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...invitation was formally handed to Israel's U.N. Ambassador Chaim Herzog by his Egyptian counterpart, Esmat Abdel Meguid, at a secret meeting in New York. In another display of post-Jerusalem good-fellowship, Ambassadors to Washington Simcha Dinitz of Israel and Ashraf Ghorbal of Egypt were joint guests of honor at a Sunday dinner given by ABC's Barbara Walters...
...Abdel Meguid walked out during an anti-Sadat diatribe by his Syrian colleague, though he later cast Egypt's vote for a Syrian-inspired resolution condemning Israel's occupation of Arab lands. During the debate he smiled and nodded through a speech by Israel's Chaim Herzog. In his address, Abdel Meguid had said, "Let us have a fifth battle for peace," referring to four previous wars between Israel and the Arabs that left 10,010 Israelis dead and 28,824 on the Arab sides. Echoed Herzog: "We accept the challenge. We are prepared...
Aguirre: The Wrath of God. Many people don't like this Werner Herzog film, which is based on the true story of Aguirre the Madman, a mutinous conquistador who led an expeditionary force down the Amazon River on a disastrous search for gold and glory. Critics complain that Herzog treats his subjects too mechanically, and that the film is visually stunning but thematically vacuous. But such criticism misses the point: Herzog's relentlessly realistic re-enactment of the trip--of the assumption of power by a ruthless brute who rapidly develop into a raving megalomamac and whose subordinates lack either...
Stroszek. The latest film bearing the stamp of the trendy German director, Werner Herzog, is an appropriate exhibit of what happens when the filmmaker pours his innards into the camera and lets the script slide. This would-be saga abouty three losers who flee the slums of Berlin for the promise of America delivers some startling imagery all right, but the story's fascination with the daily trampling of a society's outcasts serves precious little creative purpose. Witnessing the humiliation and coldness meted out to whores and alcoholics does not do your head much good, and the gratuitous...
SETTING ASIDE an evening to endure this sort of film sounds bad enough in theory; the reality is even worse. Herzog does not film scenes, he leers at them, trying to extract every droplet of meaning and mood his flabby creative muscles can muster. And the sluggish screenplay gives little relief. You never get the feeling that much has been lost in the translation because there isn't much to be lost in the first place. That Herzog can summon the raw nerve to inflict this unredeeming and unredeemable trash on an audience speaks volumes about what obligations he feels...