With a production crew that you could count on all fingers, even subtracting the one that the crazed star blew off of an extra’s hand with a pistol, and with cameras that the crazed director ...

“One of the great haunting visions of the cinema…What Herzog sees in the story, I think, is what he finds in many of his films: Men haunted by a vision of great achievement, who commit the sin of ...

In a short series of downward tilt shots, the camera – unseen, but a “felt” presence throughout, as drops of moisture on the lens later testify – picks out insect-like figures tentatively making their ...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God How to explain Klaus Kinski to Americans unfamiliar with the dead German actor? Think of him as a kind of Teutonic Dennis Hopper—only crazier. He’s probably best known for ...

The mistiness of the nature is also imbued into Aguirre, as historically disparate conquistadorial figures flicker in and out of his identity, such as the film’s narrator, Gaspar de Carvajal (Del ...

Werner Herzog’s mad masterpiece from 1972 still has its hallucinatory charge. Its star, Klaus Kinski, terrorised his fellow cast and crew, and in its own way ‘Aguirre’ has become cinema legend ...