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Fitzcarraldo. Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog’s masterpiece of a movie. Makes all other movies seem like kindergarten. Werner’s directors commentary on the DVD is the most articulate I have heard on this medium yet. He talks about the hardships of making the movie, the border war that broke out between Peru and Ecuador, the natives attacking them with arrows, planes crashing in the jungle, crew members maimed or killed, the three years it took to make the movie, the worst drought and subsequent worst rainy season of the century, controlling Kinski’s madness and daily “yell outs” on the film, and yet throughout it all, his unwavering faith that he had to see the movie to completion. After watching this movie I wanted to get Kinski’s autobiography, All I Need is Love. But the cheapest one at Amazon is $120.00. I was able to track one copy down at the Library and am having them ship it over. I love the Library.

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