3-D movies are here to stay whether you like them or not. Most seem to be either Hollywood blockbusters or gimmicky remakes like The Hole 3-D; that’s not to say there’s nothing to get excited about. Tron Legacy is coming out soon in 3-D, and who wouldn’t want to watch that? It’s got Jeff Bridges in it, The Dude. Say no more. But a film that could well trounce even that is Werner Herzog’s new 3-D documentary which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) last week. Herzog was given unprecedented access and allowed to filmed inside the Chauvet caves in southern France which are home to the earliest cave paintings known to man. It was supposedly inspired by this article in the New Yorker by Judith Thurman.The film’s called Cave of Forgotten Dreams and if you’ve been fortunate enough to see any of Werner Herzog’s documentaries like Grizzly Man—about a man who went to live with the grizzly bears in Alaska and ended up being killed and eaten by one—or Wings of Hope, about a German woman who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian jungle (strangely Herzog could’ve been on the same flight as he was location scouting for Aguirre, Wrath of God, but his reservation was cancelled because of an itinerary change) and her struggle to survive and find help, you’ll know that his films are fascinating with the added pleasure of listening to his soothing, methodical German voice and his peculiar but insightful musings on the subject. This one looks to be just as intriguing as his feature films and documentaries, with the Torontoist claiming it’s, “one of the best uses of the medium [3-D] to date”.And as an added bonus, below is the celebrated documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, directed by Les Blank. It features Werner Herzog chowing down on his foot wear after saying to his friend and fellow documentary maker Errol Morris, regarding the film Gates of Heaven, “If you make this film, I’ll eat my shoe.” It got made, and so the shoe was eaten, after being cooked in garlic, herbs, duck fat, Tabasco sauce, and stock for 5 hours.Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
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