The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” is a documentary by Werner Herzog concerning the oldest ...

Like many an adventurer-reporter before him — like H.M. Stanley searching Africa for Dr. Livingstone, or today’s brave, reckless photojournalists risking their lives in war zones — Werner Herzog loves ...

One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams documents a secret wonder of the world, the Chauvet cave — a subterranean gallery of 300 animal images ...

Very, very few people have been allowed into the Chauvet cave in Southeastern France since it was discovered in 1994 and found to contain ancient cave paintings dating back more than 30,000 years.

In recent years, Werner Herzog’s sly observations on the ways the universe in wondrously strange documentaries such as “Grizzly Man” and “Encounters at the End of the World” have taken on cult status ...

The hottest thing in the art world is 30,000 years old: Unseen, virtually since they were rediscovered by archeologists in 1994, the cave pictures near Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, in southern France, are said ...

Werner Herzog penetrates the surface of reality more deeply when he projects his own obsessions onto the landscape. In his 3-D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, he takes his cameras into France’s ...

In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, filmmaker Werner Herzog is moved almost to poetry as he contemplates drawings made 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet Cave in southern France. The acclaimed documentarian ...

One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams documents a secret wonder of the world, the Chauvet cave—a subterranean gallery of 300 animal images ...

A Slate film critic said that Werner Herzog’s latest film, Cave of Forgotten Dream, a three-dimensional documentary about 30,000-year-old paintings in the Chauvet cave in southern France, “may be the ...

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