The legendary filmmaker is coming to WBUR's CitySpace to discuss his long-anticipated memoir, 'Every Man for Himself and God Against All.' Film critic Sean Burns recommends a handful of titles worth streaming ahead of the event.
At once a mystic oracle and half-kidding huckster, legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has spent his six-decade career shooting on seven different continents, chronicling humankind’s fraught relationship with a cruel and indifferent universe through 34 documentaries and 20 dramatic features, as well as dozens of shorts, operas and television programs. The prolific director turned 81 last month, and will be stopping by.
The quintessential Herzog film, and maybe his best. In 16th-century Peru, after the conquest of the Incas, a battalion of Spanish soldiers under Pizarro’s command journeyed down the Amazon in search of El Dorado. They should have stayed home. Klaus Kinski stars as the title character, a cunning, deranged despot fixated on his teenage daughter and obsessed with finding the mythical city of gold.
The legend goes that Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker and beloved Cantabrigian Errol Morris was incentivized to start shooting his first movie, “Gates of Heaven,'' after his pal Werner promised that if Errol ever finished it, he would eat his shoe. The day of the film’s Berkeley premiere, Herzog and Chez Panisse chef Alice Waters spent five hours braising his boots in a pot of rendered duck fat with thyme, rosemary and bay leaves.
This curious odyssey ventures to a land far stranger and more exotic than any of Herzog’s jungle epics: Middle America. The film was written for self-taught street musician Bruno Schleinstein — usually credited as Bruno S. — a non-professional actor the director discovered while casting “Kaspar Hauser.” Having spent most of his life in mental institutions, Schleinstein reacts to the world as if tuned to frequencies the rest of us don’t hear.
Timothy Treadwell is such an ideal Herzog protagonist, if he hadn’t existed the director probably would have invented him. The failed television actor spent 13 summers living in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve, recklessly frolicking with massive grizzly bears and by all available evidence, annoying the crap out of them.
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