The Werner Herzog Collection (15)
The Werner Herzog Collection (15)
There are some good "making of" documentaries out there, but most pale in comparison to Les Blank's Bafta-winning Burden Of Dreams, which chronicles firsthand the chaos on the set of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo (the one where they really took a steamboat over a mountain in South America). It's one of many excellent "extras" in this eight-disc Blu-ray collection covering Herzog's work from the late 1960s until late 1980s, along with moderated director commentaries, an edition of the South Bank Show and 80-minute audio recording of an on-stage interview from 1988.
Picture quality on the Herzog/Klaus Kinski features (Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde, Nosferatu and Woyzeck among them) is superb; others such as Stroszeck and The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser are also much improved from previous DVD versions. A host of short documentary works are more rough and ready, but the entire package is a fine testament to a filmmaker whose depictions of kindred spirit obsessives and outsiders pushes his art (and his cast) to the limits.
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