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Fitzcarraldo is unusual for a Herzog film in providing a gallery of delightful supporting performances. Claudia Cardinale, as Fitz's mistress Molly, radiates sensuality like a healthy year-round suntan. Jose Lewgoy, who plays an unscrupulous rubber baron, takes immense and innocent pleasure in his character's venality. Miguel Angel Fuentes, the boat's mechanic, is a huge ivory totem, twice as large as Arnold Schwarzenegger and with three times the dark charm. Grande Othelo, who starred 40 years ago in Orson Welles' unfinished film It's All True, is the wrinkled old retainer...
...Conquistador of the useless," a rival calls Fitzcarraldo. Fitz says: "I am the spectacle in the forest." This is Herzog talking, of course, not Kinski or Fitzcarraldo. Or rather, Herzog is all his characters, all his actors. He is the dreamer, the savage, the engulfing river. This time, Herzog steered his craft through rapids and longueurs, outside dangers and his own follies. A madman and a survivor: a moviemaking Ahab who lived to tell his fabulous tale. -By Richard Corliss
...J.F.K.'s three-year-old Administration. In Scammon's mellow hindsight, there is no doubt that the tough, pragmatic, but often tender and poetic, strains of the Kennedy stewardship reflected the political culture of the Boston Irish and the legacy of J.F.K.'s grandfather, Honey Fitz...
...Indians," says a character in I Werner Herzog's epic movie Fitz-carraldo, "believe that the waking world is a fantasy from which we escape into our real life - our dream life." Herzog should know: he was one of 35,000 dreamers at the 35th Cannes Film Festival. For 13 days on the cool but sunny Côte d'Azur, fantasies of art and avarice were spun with blithe disregard for events in the waking world outside. On the façade of the town's posh Carlton Hotel, an electronic ticker tape mixed bulletins from...
...father and Fitzsimmons met with the IRS agents once, in early 1972, but added: "I never talked with them again. I'm certain my dad didn't talk to them either, because he never told me that he did. I can't say what Fitz did." Presser added: "So, I'm a fink? Look, I can't be responsible for what's in Government reports." Presser said this in a limousine carrying him to the Executive Office Building; he ended the interview by entering the building for a meeting with Reagan's aides...