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'The Happy Worm Bait Shop in the holy land': 5 Great Herzogian Moments in 'On Death Row'

9 March 2012 7:24 AM, PST | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

 Werner Herzog's "On Death Row," which starts March 9 on the Investigation Discovery channel, is a strange creation, half a continuation of ideas explored in "Into the Abyss" and half a true-crime special. The work screened as a single three-hour piece at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, but on TV will play out over four weeks in hour-long installments with introductions by Paula Zahn. Each installment is built around an interview (or in one case, a pair of interviews) with a death row inmate in Texas or Florida. One of these subjects, George Rivas, was executed last week; the others await the setting of dates or news of appeals. Each episode begins with Herzog intoning that "as a German coming from a different historical background, and being a guest in the United States, I respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment." But the show could never be »

- Alison Willmore

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'The Happy Worm Bait Shop in the holy land': 5 Great Herzogian Moments in 'On Death Row'

9 March 2012 7:24 AM, PST | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »

 Werner Herzog's "On Death Row," which starts March 9 on the Investigation Discovery channel, is a strange creation, half a continuation of ideas explored in "Into the Abyss" and half a true-crime special. The work screened as a single three-hour piece at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, but on TV will play out over four weeks in hour-long installments with introductions by Paula Zahn. Each installment is built around an interview (or in one case, a pair of interviews) with a death row inmate in Texas or Florida. One of these subjects, George Rivas, was executed last week; the others await the setting of dates or news of appeals. Each episode begins with Herzog intoning that "as a German coming from a different historical background, and being a guest in the United States, I respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment." But the show could never be »

- Alison Willmore

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