News about Werner Herzog

Does BBC world affairs editor John Simpson regret getting involved in the Beeb's Hamas coverage? 'I've been in for a lot of abuse, threats, and taunts in the last few days,' the old trouper wails. I've been shouted at in the streets.' However, there's one good thing - you can't decide who your friends are at times like this. And aren't the only ones who aren't.' Do tell, Jonners!

Galen Yuen, a 55-year-old boy who died in 2015, established himself as a minor role stalwart during the 1980s, when he appeared alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. But before becoming a spian, Yuen was a founding member of the Suey Sing gang in Chinatown, pimping out sex employees and carrying a pistol. Yuen battled heroin use and went to prison when he was forced into a life of crime in the 1960s. Since his niece, journalist Maya Lin Sugarman, began a podcast about his life, the late actor's unknown past has gained renewed attention.

FEMAIL recalls the remarkable tale of the sole survivor of LANSA flight 508 in 1971, after four Colombian siblings were discovered alive after 40 days in the jungle following a plane crash. Juliane Koepcke, who had been raised by her German zoologist parents in Panguana, Peru, was discovered after the search for LANSA flight 508, which crashed in 1971, was called off. As she swam and walked for 11 days, she credited her in-depth knowledge of the Amazon Rainforest with her longevity. The pupil, who had just graduated from high school (bottom right), boarded the plane from Lima to Panguana on Christmas Eve, and Maria (pictured top right). She has previously described the first 30 minutes of the flight as uneventful, before it became a tornado and was thrown around, and then struck by lightning. Juliane is pictured on left, at the 1998 crash site. Now inset: Juliane is in possession.

Dracula's first film film adaptation appeared in 1922 with the German silent film Nosferatu (left), which was directed by F.W. Murnau is a fictional character. Lead character Count Orlock, played by Max Schreck, was seen writhing over his wife's estate agent in what was a loose adapation of Stoker's novel. Nosferatu's bald head, pointed ears, hooked nose, and hunched shoulders - a figure portrayed by one reviewer as the'strangest and most hideous leading man of all cinema' - is immediately recognisable. Bela Lugosi was the Count in the 1931 American version (centre), the newest Dracula adaption to stand the test of time. Even though his appearance differed sharply from the cadaverous white-haired old man of Stoker's book, his result - complete with black slicked back hair and sinister cape - is still regarded as the best by many analysts. Dracula was depicted in ten separate films by Christopher Lee. Dracula AD 1972 (right), his penultimate outing, was mocked by critics as the bloodsucker came to 1970s London, but fans have a long love for him. In 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre (inset bottom left), directed by celebrated German filmmaker Werner Herzog, Nosferatu made his own comeback. Both critics and viewers were raving over the film's popularity. This month, viewers were treated to Nicolas Cage's more light-hearted depiction of Dracula (inset bottom right) with the release of Renfield, which focuses on his servant, played by Nicholas Hoult

Nicolas Cage's own top five Nicolas Cage movies on Thursday's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS, while promoting his latest Dracula film. The 59-year-old Academy Award-winning actor surprisingly did not pick his huge box office hits as favorites. 'I'm going to start with Pig,' Nicolas said. 'I love Mandy, Panos' film.' Martin Scorsese's directorial film Bringing Out the Dead has me hooked. I loved Bad Lieutenant [by] Werner Herzog. Joe, David Gordon Green's film, 'I loved a film called Joe.'

CHRISTOHER STEVENS: Werner Herzog, a film-maker, told me how Pompeii's last hours looked in his film The Fire Within: Storyville. Human bodies are in grotesquely twisting positions, clawing at the atmosphere for air. Cattle and mules were flooded with mud, but they were soon buried by falling ash. The images were shot by French volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft over a decades of international travel, racing from one blazing explosion to another, according to the authors.