Dear Abby: I'm writing regarding "Puzzled but Still Going Strong," who lost weight but is being undermined by her husband. It is possible that the man is codependent. Simply stated, his identity or comfort level is dependent on his wife remaining overweight. When she loses weight, the husband loses a piece of his identity or becomes afraid he will lose his now- slimmer wife to another man. In codependency, the codependent partner will do everything he/she can do to undermine improvements in the other partner.
In the quarter-century since Fitzcarraldo, his last major dramatic film, [Werner Herzog] has kept up a dizzying pace working in the nonfiction arena; indeed, perhaps no major director in cinema history combines so many achievements in the fictional and documentary realms. Much of this work has been for European television, and thus hasn't been seen in U.S. art houses. But as "Herzog Nonfiction," a recent retrospective at New York's Film Forum, proved, the director's documentary output has been consistently remarkable, and includes such outright coups as 1991 's Lessons of Darkness and 2005's Grizzly Man. In coloring within genre lines, Herzog opts for dramatic precision rather than venturing the thematic reach or metaphysical resonance of many of his films. [Dieter Dengler] 's story, as...
..."Li ittie Dieter Needs to Fly is not a great Werner Herzog film, but beca...
We've become so comfy, in our air-conditioned living rooms, that TV reality shows have had to remind us how much worse things could be. But [Werner Herzog], who's devoted his entire career to cracking the thin veneer of ice we call civilization, doesn't just remind us, he plops us down in the middle of the jungle, with nothing but our wits to help us find our way back out. It's only later that you realize he's used crane shots and background music, for Rescue Dawn feels like the real thing, thanks in part to the lush terrain, which closes in on you like a python's jaws, and also to Christian Bale's strangely buoyant performance. Indulging in another of his weight-loss routines (in The Machinist, he got down to nothing), Bale may run the risk of confusing acting with dieting, but he tota...
..."Death didn't want me," Dieter Dengler used to say about the incredible ordeal he... Dengler, a documentary called Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and if you think Bale is strangely buoyant...
(2005) (Shown on film): The Reels on Wheels program (see Ambler Theater for still more) goes to Bryn Mawr with this doc, in which filmmaker Doug Block recounts how his family's cohesion was called into question after his mother's death revealed some long-held secrets. PW's Liz Spikol, in her fest review, called it "both a searing indictment of 1950s pre-feminism suburbia and a suspenseful portrait of a complex marriage." (Not reviewed.) Wed., April 19, 7pm. (2005) (Shown on DVD): Who's the most exciting celebrity? Is it Paris Hilton and her interchangeable skirmishes? The forever stalled romances of Brangelina and the like? Or is it Werner Herzog, who, in addition to making this endlessly evolving doc, pulled Joaquin Phoenix from a car wreck, got cast as Abraham Lincoln in Harmony Korin...
... his fictionalization of his own doc Little Dieter Needs to Fly starring Christian Bale (Rescue Dawn)...
Werner Herzog first told the story of downed U.S. Navy pilot Dieter Dengler in the 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly. As he and his subject were wrapping up filming on that project Dengler told him, "You know this is unfinished business, don't you?" RESCUE DAWN is the fulfillment of Herzog's pledge to dramatize the mind-boggling story of his late friend's escape from a Laotian prison camp (the only American P.O.W. to do so) in grand Hollywood style. Christian Bale, shown above right, stars as the flyer whose dreams of a Navy career end minutes into his first mission with a bullet-strafed wing and crash into a rice paddy. Captured and refusing to sign a propaganda confession, Dengler is given homespun village tortures and marched by a Viet Cong militia to a distant prison camp-...
Arriving at McMurdo Station, the National Science Foundation's Antarctica outpost, as part of his typical two-man movie crew-Peter Zeitlinger is responsible for the astonishing camerawork; [Werner Herzog] handled sound duties-our fussy narrator is immediately appalled by the unseasonably pleasant weather and his crassly Americanized surroundings. When not amusingly groaning about his disdain for "sunlight on my skin and on my celluloid," Herzog tears into this "ugly mining town" for having "abominations like yoga classes and even an ATM. It takes a certain sort of wandering spirit to end up in Antarctica, and Herzog chats up the residents at great length, wondering how exactly they ended up at the bottom of the world. The director's immediate feeling of kinship comes through in the on-...
...Shades of Herzog's Little Dieter Needs to Fly can be found in the story of a man wh...
The differences in the names alone, between the generically titled new prisoner of war drama "Rescue Dawn" and the quirkily named 1997 documentary "Little Dieter Needs to Fly," upon which it is based, are the differences between art and commerce in a nutshell. Although the drama is taut and terrifically acted, it is pretty standard fare. However, both were directed by Werner Herzog, who is more familiar and comfortable with the elemental hazards of arduous location shooting - in dramas like "Fitzcarraldo" and "Aguirre: The Wrath of God," and in documentaries like "Lessons of Darkness" and "Grizzly Man" - than the commercial challenges of working in Hollywood.
Coming soon Scheduled to open in area theaters next weekend (May 21) are: - MacGruber, the latest in a long, mostly ignoble line of "Saturday Night Live" sketch characters to transition to the big screen - in this case, Will Forte's clueless, mullet-coiffed soldier of fortune, bearer of 16 Purple Hearts, three Congressional Medals of Honor and seven presidential medals of bravery. MacGruber's been in remission in the 10 years since his fiance was killed, but now his country needs him to ferret out a nuclear warhead stolen by his sworn enemy, Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer). Joining him in the R-rated hunt is an elite team of experts, including Ryan Phillippe and fellow "SNL" player Kristen Wiig.
The Best Documentary Oscar to be handed out next month could go to a film made by a director who won't reveal his name and that even admiring movie critics concede could be a bunch of hooey. Welcome to the state of documentary films circa 2011, as makers push the form in ways that some see as destructive. From "Exit Through the Gift Shop" and "Catfish" to "I'm Still Here," more documentary films are blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction and being charged with deliberately playing loose with the facts.
... documentaries as "Grizzly Man" and "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" - was accused of making up a scene a...
A friend loves to ask the question, "If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one food available, what would it be?" The asker can't imagine living without unsweetened cornbread, and that's her choice. Other friends select chocolate, beef and sweets.
... fresh, not processed, foods that trendy dieters adhere to, he said. You can have those grilled mea...Lucosky wants to fix the meal a dieter needs to fit Weight Watchers, South Beach or other plan...
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