Remember the great disaster movies of the 1970’s, films like The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, and Earthquake? The formula was simple: put as many stars as you could find in the path of a natural disaster and let God and Irwin Allen sort out the winners and losers. Credit Werner Herzog with resurrecting the genre. For his latest film, Queen of the Desert, Herzog collected a handful of household names, put them in a rickety vehicle, and crashed them over and over again. (more…)
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Queen of the Desert Review
Posted: March 27, 2015 in 2015 Berlinale, Drama, ReviewsTags: Damian Lewis, David Lean, Gertrude Bell, Holly Earl, James Franco, Lawrence of Arabia, Mark Lewis Jones, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson, Werner Herzog
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