Project Herzog continues apace. Last night I saw what I considered to be that rarest of things in a Herzog film, a dud -- The Wild Blue Yonder (2005). But even when's he's not at his very best, WH is still riveting.
Here he re-contextualizes film stock (aboard the Space Shuttle, under the Arctic ocean) to tell a fairly straightforward sci-fi story. (Something he started doing in the amazing 1992 Lessons of Darkness, which is by no means a failure at all.) But the technique just doesn't work here.
That said, like pizza, bad WH still delights. Here, it's the stunning soundtrack. He recorded music concurrently for this project along with music for The White Diamond (2004), which I'll get to soon.
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