Fitzcarraldo
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Fitzcardboardaldo
I must admit I wasn’t previously aware of Robin Frohardt’s work, but her ingenious re-envisioning of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo in cardboard certainly has piqued my interest. From her website, it seems that previously she has operated as an artist and puppeteer, but on the basis of Fitzcardboardaldo I certainly hope she makes more films. Oh, and — of course! — there’s also a “making of” doc featuring a cardboard rendering of Herzog, Corrugation of Dreams, which you can view here.
by Nick Dawson on Jun 6, 2013 -
Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass
In 1976 Werner Herzog hypnotized his cast of actors and directed one of the strangest narrative films in the history of cinema, Heart of Glass. Alan Greenberg, then a young writer, aspiring filmmaker, and Herzog disciple, was on the set, and thirty-odd years later he, and Herzog, would like to tell you all about it. Hence, Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of “Heart of Glass” (Chicago Review Press). Greenberg had fallen under Herzog’s spell the year before, when he was sent by a film journal to interview the director. Neither cared for that process, but […]
by David Licata on May 24, 2012 -
“HERE” | co-writer-director, Braden King
[PREMIERE SCREENING: Friday, Jan. 21, 5:30 pm — Library Center Theatre] Looking back, the process of creating Here, which is ultimately a pretty romantic, landscape-obsessed road movie, was probably about as close you can get to some kind of Fitzcarraldo or Heart of Darkness experience anymore. I suppose I’m surprised that the finished film doesn’t seem to reflect that more. There are no massive battle sequences in the film; I didn’t get to play with any pyrotechnics (damn it), but Here was the first American feature film ever to shoot in Armenia. That provided fantastic advantages and disadvantages: unimaginable challenges, […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Jan 21, 2011 -
AMAZONAS FILM FESTIVAL: “THIS TEMPLE OF ART”
The 7th annual Amazonas Film Festival Brazil opened last night with a mixture of culture and cinema in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest. The festival kicked off with a screening of Lucy Walker‘s Waste Land, which looks at Brazilian artist Vik Muniz who uses the garbage from a landfill in San Paulo to transform the lives of some of the people who work there. But for those of us who came over from the States it was the setting of the screening that was more eye catching: the Teatro Amazonas, where the opening scene from Fitzcarraldo was shot. One […]
by Jason Guerrasio on Nov 6, 2010
