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Herzog on Herzog / edited by Paul Cronin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herzog, Werner, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herzog, Werner, 1942---Interviews.
- Herzog, Werner.
- Herzog, Werner, 1942-.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Interviews.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Faber, 2002.
- Summary:
- Herzog on Herzog is an invaluable career-spanning set of interviews with the legendary German filmmaker once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most important director alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with mercurial actor Klaus Kinski -- including the epics Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, and the terrifying Nosferatu -- Werner Herzog has built a body of work that is one of the most vital in post-war European cinema. Most of what we think we know about Herzog is untrue: he is a director around whom a quite astonishing number of myths, rumours, and downright lies have accumulated. This book, offering innumerable insights into the making of his extraordinary films, also sets the record straight on the many controversies that have accompanied them. We learn of his adventures during the arduous production of Aguirre in the Peruvian jungle; of his casting of the previously institutionalized Bruno S. in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser; the hypnosis of the entire cast of Heart of Glass; his journey to an explosive volcanic Caribbean island to film La Soufriere; and his infamous dragging of a boat over a mountain in the Amazon jungle for Fitzcarraldo. Later chapters focus on his acclaimed and unclassifiable 'documentary' films, such as Lessons of Darkness and Little Dieter Needs to Fly. Herzog's place in cinema history is assured. Now Herzog on Herzog provides the definitive platform for his passionate, fascinating, and fiercely humorous views on the places, people and ideas that have preoccupied him across his career.
- Contents:
- 1 The Shower Curtain 1
- Herakles
- Game in the Sand
- The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz
- 2 Blasphemy and Mirages 32
- Signs of Life
- Precautions Against Fanatics
- The Flying Doctors of East Africa
- Even Dwarfs Started Small
- Fata Morgana
- 3 Adequate Imagery 65
- Handicapped Future
- Land of Silence and Darkness
- Aguirre
- The Wrath of God
- The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
- No One Will Play with Me
- 4 Athletics and Aesthetics 101
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
- Heart of Glass
- 5 Legitimacy 135
- How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
- Stroszek
- La Soufriere
- Nosferatu the Vampyre
- Woyzeck
- 6 Defying Gravity 166
- God's Angry Man
- Huie's Sermon
- Fitzcarraldo
- Ballad of the Little Soldier
- The Dark Glow of the Mountains
- 7 The Work of Illusionists 201
- Where the Green Ants Dream
- Cobra Verde
- Wodaabe
- Echoes from a Sombre Empire
- The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
- Scream of Stone
- Film Lesson
- 8 Fact and Truth 238
- Lessons of Darkness
- Bells from the Deep
- The Transformation of the World into Music
- Death for Five Voices
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly
- Wings of Hope
- 9 The Song of Life 273
- My Best Fiend
- The Lord and the Laden
- Pilgrimage
- Invincible
- The Minnesota Declaration 301.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0571207081
- OCLC:
- 50581849
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