Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Werner Herzog Rupert Maconick
Written by	Werner Herzog
Music by	Mark Degli Antoni Sebastian Steinberg
Cinematography	Peter Zeitlinger
Edited by	Marco Capalbo
Production companies	NetScout Pereira & O'Dell Entertainment Saville Productions Skellig Rock
Distributed by	Magnolia Pictures
Release dates	January 23, 2016 (2016-01-23) (Sundance)
Running time	98 minutes^[1]
Country	United States
Language	English

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Werner Herzog. In it, Herzog ponders the existential impact of the Internet, robotics, AI, the Internet of Things, and more on human life.^[2] The film premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival,^[3]^[4] and was sponsored by the company NetScout.^[5] The film contains interviews with Bob Kahn, Elon Musk, Sebastian Thrun, Ted Nelson, and other leaders of the technology world.^[6]^[7]

Reception

Lo and Behold has received generally favorable reviews from critics.^[8] On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 93% approval rating based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5 out of 10.^[9] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100 based on seven critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[8]

References

↑ "Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
↑ "Computer love: watch the first trailers for Werner Herzog's documentary about our relationship to machines", The Guardian, January 19, 2016
↑ "Watch the trailer for Werner Herzog's new documentary about the internet", The Verge, January 4, 2016
↑ "Werner Herzog laments the internet in the Lo And Behold, Reveries Of The Connected World trailer", The A.V. Club, January 4, 2016
↑ "Sundance: Werner Herzog's 'Lo and Behold' plumbs the Internet's impact", Mashable, January 21, 2016
↑ "The Legendary Filmmaker Werner Herzog Has Made A Documentary about Robotics and A.I.", io9, January 20, 2016
↑ "New Game in Town", TheTedNelson YouTube
1 2 "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World". Metacritic. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
↑ "Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World". rottentomatoes.com. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2016-02-13.

External links

Werner Herzog

Feature films	Signs of Life (1968) Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) Fata Morgana (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Heart of Glass (1976) Stroszek (1977) Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) Woyzeck (1979) Fitzcarraldo (1982) Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) Cobra Verde (1987) Scream of Stone (1991) Lessons of Darkness (1992) Invincible (2001) The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Rescue Dawn (2006) Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) Queen of the Desert (2015) Salt and Fire (2016)

Documentaries	The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Handicapped Future (1971) Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) La Soufrière (1977) Huie's Sermon (1981) God's Angry Man (1981) Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990) Jag Mandir (1991) Bells from the Deep (1993) The Transformation of the World into Music (1994) Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) My Best Fiend (1999) Wings of Hope (2000) Pilgrimage (2001) Ten Thousand Years Older (2002) Wheel of Time (2003) The White Diamond (2004) Grizzly Man (2005) Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) Into the Abyss (2011) On Death Row (2012) From One Second to the Next (2013) Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) Into the Inferno (2016)

Shorts	Herakles (1962) Game in the Sand (1964) The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) Last Words (1967) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) No One Will Play with Me (1976) Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) Les Gaulois (1988) La bohème (2009)

Other	Incident at Loch Ness (2004)

Books	Of Walking In Ice (1978) Bibliography

Related	Lena Herzog (wife) Lucki Stipetić (brother) Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

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