Werner Herzog: a guide for the perplexed

"Werner Herzog was once hailed by François Truffaut as the most important filmmaker alive. Famous for his frequent collaborations with the mercurial actor Klaus Kinski--including the epics Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, and the terrifying Nosferatu--and more recently with documentaries such as Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and Into the Abyss, Herzog has built a body of work that is one of the most vital of post-war European cinema"--Jacket.

Substantially revised and updated edition of: Herzog on Herzog. London ; New York : Faber and Faber, 2002.

"Ff"--Spine.

Foreword / by Harmony Korine -- Visionary vehemence / by Paul Cronin -- The shower curtain. A lost western ; Herakles ; Game in the sand ; The unprecedented defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz -- Blasphemy and mirages. Signs of life ; Last words ; Precautions against fanatics ; The flying doctors of East Africa ; Fata Morgana ; Even dwarfs started small -- Adequate imagery. Handicapped future ; Land of silence and darkness ; Aguirre, the wrath of God -- Athletics and aesthetics. The great ecstasy of woodcarver Steiner ; No one will play with me ; The enigma of Kaspar Hauser ; Heart of glass -- Legitimacy. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck ... ; Stroszek ; La soufrière ; Nosferatu the Vampyre ; Woyzeck -- Defying gravity. God's angry man ; Huie's sermon ; Fitzcarraldo ; Ballad of the little soldier ; The dark glow of the mountains -- Going rogue -- Reveries and imagination. Where the green ants dream ; Cobra verde ; Les français vus par ... les gauloises ; Wodabe : herdsmen of the sun ; Echoes from a sombre empire ; The eccentric private theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur ; Scream of stone -- Fact and truth. Lessons of darkness ; Bells from the deep : faith and superstition in…