The German film-maker Werner Herzog, aged 67, will head the committee that select the winners of the 2010 Golden and Silver Bear awards next February.
Werner Herzog is perhaps the most mediocre, vacuous and tedious of modern German directors – not as cerebral and intellectual as his German contemporaries directors Rainer Werner Fassbaender and Volker Schlöndorff and not as popular and dynamic as Wim Wenders or Margaretha von Trotta.
In spite of his limited talents Werner Herzog has made more than 50 films in almost 50-years of movie making. His feature films inculde; Aguirre – The Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, and Fitzcarraldo. Two of his films were entered in the Venice film festival of this year; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans – with Nicolas Cage, and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, with Willem Dafoe and Michael Shannon.
The Berlin film festival -in German known as the Berlinale – is considered in international film-makers importance just below Cannes and alongside Venice. Scotish actress Tilda Swinton hosted last year’s Berlinale.
The Berlinale will run in 2010 from February 11th til 21st.
