Werner Herzog : interviews / edited by Eric Ames.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herzog, Werner, 1942-

Contributor:

Ames, Eric, 1969- editor.

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series.

Conversations with filmmakers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson, Mississippi : University Press of Mississippi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing on all the major films, from Signs of Life and Aguirre, the Wrath of God to Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. When did Herzog decide to become a filmmaker? Who are his key influences? Where does he find his peculiar themes and characters? What role does music play in his films? How does he see himself in relation to the German past and in relation to film history?

Contents:

Platform for the young German film: Werner Herzog / Frieda Grafe, Enno Patalas, and Florian Fricke (1968)

Hope for Berlin. Film in Berlin (1968)

South American Experiences: A Conversation with Werner Herzog on Aguirre, the Wrath of God / Peter Schumann (1973)

Werner Herzog: "Like a Powerful Dream " / Noureddine Ghali (1973)

Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Conversation with Werner Herzog on The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / Hans Gunther Pflaum (1974)

Interview with Werner Herzog / Kraft Wetzel (1976)

Hypnosis as Means of Stylization: An Interview with Werner Herzog / Horst Wiedemann (1976)

Interview with Werner Herzog / Eric de Saint-Angel (1978)

Interview with Werner Herzog on Nosferatu / Simon Mizrahi (1979)

Interview with Werner Herzog on the American Reception of His Films / Jorg Bundschuh and Christian Bauer (1979)

Fitzcarraldo: A Conversation with Werner Herzog / Bion Steinborn and Ridiger von Naso (1982)

Interview with Werner Herzog on Where the Green Ants Dream / Simon Mizrahi (1984)

Discussion with Werner Herzog on Staging His First Opera / David Knaus and Beat Presser (1985)

Cobra Verde / Jean-Pierre Lavoignat (1987)

The Mirror of Bangui: According to Werner Herzog, Echoes from a Sombre Empire Is Not a Documentary on Bokassa but a Portrait of Us All / Daniele Heymann (1990)

Interview with Werner Herzog on Lessons of Darkness / Alexander Schwarz (1993)

Interview with Werner Herzog / Edgar Reitz (1995)

Werner Herzog in Conversation with Geoffrey O'Brien / Geoffrey O'Brien (1996)

Revolver Interview: Werner Herzog / Daniel Sponsel and Jan Sebenig (1998)

The Wrath of Klaus Kinski: An Interview with Werner Herzog / A. G. Basoli (1999)

A More Athletic Approach: An Interview with Werner Herzog on Grizzly Man / Cynthia Fuchs (2005)

"I've Never Stood Still": A Conversation with Werner Herzog / Dietmar Kammerer (2007)

Defiant Werner Herzog to Defamer: "Who Is Abel Ferrara?" / Gawker.com (2008)

Q & A: Werner Herzog / Daniel Trilling (2009)

Out of the Darkness: Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams / Samuel Wigley.

Notes:

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61703-969-1

1-62674-015-1

OCLC:

870211390