Herzog by Ebert

"Roger Ebert was an influential film critic in the United States, and the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about films for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert had particular admiration for the work of director Werner Herzog, whom he first encountered at the New York Film Festival in 1968, the start of a long and productive relationship between the filmmaker and the film critic. Herzog by Ebert is a comprehensive collection of Ebert's writings about the legendary director, featuring all of his reviews of individual films, as well as longer essays he wrote for his Great Movies series. The book also brings together other essays, letters, and interviews, including a letter Ebert wrote Herzog upon learning of the dedication to him of 'Encounters at the End of the World, ' a multifaceted profile written at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival; and an interview with Herzog at Facet's Multimedia in 1979. Herzog himself contributes a foreword in which he discusses his relationship with Ebert."--Provided by the publisher.

Includes index.

Foreword by Werner Herzog -- Editorial note -- Facets Multimedia, 1979 -- Images at the horizon -- Notes -- Reviews -- Aguirre, the wrath of god -- Nosferatu the vampyre -- Fitzcarraldo -- Burden of dreams (directed by Les Blank) -- Where the green ants dream -- Little Dieter needs to fly -- My best fiend -- Invincible -- Grizzly man -- The white diamond -- Rescue dawn -- Walking to Werner (directed by Linas Phillips) -- Encounters at the end of the world -- Bad lieutenant: port of call, New Orleans -- My son, my son, what have ye done -- Cave of forgotten dreams -- Into the abyss -- Interviews -- At Cannes Film Festival, May 1982 -- Herzog defies death for his films, May 20, 1984 -- Herzog finds truth beyond fact, September 29, 1998 -- A conversation with Werner Herzog, August 28, 2005 -- "Tell me about the iceberg, tell me about your dreams," July 7, 2008 -- The ecstasy of the filmmaker Herzog, April 6, 2010 -- The great movies -- Aguirre, the wrath of god -- The enigma of Kaspar Hauser -- Heart of glass -- Stroszek -- Nosferatu the vampyre -- Fitzcarraldo -- Summing up -- A letter to Werner Herzog: in praise of rapturous truth, November 17, 2007 -- Herzog and the forms of madne…