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Conquest of the Useless: reflection from the making of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog
Category: Fiction
A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, while above this natu ...Show more
Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
Category: Biography
Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human exper ...Show more
In Love with Movies - From New Yorker Films to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas by Daniel Talbot; Toby Talbot (Editor); Werner Herzog (Foreword by)
Category: Film & Tv
Daniel Talbot changed the way the Upper West Side--and art-house audiences around the world--went to the movies. In Love with Movies is his memoir of a rich life as the impresario of the legendary Manhattan theaters he owned and operated and as a highly influential film distributor.
Of Walking in Ice by Werner Herzog
Category: Biography
This is a poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film-maker and critic, was dying in Paris, he set off to walk there from Munich, 'in full fa ...Show more
Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974 by Werner Herzog
Category: Travel
In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed that an act of walking would keep Eisner from death. ...Show more
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
Category: Fiction
‘A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lies, illusion and time’ - NEW YORK TIMES ‘Herzog’s writing bristles with the same eerie and uncompromising energy as his films. His jungle pulses with hallucinatory life’ - Sam Byers, Guardian In his first novel, the great filmmaker, Werner Herzog ...Show more
The Twilight World by Werner Herzog
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary and captivating story told in exquisite prose; this is the unmade documentary from the pioneer and legendary filmmaker who brought us the mutli-award-winning Grizzly Man The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier ...Show more
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