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☆ Werner Herzog Calls His 70-Plus Films ‘A Distraction.’ Instead, You Should Read His Book.
  + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Werner Herzog is renowned for his strange and novel filmmaking—and for the lengths to which he’ll go to get a shot. In “Fitzcarraldo,” his 1982 film about an opera-loving madman who hauls a steamship over a mountain in pursuit of rubber in the Amazonian jungle, Herzog had his crew haul an actual 320-ton boat on pulleys over a muddy mountain in the Amazon, even though a Brazilian engineer quit after warning that it was too dangerous. “I swear to God it’s not a special effect,” says Herzog, who disdains them. “Audiences can tell right away.”
Persons: Werner Herzog, he’ll, Fitzcarraldo, ”, Herzog, it’s Locations: Brazilian
☆ Werner Herzog Has Created ‘A Cinema of My Own’ but Thinks His Greatest Achievements Are Literary
  + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Werner Herzog is renowned for his strange and novel filmmaking—and for the lengths to which he’ll go to get a shot. In “Fitzcarraldo,” his 1982 film about an opera-loving madman who hauls a steamship over a mountain in pursuit of rubber in the Amazonian jungle, Herzog had his crew haul an actual 320-ton boat on pulleys over a muddy mountain in the Amazon, even though a Brazilian engineer quit after warning that it was too dangerous. “I swear to God it’s not a special effect,” says Herzog, who disdains them. “Audiences can tell right away.”
Persons: Werner Herzog, he’ll, Fitzcarraldo, ”, Herzog, it’s Locations: Brazilian
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