German-born director Werner Herzog crafts visionary and often darkly obsessive narratives that blur the line between documentary and fiction, as seen in the jungle epic Aguirre, the Wrath of God and the war drama Rescue Dawn. I have reviewed 4 of his films on the site so far.
Rating: 3.0★
Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski made five films together between 1972 and 1987, and the story of that partnership has, by now, almost eclipsed the films themselves. Herzog's 1999 documentary My Best Fiend laid it all out in uncomfortable detail: the threats, the tantrums, the mutual fascination that
Genre War
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Genre Documentary
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
Genre Drama
★★½ — Fitzcarraldo (1982)
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