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Werner Herzog
Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
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Seriously not a dull moment in the wonderful memoir by Werner Herzog. From his mother running and grabbing him from his crib after their apartment was bomber in Germany and fleeing live in a barn in Bavaria to the day he met Klaus Kinski as a teenager in a bombed out building turned boarding house post war -- Werner's retelling of his life is peak Herzogian narration -- he narrates the audiobook as well, what could be better?
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Werner Herzog Would Prefer Not To Speak French
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Tune in for a quintessential Herzogian interview and storytelling about the last time he had to use the French language.
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Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog)
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The first of many Werner recs -- Fitzcarraldo is a source of endless inspiration for me. I've got this photo framed by my desk. Essentially Werner Herzog had a vision that, in his words, seized him "like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging." He wanted to make a film about an impossible endeavor, portaging a steamship over the Andes mountains. But he didn't want to just make a film about it...he wanted to actually do the impossible thing himself. The film, as one person said, captures the triumph of madness. This rec is a three-fer, you've got 1. Fitzacarraldo 2. the Les Blank doc, Burden of Dreams, shot while making the film, and 3. Conquest of the Useless, Herzog's journals while filming, all hazy with jungle chaos.
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