Herzog on Herzog (Signed)
An invaluable set of career-length interviews with the German genius hailed by François Truffaut as "the most important film director alive". Herzog's international breakthrough came in 1973 with Aguirre: The Wrath of God, in which Klaus Kinski played a crazed Conquistador. For The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog cast in the lead a man who had spent most of his life institutionalized, and two years later he hypnotized his entire cast to make Heart of Glass. He rushed to an explosive volcanic Caribbean island to film La Soufrière, paid homage to F. W. Murnau in a terrifying remake of Nosferatu, and in 1982 dragged a boat over a mountain in the Amazon jungle for Fitzcarraldo. More recently, Herzog has made extraordinary "documentary" films such as Little Dieter Needs to Fly. His place in cinema history is assured, and Paul Cronin's volume of dialogues provides a forum for Herzog's fascinating views on the things, ideas, and people that have preoccupied him for so many years.
Includes two ticket stubs from the live presentation "Hearsay of the Soul: Images, Music, and Ecstasies" at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles on 8/3/2013 which featured Herzog and avant-garde cellist/composer Ernst Reijseger. Signed and inscribed by Herzog, presumably at this event, "For [Jade], best regards, Werner Herzog."
Condition: Fine/Like New, now in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Price: $100.00