German film director Werner Herzog made a promise to his friend, Dieter Dengler, a decorated Vietnam war hero he often visited at his home in Marin County. Herzog vowed to make a movie about his ...
Helmer Werner Herzog has long delighted in smudging the line between documentary and fiction. His latest, "Rescue Dawn," goes an intriguing step further by dramatizing a story Herzog already told once ...
A more intimate “Deer Hunter,” “Rescue Dawn” tells the amazing, mostly true story of Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a German boy who survived the ravages of World War II-era Germany and the ...
It was supposed to be a "routine" bombing mission, but it becomes a lot less routine when the squadron crosses over into Laos: Dieter Dengler's plane is brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Though he ...
Christian Bale doesn’t wear tights, a mask or cape in his latest film, “Rescue Dawn,” but his character is no less heroic than Batman. Bale, currently filming the next Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” ...
In 1998, Werner Herzog released the documentary "Little Dieter Needs to Fly," about the German-American pilot and Vietnam POW Dieter Dengler, to much fanfare among critics and documentarians. In this ...
The dreamy prisoner-of-war account “Rescue Dawn” is the work of Werner Herzog, yet it is not the work of Werner Herzog. It is an impersonal personal film, a paradox attracting all sorts of other ...
Iconoclastic -- and irregular -- German director Werner Herzog already has covered much of the tropical terrain of his long-delayed action film in his 1997 documentary "Little Dieter Needs To Fly." ...
Toward the end of World War II, a little German boy named Dieter Dengler looked out a second-story window of his house in the Black Forest and saw an American fighter plane skim past him, almost close ...
From the opening credits of Rescue Dawn—a mesmerizing overture of haunting music and archival footage of napalm bombing—one can sense that this is not going to be a traditional war film. Anyone ...
“Little Dieter Needs to Fly is not a great Werner Herzog film, but because it’s a good Werner Herzog film, it’s of greater interest than almost anything else out there at the moment.” So began my ...
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