Austin Film Festival 2006

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Walking to Werner
Linas Phillips
Categories: Documentary Feature Competition
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Run time: 93 min. | USA
Regional Premiere In the winter of 1974, German director Werner Herzog walked from Munich to Paris to see his dying friend, film critic Lotte Eisner, hoping that by making the journey on foot he would somehow keep her alive. In summer 2005, hoping simply to meet the man who had inspired him to make movies, filmmaker Linas Phillips made his own pilgrimage, walking 1,200 miles from Seattle to Herzog’s Los Angeles home. Braving freeway traffic, weather, the California Highway Patrol, and his own self-doubt, Linas fulfills a dream that parallels the filmic dreams accomplished by his hero, and as one marginal roadside character after another shares a story with him – redemptive, tragic, funny – Linas’ dream becomes much bigger than he originally intended.
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One of my favorite films of the festival so far. Completely original, and unlike any other doc playing this year. Linas is engaging and charismatic, making you root for him throughout his borderline-psychotic quest. The characters he meets on his 1200 mile journey are truly memorable, and the stories he gets from them are sometimes funny, sometimes haunting, but always unexpected. A few moments, most notably the story a junky tells of her life and her faith, are as riveting as anything you will see in any doc anywhere. And yet all told against the backdrop of a completely nutty "mission." A fitting tribute to Herzog. If you're looking for something unexpected, and something you are likely not to see anywhere else, Walking to Werner gets my highest recommendation.
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