Werner Herzog Retrospective: Get the ultimate education on one of documentary's greatest auteurs.
To say that the working relationship between Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski was often stormy strains the boundaries of understatement. Kinski's tirades against Herzog are the stuff of legend: his scabrous autobiography features a number of venomous rants against the director, while Herzog threatened Kinski with murder to get him to complete his work on Aguirre, the Wrath of God (screening here Saturday, August 6). However, the collaboration between these two men resulted in the finest and most memorable work of either's career, including Fitzcarraldo (screening here Thursday, August 11), before Kinski's death in 1991. My Best Fiend is a documentary by Herzog about his work with Kinski, and portrays the actor with a large degree of affection. Despite their remarkable differences, he sums up their working relationship with an admirable conclusion: "We complemented one another. I needed him and he needed me."
In German, Spanish and Italian with English subtitles.
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