Werner Herzog says The Mandalorian is 'cinema back at its best'
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Few living filmmakers are more acclaimed than Werner Herzog, which is why it was a little surprising when he turned up to play a by-the-numbers bad guy in the new Star Wars series The Mandalorian.
But if you think Herzog is slumming it a bit, Herzog doesn't agree; at a recent screening, he somewhat inexplicably declared that The Mandalorian, which is a TV show, as "cinema back at its best" — an argument that would probably make Martin Scorsese's head explode. Read more at Indiewire.
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Scott Meslow is the entertainment editor for TheWeek.com. He has written about film and television at publications including The Atlantic, POLITICO Magazine, and Vulture.
