This Guy Edits: How Werner Herzog Masters Storytelling
Werner Herzog is a filmmaker of mythological status. What can we glean from his documentary work & his pursuit of “ecstatic” truth?
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Werner Herzog[1] (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director.
Herzog is considered one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog’s films often feature heroes with impossible dreams,[2] people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.[3]
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog “the most important film director alive.”[4] American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog “has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular.”[5] He was named one of the 100 most influential people on the planet by Time magazine in 2009.[6]
