Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
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- 2 wins & 1 nomination
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Did you know
- TriviaHerzog says Elon Musk was very shy on camera, sometimes pausing for minutes at a time before replying to Werner Herzog's questions.
- Quotes
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: [Recalling the first internet message] Now, what was that first message? Many people don't know this.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: All we wanted to do was log in from our computer to a computer 400 miles to the north up at Stanford Research Institute.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: To log in, you have to type "L O G" and that machine was smart enough to type the "I N".
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: To make sure this was happening properly, we had our programmer and the programmer up north connected by a telephone handset, just to make sure it was going correctly.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: So Charlie typed the "L"
[Mimicking the conversation over the telephone handset]
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: and said "You get the 'L'?"
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Bill said, "Yup, got the L."
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Typed 'O'.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: "You get the 'O'?"
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: "Yup, got the 'O'."
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: Typed in the 'G' and crash! The SRI computer crashed.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock: So the first message ever on the internet was "LO", as in "lo and behold". We couldn't have asked for a more succinct, more powerful, more prophetic message than "LO".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Conan: Cobie Smulders/Werner Herzog/Lindsey Stirling (2016)
- SoundtracksDas Rheingold: Vorspiel
Composed by Richard Wagner
Performed by Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Simone Young
Courtesy of Naxos of America
"Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World" is Werner Herzog's latest documentary film, and it takes an extraordinary look at the Internet. There's plenty of screen time given to both how it affects humans, and the science behind it all. There's hackers and robots, as well as stories about Internet addiction and abuse. There's comedy, tragedy, horror-and it's all real, and it's really, really fascinating. Sometimes when a film covers a lot of material it becomes overwhelming, and tonally all over the place, but Herzog manages to balance everything just perfectly so the whole film works very well and never feels like too much.
There's plenty of fun to be had watching "Lo and Behold". It's not just an average, boring science documentary, it's a genuinely entertaining movie. Some of the most fascinating people you'll ever see are interviewed, and they tell some of the most fascinating stories you'll ever hear, and it's all filled with humor and, at times, even absurdity. It's fun to watch, and it will make you think. There's plenty of questions raised that are amazing, and there's plenty raised that are scary. It's a movie unlike any other I've seen be released this year, and it will blow your mind!
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- Aug 20, 2016
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- Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
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- Gross US & Canada
- $863,912
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $114,273
- Aug 21, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $765,796
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1