Werner Herzog, Internet Explorer

To make a documentary about the Internet requires nerve. To do so when you can hardly be bothered with a cell phone, however, takes both innocence and bravado, plus a pinch of madness. All of which means that Werner Herzog, now aged seventy-three, is right for the job, and the result is "Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World." The movie is divided into ten parts, none of which could be mistaken for a commandment; Herzog's documentaries have always been fired more by marvelling, and by an explorer's ache to learn, than by any pedagogic urge to tell. If he were struck color-blind tomorrow, he would instantly embark on a film about Matisse.