<![CDATA[Herzog on Herzog]]>

false <![CDATA[Herzog on Herzog]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169422165m/40174.jpg 40174 1 <div>An invaluable set of career-length interviews with the German genius hailed by François Truffaut as “the most important film director alive” Most of what we’ve heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. The sheer number of false rumors and downright lies disseminated about the man and his films is truly astonishing. Yet Herzog’s body of work is one of the most important in postwar European cinema. His international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre, The Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog cast in the lead a man who had spent most of his life institutionalized, and two years later he hypnotized his entire cast to make Heart of Glass. He rushed to an explosive volcanic Caribbean island to film La Soufrière, paid homage to F. W. Murnau in a terrifying remake of Nosferatu, and in 1982 dragged a boat over a mountain in the Amazon jungle for Fitzcarraldo. More recently, Herzog has made extraordinary “documentary” films such as Little Dieter Needs to Fly. His place in cinema history is assured, and Paul Cronin’s volume of dialogues provides a forum for Herzog’s fascinating views on the things, ideas, and people that have preoccupied him for so many years. </div> 39859 4 11 2003 Herzog on Herzog total:245|5:9|4:4|3:1|2:0|1:0| 245 1130 423 51 4 2 false false Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 10:29:54 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 07:16:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 01:16:45 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 18:40:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 14:20:35 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 10:03:28 -0700 2008
This is a really great book for anyone who is a fan, or any filmmaker.

Herzog is a real curmudgeon, and so a lot of what he says has to be taken with a grain of salt. but ther...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Aug 07 18:33:15 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 09:51:52 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 14:04:36 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 10:34:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 11:08:01 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 11:51:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 12:58:35 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:00:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 09:32:52 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 10:04:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 13:36:22 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 13:45:46 -0700 2009
It is a bestread®, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to you even if you've never seen any of Herzog's films.

Werner Herzog has inspired me to be more courageous and bold in all of my creative endeavours and to (someday) travel by foot from Chicago t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 30 14:01:28 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 14:18:48 -0800 2008 artists of hi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 27 12:49:29 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 12:50:57 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 1935 Tue Nov 24 18:07:58 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 24 18:09:12 -0800 2009
I was once told that this book reads like scripture. "Like" is too weak a word.

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I haven't seen many of the films discussed in this book, but the films are secondary to the philosophy. In these interviews, Herzog's films come across as diverse obstacle courses for the human spirit that trans...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Oct 13 11:08:45 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 11:12:35 -0700 2008 thought "Grizzly man" was interesting but the outtakes with Werner Herzog were equally if not more interesting.
saw, "Even Dwarfs start small" and thought this shit is messed up.
Maybe I wont be a life long fan of all of his films but ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun May 04 16:26:24 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 16:29:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=40174