The 70-year-old director discusses his new viral documentary and some of the highlights, and odd episodes, of his long career -- all with tears in his eyes.

Herzog, the esteemed director of Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God, hailed The Mandalorian as “cinema back at its best” and praised its primary creator, executive ...

Few living filmmakers are more acclaimed than Werner Herzog, which is why it was a little surprising when he turned up to play a by-the-numbers bad guy in the new Star Wars series The Mandalorian ...

One of the highlights mentioned in my dispatch from the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, published last Monday in indieWIRE, was a multimedia exhibit on Werner Herzog in the port city’s ...

T wenty-five years ago, while in Tokyo directing an opera, the German filmmaker Werner Herzog turned down the offer of a private audience with the emperor of Japan.“It was a faux pas, so awful ...

Werner Herzog, the infamous director behind Nosferatu, Grizzly Man, and dozens of other arthouse cinema classics, is once again dipping his toes into more conventional Hollywood fare by starring ...

Werner Herzog says in his new film “Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds” that to be a scientist you need a sense of wonder. That’s a quality that’s been true of just about all of Herzog ...

Werner Herzog, whose acclaimed films include “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Grizzly Man,” said that the world of the “Barbie” movie is “sheer hell.” ...

A New Role for Werner Herzog: The Voice of A.I. Poetry When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed. “I wasn’t the best choice,” he said.

The 70-year-old director discusses his new viral documentary and some of the highlights, and odd episodes, of his long career — all with tears in his eyes.