Posts Tagged ‘Werner Herzog’
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Fata Morgana
Directed by Werner Herzog
Herzog presents the Sahara and Sahel Deserts as a mesmerizing cacophony of long beautiful tracking shots set to music by Mozart, Handel, Couperin, and Leonard Cohen and narration by Lotte H. Eisner to relate his interpretation of the story of Mayan creation.
Last available Jun 23 2021
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Land of Silence and Darkness
Directed by Werner Herzog
Fini Straubinger, a woman deaf and blind since a teen and who later in life uses her experiences to help positively guide others with similar afflictions, is the subject of Herzog’s life-affirming early documentary.
Last available Jun 20 2021
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Directed by Werner Herzog
The first collaboration between Herzog and Klaus Kinski perfectly cast the actor as a mostly fictional version of the unhinged 16th-century conquistador Don Lope de Aguirre, who on his final mission, leads a crew down the Amazon on a slow descent into hell.
Last available Jun 16 2021
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Even Dwarfs Started Small
Directed by Werner Herzog
Herzog’s second narrative feature—and his strangest—about a group of little people confined at a remote institution who start a rebellion against the guards, is an important piece of the director’s early history, signaling the emergence of a true original.