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 ...
Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...
Werner Herzog confirms the extreme lengths he went to in order to afford operations on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Herzog's 1972 jungle adventure film tells the story of a ruthless and ...
“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 ...
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 ...
The Venice Film Festival will honor iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose body of work comprises “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampyre” — with its 2025 ...