Werner Herzog Picks His 5 Favorite Films - If one can characterize Stanley Kubrick by his complete control over the medium and his dogged insistence on staying within 30 miles of his house when shooting a movie, even if it means dressing up a London factory to look like Hue, Vietnam as he did for Full Metal Jacket, then Werner Herzog can be characterized as his opposite. Herzog’s movies are strange, messy and ecstatic, a far cry from the chilly aloofness of Kubrick. In both his feature films and his documentaries, Herzog uses his camera to uncover new layers of nature, experience and the human psyche.
And there have been few filmmakers more willing to shoot films in rugged, exotic places as Herzog – from Antarctica to the Amazonian rainforest. In fact, a number of his most notorious shoots seem more designed to test the endurance of the cast and crew than to produce a movie. His film Fitzcarraldo, for example, is about a guy who has the visionary idea to haul a riverboat over a mountain in the Amazon rainforest. D.W. Science and Cooking. Walter Cronkite Interview. Walter Cronkite is the former CBS Evening News anchorman, whose commentary defined issues and events in America for almost two decades. Cronkite, whom a major poll once named the "most trusted figure" in American public life, often saw every nuance in his nightly newscasts scrutinized by politicians, intellectuals, and fellow journalists for clues to the thinking of mainstream America.
In contrast, Cronkite viewed himself as a working journalist, epitomized by his title of "managing editor," of the CBS Evening News. His credo, adopted from his days as a wire service reporter, was to get the story, "fast, accurate, and unbiased"; his trademark exit line ws, "And that's the way it is. " After working at a public relations firm, for newspapers, and in small radio stations throughout the Midwest, in l939 Cronkite joined United Press (UP) to cover World War II. Though he had earlier rejected an offer from Edward R.
Murrow, Cronkite joined CBS in 1950. -Albert Auster WALTER CRONKITE. Walter Cronkite ~ About Walter Cronkite | American Masters. “Walter’s career curve and the curve of network television absolutely dovetailed. And, and he held that position for so long under such vastly changing circumstances … that it seemed to most people that as they got their first television set, Walter and CBS NEWS had joined their family.”– Historian and journalist David Halberstam He was the man who told us that President Kennedy had been shot, the man who told us that we had put a man on the moon, and the man who told us that we couldn’t win the war in Vietnam.
During the 20 years he anchored the evening news on CBS, Walter Cronkite became a daily presence in the American home. Building on the legacy of Edward R. Murrow, he brought CBS to the pinnacle of prestige and popularity in television news. And when he left CBS, both began to ebb away. Walter Cronkite’s life and his work followed a simple, consistent line. It isn’t enough to say that he was the “most trusted man in America,” as determined by a 1972 Oliver Quayle poll. Edward R. In Memoriam: Walter Cronkite | Great Performances. Interviews - Walter Cronkite | Smoke In The Eye. "The Twentieth Century" with Walter Cronkite (1965) ‘One PM Central Standard Time’ Review: Documentary Considers JFK, Walter Cronkite. Avoiding Armageddon . Walter Cronkite.
It was as a United Press correspondent that Cronkite covered World War II — landing with the invading Allied troops in North Africa, covering the battle of the North Atlantic in 1942, taking part in the Normandy beachhead assaults in 1944 and participating as one of the first newsmen in B-17 raids over Germany. After reporting the German surrender, Cronkite established United Press bureaus in Europe, was named United Press bureau chief in Brussels and covered the Nuremberg trials of Goering, Hess and other top Nazis. From 1946 to 1948, he was chief correspondent for United Press in Moscow. In July 1950, Cronkite joined CBS News in Washington as a correspondent and was anchorman for their political convention and election coverage from 1952 to 1980. He assumed his duties on the "CBS Evening News" on April 16, 1962, which began as a 15-minute broadcast.
Cronkite was the only journalist to be voted among the top 10 "most influential decision-makers in America" in surveys conducted by U.S. Reporting America at War . The Reporters . Walter Cronkite. Reporting America at War . Walter Cronkite . On Censorship. WALTER CRONKITE:On Censorship [The day's stories] would depend entirely on the action. It might very well be a feature story of some bravery that I witnessed or heard about, or it would be the difficulty or success a unit might have had in action. The unit might be as small as a platoon and could be as large as a brigade; it was just whatever was going on. We were right with the soldiers — no problem with access whatsoever. We talked to them; they talked to us, G.I.s and officers alike.
In the evening we got back to press camp and wrote the story. [Censorship] would begin with a simple statement: "You can't print that! " I didn't run into censorship [on stories of servicemen suffering battle fatigue]. They should have had censorship in Vietnam. The point is that in any war situation, this is the most intimate commitment that the American government can make of its people.