Werner Herzog

Interviews

Eric Ames

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781496802514
• eBook ISBN: 9781626741140
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

Over the course of his career, legendary director Werner Herzog (b. 1942) has made almost sixty films and given more than eight hundred interviews. This collection features the best of these, focusing on all the major films, from Signs of Life and Aguirre, the Wrath of God to Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. When did Herzog decide to become a filmmaker? Who are his key influences? Where does he find his peculiar themes and characters? What role does music play in his films? How does he see himself in relation to the German past and in relation to film history? And how did he ever survive the wrath of Klaus Kinski? Herzog answers these and many other questions in twenty-five interviews ranging from the 1960s to the present. Critics and fans recognized Herzog's importance as a young German filmmaker early on, but his films have attained international significance over the decades. Most of the interviews collected in this volume—some of them from Herzog's production archive and previously unpublished—appear in English for the very first time. Together, they offer an unprecedented look at Herzog's work, his career, and his public persona as it has developed and changed over time.

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Aborigines. See Where the Green Ants Dream

accessibility of films

Achmed

actors. See casts and casting

Adjani, Isabelle

adventure and danger

aesthetics

Africa: Cobra Verde

filmmaking perils

Flying Doctors of East Africa

Rouch’s film. See also Fata Morgana

Aguaruna Indians

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Herzog): audience reaction

casting approach

despair in

distribution

failure theme

final scene

financing

Hombrecito (flute player)

hypnotized audience for

and Kaspar Hauser

Kinski’s role

landscape’s role

location’s importance

opening scene

Albania

Alencar, Jose de

American Zoetrope

Amnesty International

angel song

animals: Aguirre

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Disneyfication of

Echoes from a Sombre Empire

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Game in the Sand

Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

Lessons of Darkness

Signs of Life

Stroszek

Antarctica film

anthropology

Antonioni, Michelangelo

Apocalypse Now (Coppola)

archaeology

Arnim, Achim von

asklepieion

athletics

Attenborough, David

audiences: Aguirre

of children

commercial film problem

expectations from

hypnotized condition

Signs of Life

for Treadwell

unknowability factor

Australia. See Where the Green Ants Dream

Austria

Bad Lieutenant (Herzog)

Bale, Christian

Ballad of the Little Soldier (Herzog)

bananas

Baudelaire, Charles

Bavaria: culture

film tradition

BBC sniper interview

bear films

Bellini, Vincenzo

Bells from the Deep (Herzog)

Bergfelder, Ulrich

Bergman, Ingmar

Berlinale Film Festival

Bernhard, Thomas

Berriff, Paul

Bertolucci, Bernardo

Bible

birds. See also chickens

Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The (Fassbinder)

Blank, Les

Bokassa I

Böll, Heinrich

Bosch, Hieronymus

Bowie, David

Brandt, Willy

Brazil

Brittany

Brogle, Peter

Browning, Tod

Bruno S.

Büchner, Georg

Buñuel, Lui...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Filmography
• Platform for the Young German Film: Werner Herzog
• Hope for Berlin
• South American Experiences: A Conversation with Werner Herzog on Aguirre, the Wrath of God
• Werner Herzog: “Like a Powerful Dream . . .”
• Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Conversation with Werner Herzog on The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
• Interview with Werner Herzog
• Hypnosis as Means of Stylization: An Interview with Werner Herzog
• Interview with Werner Herzog
• Interview with Werner Herzog on Nosferatu
• Interview with Werner Herzog on the American Reception of His Films
• Fitzcarraldo: A Conversation with Werner Herzog
• Interview with Werner Herzog on Where the Green Ants Dream
• Discussion with Werner Herzog on Staging His First Opera
• Cobra Verde
• The Mirror of Bangui: According to Werner Herzog, Echoes from a Sombre Empire Is Not a Documentary on Bokassa but a Portrait of Us All
• Interview with Werner Herzog on Lessons of Darkness
• Werner Herzog
• Werner Herzog in Conversation with Geoffrey O’Brien
• Revolver Interview: Werner Herzog
• The Wrath of Klaus Kinski: An Interview with Werner Herzog
• A More Athletic Approach: An Interview with Werner Herzog on Grizzly Man
• “I’ve Never Stood Still”: A Conversation with Werner Herzog
• Defiant Werner Herzog to Defamer: “Who Is Abel Ferrara?”
• Q & A: Werner Herzog
• Out of the Darkness: Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Key Resources
• Index