Friday, February 28, 2025

In grandiose splendor

This is a 1992 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. Shot in post-Gulf War Kuwait. The imagery of it is devastated and lifeless landscape. Oil fields in flames. It's an apocalyptic vision of destruction in the wake of war. The images are powerful, almost hypnotizing.

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Once in a lifetime alone

Film critics don't like these. Or they won't admit that they do. The general public doesn't necessarily like them either, but ...