Unfortunately, Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn was not released last Friday due to continuing legal problems. A source told Hollywood Elsewhere that some materials had not been delivered to distributor MGM and that there was "still some remaining legal mess has not been sorted out yet by the production." (The roots of the whole situation are explained here.)

Fortunately, the film's release is rumored to have been rescheduled for May, and there is anyway a lot of activity on the Herzog front. He has reportedly just finished shooting for a new project in Antarctica, Cobra Verde has just been re-released, and a season of his documentaries, Herzog [Non] Fiction, will run at Film Forum between May 18 and June 7. Herzog has also announced an intriguing new film, Cheese and Worms, a historical piece which harks back to his earlier work; you can download the film's screenplay from its website, and read an interview with the screenwriter Alan Greenberg here.

And if that hasn't satisfied your Herzog hunger, you can learn the great man's views on documentaries over at The Hot Blog, read an interview with Herzog from last week where he talks about when he was shot by a sniper while being interviewed by Mark Kermode, and actually see the incident in the embedded video below.

# posted by Nick Dawson @ 4/04/2007 09:43:00 AM

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