Legacy Of The Night wroteemperorblackdoom wroteLegacy Of The Night wroteAguirre, The Wrath Of GodFuck, what a great movie.
:dio:How about those last spinning shots around the boat? Feel like you've just been through a hell of a journey, huh?Was that your first classic Herzog?
Yeah, man, that last monologue left me all "that dude's crazy"And yeah, I guess it was my first. I haven't been acquanited with Herzog's work before, I just saw that movie because I heard it was good. Anything else he's done that's good?
The monologue, the spinning and that really disturbing 70s ambient music....eek!
I thought the first half of Herzog's' Nosferatu' was like a religious experience; the journey to the castle and then the castle itself are a triumph of disturbing shots and music.
His Fitzcarraldo is slow, but never a film you'd be angry for spending 2 1/2 watching. A guy wants to build in opera house in the Amazon jungle...and damnit, he is going to do it! A really uplifting ending, and one of the most spectacular scenes in film history--a 320 ton steamship is dragged up and over a mountain by the Amazon natives.
Edit--Dago was on the ball with this rec already!
And I have both of his boxsets, Zad, an incredible bargain for all those good movies.