Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Delivers.

Werner's insightful and fascinating to listen to, but he also comes off as the kind of guy you could totally hang out with, have a beer, maybe eat a shoe

I love the fact that he follows through on his promise, that he cooks the shoe properly, with vegetables and everything, then eats almost the whole thing. Herzog is so awesome. Fascinating to listen to, too. The cactus anecdote was pretty sick.

Hey, I have a bet going on: If the euro falls to 0.85 dollars, I'll have to shave a cow (don't know if that's even possible, maybe a sheep). I liked the "Gold Rush" comparisons, quite a special film...

Lol. Herzog is awesome. Further proof hes a god among men.

yeah that's right you eat that shoe herzog yum yum eat it up

It's always a treat to hear what Werner Herzog has to say. Strange and thoroughly entertaining.

Herzog keeps a promise. Disjointed but Herzog's ramblings are powerful and really draw you in, plus it's always fun to watch him do something weird.

Not as much eating of the shoe as I was hoping for, but there's plenty of Herzog inspiring young film-makers, laying out his opinions on postmodernist Western society circa '80s, and a few good cooking tips. This also works as a pretty good advertisement for Gates of Heaven and a few of Herzog's own films. Good on him for keeping his word

"TV. It kills us. And talkshows... they'll kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare Holy War on what we see everyday on TV. [...] Real war against Bonanza and Rawhide." D'oh. Why didn't I think of that? Obviously the actual shoeeating rocks. I can't imagine any shoeeating ever surpassing this. "Give us adequate images. We lack adequate images. Our civilization doesn't have adequate images."

Fuck the 'Don't ask questions bigger than you are.' guy.

Surprisingly insightful and hilarious. I could listen to Herzog talk all day.

that's why he's my hero

rofling

WTF?!?!

Cool little mini-doc about an apocryphal incident in film history. Not worth watching if you aren't already familiar with Herzog's antics, but a treat to anyone who is.

Herzog rules.

"It's not self-destructive to jump into a cactus..."

Herzog is a man of his word.

Ok, so it's cool to see Herzog do something crazy but there's not much of interest beyond that.

For what the subject matter is, it's actually quite interesting. Kinda of a long watch though.

Nothing much to say here. It passes the time, but it doesn't quite deliver on its promise. Not much shoe eating all. Damn you Werner!

Werner Herzog: "If we speak of television it's just... ridiculous and destructive. It kills us. And talk-shows will kill us. They kill our language. So we have to declare holy war against what we see every single day on television, commercials and... I think there should be real war against commercials, real war against talk-shows, real war against Bonanza, Rawhide or these things."

The description (and title) of this film is not quite accurate: "nibbles at" would have been closer to the truth.

Well, he did it.

Neat and silly. Werner is always entertaining.

Delicious!

Hilarious. Herzog is a crazy crazy nutter but I love him.

Respect the man, he knows how to work around the show biz.

Wasted Potential. Needed more shoe-eating while contemplating on the meaning of life, or the lack of it, but also simply more shoe-eating in general.

Very amusing short film.

While Herzog always says something interesting and it is surprisingly amusing to watch someone eat their shoe; this is overall not really worth watching if you don't have a lot of time to spare.

You could almost call Blank's films a Cinema of Cuisine given his focus on food. I love how this fits right into his m.o.

Herzog is fascinating as always. Not just because he eats a shoe, but because he does it while spouting off some pretty profound stuff. I love this guy.

Was watching Conan O'Brien when they brought this up. Not much going on..

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgbbjPQqgfg
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE6UTrwN3RQ&NR=1

He eats some shoe & shares some knowledge. His thoughts on the nature of talk shows is a bit of a premonition towards reality television...

d00d, Herzog is the fucking man.

Ha, brilliant.