Includes a booklet with selected writings by Werner Herzog, and photographs from Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde by Beat Presser. Credits from film titles. "With the 2007-2008 RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar, University of Pennsylvania"--Container.
Contents:
Aliens as a fixture of our imagination -- On the ecstasy of ski-flying -- Vivisecting Faust -- Fundamental achievement of the human race -- Era of solitude -- On reading one's audience correctly -- Buster Keaton and Fred Astair [sic] -- On Romanticism and the consolations of art and literature -- The manly man: Hollywood and post-pubescence -- Questions.
Summary:
"Herzog has become one of the most influential filmmakers in the world producing, writing, and directing more than fifty films, publishing more than a dozen books of prose, and directing as many operas. Werner Herzog has created some of the most fantastic narratives in the history of cinema, pushing himself and his crew to unprecedented lengths to achieve the effects he demanded."--Container.
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