La conquista dell'inutile

Este libro es una locura! un cuaderno en donde Herzog describe el día a día de la locura de filmar una película en el amazonas. Sus conflictos, encuentros con bichos, sueños extraños, problemas con actores, de dinero o legales, o con la gente local, la prensa, su disgusto con Lima (que cada vez que Leggi tutto

Here's something to do before the end of the month: read this book and watch "Fitzcarraldo," "Aguirre: Wrath of God," the Herzog documentary about Klaus Kinski called "My Best Fiend," and the Les Blank documentary about the making of "Fitzcarraldo" called "The Burden of Dreams." A highly recommended Leggi tutto

His documentaries are still strong, but Herzog the person has started to lapse into self-parody thanks to Youtube readings of "Green Eggs and Ham," etc. It's easy to imagine his journal chronicling the torturous making of "Fitzcarraldo" would be chock full of madly hilarious Germanic ravings and pro Leggi tutto

One of my favorite films of the 1980s was Werner Herzog 's Fitzcarraldo , about a 19th century Peruvian rubber baron who decides to bring the opera to the jungle city of Iquitos. In order to do this, he must find a way of moving a largish steamship over a ridge that separates two adjacent rivers, the Leggi tutto

A este libro le salen lianas, hojas gigantes, hormigas y tarántulas. También murciélagos, animales exóticos, perros sarnosos, niños con miradas extáticas, accidentes, enfermedades, mutilados e indígenas tratando de mover una embarcación enorme a través de un monte. Por tierra. A este libro lo engull Leggi tutto

What else can you do but give this one two thumbs up? The man hauled a steamship over a mountain in the Amazon. There's nothing about that that isn't ridiculous, amazing, destructive, damaging, obsessive, incomprehensible, baffling, gratuitous, pointless, staggering, horrible, laughable, great. I've Leggi tutto

http://www.nonfictionrealstuff.com/20... As Werner Herzog tells us in his preface, this book is not a collection of "reports on the actual filming," and it is not a journal, "except in a very general sense." He refers to it as "inner landscapes, born of the delirium of the jungle," but then says that Leggi tutto

Moja nekritička naklonost prema Herzogu još je porasla nakon ovoga iskustva.... Objektivno, bilješke su repetitivne, entropične, zamorne - a u isto vrijeme nevjerojatne, čulne i predivne (uz jedinu zamjerku da se u nekim - rijetkim - epizodama možda malko nelagodno doima odnos prema domorodačkim sur Leggi tutto