Our fifth film in our Summer Series comes to us from one of my favorite directors, Werner Herzog. We will be watching his second feature film made in 1970, Even Dwarfs Started Small.
Even Dwarfs Started Small (German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) is a 1970 West German absurdist comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. Dwarfs confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director, also dwarfs, in a display of mayhem.
Alex Peterson of Spectrum Culture wrote this in his review, "Herzog has never been shy about speaking in depth about his films—a happy fact of film history provided by one of its key artists—but with this one he doesn’t have much to explain: Even Dwarfs Started Small is about a young filmmaker with a killer eye and access to a haunting location and incredible subjects, stringing a story together on the sheer strength of his creativity and willpower. See it to find out where the mind behind the films Fitzcarraldo and Stroszek came from. Werner Herzog’s second feature film is a small, strange, black-and-white movie shot in 1969 and yet it’s still a movie that matters, because Herzog’s career is still going strong. He hasn’t gone the way of other aging greats who piddled out irrelevant films late in life after making era-defining work in their heyday. No, Herzog is another Godard, just as influential in film history, a legend who cannot be stopped at any age because he lives and bleeds film."
We will be meeting Thursday, August 23rd at 5:30
Here's a trailer:
Hope to see you there!
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