lessons of Darkness"

Taking it All In

Welcome to the Jungle

The confounding cinema of Werner Herzog thrusts Western society into the wilds of its own mind

The Fine Art of Sucking

Lookin' for Love: Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.

Why Did Herr Fassbinder Run Amok?

An epic retrospective sheds new light on German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Psychedelic Revival

The Real McCoy