What is in a look? Bruno Schleinstein (who died recently) should know; star of Kasper Hauser and Stroszek, Werner Herzog built part of his cinema on Bruno S' look. The 'look' appears whenever Kinski is on screen; it was a single look in an early German film of Kinski's that lead to the Herzog/Kinski collaboration. Herzog even sees the 'look' in Grizzly Man-in the bear; he is impressed by the ursine gaze that the creature fixes on people seeing only food and nothing else. Bruno S would have been a natural to play Kafka's K; he wrote songs and performed them on the streets of Berlin; one of his songs told of a poor boy who grows up wishing for a little horse which turns up in later life pulling his mother's hearse. One of Thomas Cromwell's portraits has a penetrating 'look' which Mark Rylance captures in the TV Wolf Hall; interestingly he got it from Brad Pitt in the Jesse James movie.
What is in a look? Bruno Schleinstein (who died recently) should know; star of Kasper Hauser and Stroszek, Werner Herzog built part of his cinema on Bruno S' look. The 'look' appears whenever Kinski is on screen; it was a single look in an early German film of Kinski's that lead to the Herzog/Kinski collaboration. Herzog even sees the 'look' in Grizzly Man-in the bear; he is impressed by the ursine gaze that the creature fixes on people seeing only food and nothing else. Bruno S would have been a natural to play Kafka's K; he wrote songs and performed them on the streets of Berlin; one of his songs told of a poor boy who grows up wishing for a little horse which turns up in later life pulling his mother's hearse. One of Thomas Cromwell's portraits has a penetrating 'look' which Mark Rylance captures in the TV Wolf Hall; interestingly he got it from Brad Pitt in the Jesse James movie.
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