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I am not looking forward. Kinski is not one of my favorite actors (and neither is his daughter... so sue me!), and Herzog... well, sometimes only.But the key is turning in the rusty lock, and the executioners are getting near!
Will I even survive to report? Is it worse than working for HP?
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Victor,This is one I've loved for a long time. I'm not a big fan of Kinski or Herzog either, but the playing off of Kinki maniacal outbursts- re: the scene where he's acting as Jesus!- against Herzog's calm bemusement is really the best sort of dark comedy. I liked best, I think, the scene where Herzog visits the flat where he and Kinski lived. The description of Kinski breaking down the door over the shirt ironng. the vocalising for days in his closet, filling the attic knee deep in leaves to play Pan- fantastic! The couple that lived there at the time of documentary were also from that very quiet, well organized and extra sober/clean ("sauberfolken") German type and that was another contrast to the stories of wild-eyed luncay that gone on there.
I suppose I'm the sucker for about any film about extreme eccentrics in the arts, hence this one, "32 Short Films about Glenn Gould", "Condo Painting", and the like are very memorable.
I would rather see "My Best Fiend" than really almost any Kinski movie. I did like "Fitzcaraldo" quite a lot but that's about another fellow fellow in the Amazon that makes ice and wants to build an opera house and tries to finance it by dragging a steam ship over a mountain. That one I really recommend.
Cheers,
Bam
You can play the " genius " but that won´t you make one.
I agree to large degree. Even the Fitzcaraldo I was not too crazy about, and his other works I could easily ignore. I am not in love with that sort of acting - all the emotion seems rather artificial. One can easily impress with lunatic behavior and acting, impressing with quiet words and demeanor is something only good actors could accomplish.Perhaps his acting is 3000 years overdue, and the Greek drama lost its most bombastic actor. :-)
nt
Herzog will be one of a select few filmmakers that will be revered in the generations to come, if not for his dramatic films, then certainly for his documentaries, of which he has no peer. It is criminal that they are not all on DVD.
Klaus Kinski was by all accounts a Very Very Difficult Person
For Herzog to have extracted Art out of him would have taken years off the lives of both men
Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu aren't "easy watching" in the same way Mahler isn't "easy listening"; but the films remain strangely compelling in a hellish sort of wayKe Hea Kia Toa:
"Be Brave that you may truly Live"Grins
..I said 60 minutes into the film... a documentary about the difficult relationship between Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog, who directed several of his fims.And yet something that got developed over that 60 minutes, started suddenly loosing its shape and sharpness, began to blend into background.
The last trirty minutes or so represented a repetition of already said things, and added little (not zero, just little) to the portrait.
A very interesting documentary for anyone who loves serious movies. Something that will make you thing whether perfect harmony can only be built on fundamental similarity, and that Herzog is not all that different in his obsession from Kinski, and that while trying to remain, and portray himself, as a sane individual, he actually just keeps sliding deeper and deeper into the void, where his notebooks, written microscopically, finally tell us the story of his own madness.
Strongly recommended, even if the later part is definitely tedious.
I won´t...My doctor is a friend of Herzog ( he was even with him on location ) and what he did tell me, well boy, that is enough for my curiosity...Much more than enough....
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