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May 5, 2024 · The visionary filmmaker Werner Herzog has described his friend and kindred nomadic spirit Bruce Chatwin as a ‘voyager of the mind'.[1] Herzog remembers Chatwin this way: "he had a profound, existential, curiosity about the world. He would follow a thread, and he would not be stopped from pursuing that thread and figuring it out."
Apr 21, 2024 · Any uneven moments in this film’s construction are smoothed over by the sheer authenticity of what Herzog puts on screen, from his own distinctive narration, to gorgeous excerpts from Bruce Chatwin’s writings, to the sounds and images that make up the strange worlds that both men were fascinated in.
May 2, 2024 · Call it true crime if you will, but this documentary is much more. Hailed as one of the most important documentaries of the 2000s, it is a testament to friendship and love, a real-life thriller, and a political denouncement all in one. Watch Now On Amazon Prime. 2. Inside Job (2010)
6 days ago · Any uneven moments in this film’s construction are smoothed over by the sheer authenticity of what Herzog puts on screen, from his own distinctive narration, to gorgeous excerpts from Bruce Chatwin’s writings, to the sounds and images that make up the strange worlds that both men were fascinated in.
5 days ago · Chatwin’s most commercially successful work, The Songlines (1987), is both a study of Australian Aboriginal creation myths and a philosophical reverie on the nature of nomads. His last novel was Utz (1988; filmed 1992). What Am I Doing Here?, a collection of Chatwin’s essays, was published posthumously.
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4 days ago · Like Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, his documentary from earlier in the year, Fireball (co-directed with Clive Oppenheimer, with whom he made 2016’s Into the Inferno) is...
Apr 23, 2024 · We’re eager to get there already–we’ve watched every doc available from Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin to 180° South to Somebody Feed Phil’s edible episode on Santiago. Hell, we even watched footage from the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Santiago in 2016!
