This commentary features director Les Blank, editor and sound recordist Maureen Gosling, and director Werner Herzog. Blank and Gosling were recorded together in San Francisco in September 2004. Herzog was recorded in Los Angeles in January 2005.
In this interview, recorded in Los Angeles in January 2005, Werner Herzog looks back at FITZCARRALDO through the filter of his own memory and Les Blank’s documentation of its production for BURDEN OF DREAMS.
Though the following scenes never made it into the final edit of BURDEN OF DREAMS, Les Blank allowed Herzog to use them in MY BEST FIEND (1999)––Herzog’s film about his unique relationship with the extraordinary actor Klaus Kinski. Selections have been extracted from MY BEST FIEND for presentatio...
Directed by Les Blank • 1980 • United States
As a result of a lost bet with his assistant, Errol Morris, director Werner Herzog must eat his own shoe.
