Werner Herzog is speaking to Michael Joseph Perry. He is a convicted killer, but his boyishness is disarming, almost exculpatory. ... In Into the Abyss, Herzog never appears onscreen, ...

Into the Abyss Werner Herzog's death-row record. By AARON MESH. November 22, 2011 at 4:01 pm PST. As Werner Herzog softens from Teutonic maniac into shutterbug German tourist, his documentaries ...

Werner Herzog’s new film, Into The Abyss, opens with a shot of the Reverend Fred Lopez, chaplain of the “death house,” in Huntsville, Texas, standing in front of a field of crosses in a ...

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life On one level, Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" is an appeal to end capital punishment, but it's not the kind of documentary that drives policy change.

Werner Herzog recently premiered his documentary, Into the Abyss, at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, to polarizing reviews. It deals with death row inmates in the time before their ...

Werner Herzog on Capital Punishment, Interviewing Inmates and the Notes he Never Got (Q&A) "On Death Row," the four part docu-series follow up to Herzog's festival darling, "Into the Abyss ...

Werner Herzog is easily one of the most prolific filmmakers of his generation and continues to make films that are both compelling and mysterious examinations of the human soul. With thematic threads ...

Nearly every Werner Herzog movie has at least one Holy Crap moment, and the filmmaker’s gripping new death row documentary Into the Abyss, opening today in select theaters, is no exception ...

Considering Werner Herzog’s fascination with humankind’s relationship to the natural world, you would assume his latest documentary “Into the Abyss” has an oceanic or geological thrust.

Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" is the second high-profile 2011 documentary to focus on a murder for which men were sentenced to death.. But it's a far cry from "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory," the ...

If I were evaluating Werner Herzog's new documentary Into the Abyss solely on the basis of entertainment value, I could tell you that it's great. It's not an instant classic like Grizzly Man, but ...

Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life On one level, Werner Herzog's "Into the Abyss" is an appeal to end capital punishment, but it's not the kind of documentary that drives policy change.