Word: herzog
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This director bears no resemblance whatsoever to his armchair counterparts in Hollywood. For Werner Herzog, filming his latest effort Fitzcarraldo, only hauling this massive ship over the mountain would properly illustrate the central metaphor of his movie. Perpetually choosing the most difficult route possible to achieve his goals, Herzog scorns the shortcuts and props that usually dominate his medium...
...Blank's documentary, Burden of Dreams, which opened last Friday at the newly renovated Brattle theater, captures Herzog and his crew fighting both to create a movie and retain their health and sanity while entrenched in the primitive jungle. Beware of dismissing this movie merely because it falls into the category of "documentary." It is a fascinating portrait of a director straddling the border between sanity and the depths beyond, while challenging himself and nature through the jungle...
...plot of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, which has yet to open in Boston, in turn follows the real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does...
Burden of Dreams looks frankly and directly at the obsessed Herzog, who despite frequent troubles continued to struggle for his movie. Seeing no alternatives, he says, "I live my life and I end my life with this project." Throughout the four years spent on the film, a continuous series of problems plagued Herzog's efforts. Once he and his crew were forced to flee camp for their lives; later original actors Jason Robards and Mick Jagger pulled out, the former because of ill health, the latter for other commitments. Herzog had to start from scratch with a new lead, Klaus...
...spacious Busch Memorial Stadium, power is hardly necessary, or so Manager Whitey Herzog has demonstrated. Herzog has the team playing his special brand of running, hustling baseball -- "Whiteyball," as the locals call...