In brief, Werner Herzog has checked into New Orleans and metaphysical despair is loosed upon Bourbon Street.

NEWYORKER: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Also discusses works by Werner Herzog, K8 Hardy, Wu Tsang, Sarah Michelson, LaToya Rub Frazier, Mike Kelley, and Vincent Fecteau.

NEWYORKER: Not Like the Other Ones

We get Richard Jenkins, Robert Duvall, Werner Herzog with eyes of blue ice, and, in the roles of ordinary sufferers, Alexia Fast and James Martin Kelly.

NEWYORKER: Jack Reacher

"Robert Gardner took it out of that super-dry realm and put it in a more poetic form, " said Mr. Mayet, who also took inspiration from filmmakers like Werner Herzog and Jean Rouch.

WSJ: Repertory Film: External Influences

Until then, the choice of formats and how to make use of them is a decision best left to directors, like the 3D projects he mentions are currently under way from Martin Scorsese and Werner Herzog.

ENGADGET: Roger Ebert gives 3D thumbs down, shocking headlines two thumbs up

The cinematographer John Bailey is shooting a portrait of Werner Herzog, the soulful, disaster-prone German director, at the same time that Herzog and Zak Penn, a crass American screenwriter-producer, go off to Loch Ness to make a film about our spiritual need for monsters.

NEWYORKER: Incident at Loch Ness

The indefatigable Werner Herzog has made a brilliant documentary about an American saint and fool Timothy Treadwell, a failed actor and California surfer who fell in love with the grizzly bears in Alaska and who spent a dozen summers with the bears, usually alone and always unarmed.

NEWYORKER: Grizzly Man