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Herzog On Herzog Revised Edition (2014)

by Paul Cronin(Favorite Author)

4.49 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0571259782 (ISBN13: 9780571259786)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Faber & Faber

review 1: The more of his films you've seen the more you'll get out of this book. But don't let this put you off. You may not agree with his views all the time but he truly is a unique filmmaker worthy of the praise and adulation he receives. At the same time you can understand why so many just don't get him. He is often overly poetic and when reading this book you often wonder if his stories don't borrow from his filmmaking ideology. Often the stories are so unbelievable that you feel that he must be creating his own "ecstatic truth". Highly recommended.
review 2: Herzog is, simply, incomparable. Who else thinks or speaks like this man? His rare combination of humility, disarming thoughtfulness and blunt honesty provide an antidote to the typical glibness of those invol... moreved in the movie business. Of course, Herzog would probably dislike someone associating him with the movie business; he'd argue that he was in the business of dreams. And he would be right. He is a craftsman of dreams. (He would undoubtedly reject being called an artist of dreams, although it's more appropriate.)These interviews (or, rather, this extended interview) provide the best autobiography we are likely to get from Herzog. He is anecdotal, digressive, gossipy (without being shallow), often hilarious, and always astonishingly coherent. Upon completion of the book, I was left with the impression that Herzog is, more even than a filmmaker and writer, a man who thinks.Above everything else I can take from this man (including his injunction to NEVER listen to the Song of Life) is his insistence that a "grown-up man should eat his shoes once in a while or do things that make equal sense".Indeed. less

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