Death Row
- Director: Werner Herzog
- Theatrical Release Date:
- Festivals: Berlin International Film Festival
Synopsis: Each of these film portraits begins with a long travelling shot towards the death chamber where the condemned individual will receive their lethal injection. Meanwhile, Werner Herzog’s off-screen voice pronounces that he is an opponent of the death sentence. Herzog’s gently formulated line in questioning succeeds in eliciting responses from his interviewees that are no less sensitive yet strangely matter-of-fact and seem to surface like disclosures from the depths of the human soul. [Synopsis courtesy of Berlin International Film Festival]
-
The Playlist News
First Look At Werner Herzog's New 'Death Row' Documentary Film
"I respect you but I don't have to like you...," director Werner Herzog says to one of the death row inmates in "Into The Abyss." That powerful documentary, an insightful, moving look at the repercussions of a crime and the harrowing burden of a death sentence, was easily one...
Read More »
-
The Playlist Reviews
Review: Restrained Werner Herzog Still Shines In Gripping 'Death Row' Series
The prologue of each of the four episodes of “Death Row” is the same: a restless camera prowls through the dismal ante-room, holding cell and injection chamber of an unnamed execution facility, while director Werner Herzog tells us in his familiar teutonic monotone that, as a German and a guest of t...
Read More »
fresh from the blogs
-
From the Wire: Biskind's Welles at Lunch Book Sounds ...Criticwire
-
'Prometheus 2' Will Use 'Transcendence' Writer Jack ...The Playlist
-
Who Will Play Thurgood Marshall In 'Devil In The Grove' ...Shadow and Act
-
LAFF Review: Lake Bell's 'In a World' a Hilarious Feminist ...Thompson on Hollywood
-
Melissa McCarthy and the Definition of SuccessWomen and Hollywood
-
Not As “Himself”: Three Early Alan Arkin Screen Pe ...Press Play
-
Good Night, Lost Boy(s)The Lost Boys
-
The Real Lone Ranger—At AuctionLeonard Maltin
