(Ebook) Herzog on Herzog by Paul Cronin, Werner Herzog ISBN 9780571207084, 0571207081

(Ebook) Herzog on Herzog by Paul Cronin, Werner Herzog ISBN 9780571207084, 0571207081

Most of what we’ve heard about Werner Herzog is untrue. The sheer number of false rumors & 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, & 2 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, & 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, & Paul Cronin’s volume of dialogues provides a forum for Herzog’s fascinating views on the things, ideas, & people that have preoccupied him for so many years.

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Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, & directed more than 60 feature & documentary films, including Aguirre, Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, My Best Fiend, Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, & Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Herzog has published 12+ books of poetry & prose, most recently The Twilight World, & directed as many operas. He has appeared as an actor in Jack Reacher, The Mandalorian, & The Simpsons, & exhibited an art installation, Hearsay of the Soul, at the 2012 Whitney Biennale & the Getty Museum. He also founded his own Rogue Film School as a…