Episode #826

Herzog, Green Screen, Lang

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Friday, June 29, 2007

Studio 360 escapes into the jungle. Werner Herzog talks with Kurt Andersen about his new movie, Rescue Dawn, which tells the true story of the mind-boggling heroics and survival skills of Vietnam War pilot Dieter Dengler. Movie actors tell us what it’s like working with a green screen -— where their computer generated costars get filled in later. And singer k.d. lang looks back on her Canadian roots.

Studio 360 Episode 826, Herzog, Green Screen, Lang Werner Herzog on the set of Rescue Dawn (Lena Herzog)

Green Screen

In the movies, computer-generated effects make impossible fantasies seem totally real -– but as Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky discovered, that means actors have to work harder than ever.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog is committed to authentic filmmaking. For his 1982 movie Fitzcarraldo, Herzog had his crew hoist a steamboat – a full-scale vessel weighing hundreds of tons – up and over a mountaintop. And for his latest movie, Rescue Dawn, he took his cast and crew deep ...

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Aha Moment: Optimus Prime

If you were a kid in the 1980's, chances are you (or your little brother) played with Transformers. The mind-blowing thing about the action figures – if you were, say, nine – was that you could fold and twist them from a robot into an object, like a plane or ...

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k.d. lang

Singer k.d. lang has embraced a bewildering range of musical genres -- from cowgirl punk to Tony Bennett standards -- but her fans don't seem to mind. She joins Kurt to look back on her career and talk about her roots in rural Canada.

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