Fitzcarraldo

This is truly an inspirational and beautiful film. It might be a little slow for most American audiences, but the brilliant acting in all of the scenes keeps the audience as a participant throughout the film. Werner brings new visions and... Full review

It is too bad I only discovered this movie. It is truly a masterpiece of film, storytelling and incredible imagery. The genius of both the director and actor is so evident. I recommend this movie to anyone who loves madness and... Full review

This is a work of fiction, although the idea for the story and the name came from a real person who actually lived at Iquitos, Peru, and who was a rubber (not robber) baron in the eighteen-nineties.Arguably, Klaus Kinski (as... Full review

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, aka Fitzcarraldo, is as much the story of his magnanimous pie in the sky ideal to push a boat over a mountain as it is Werner Herzog's own mission to film it. More than... Full review

"Fitzcarraldo" is an ode to men who dare to have dreams and make them come true. This epic speaks volumes about a man who happens to be obsessed with the opera, which is his passion. He is a foreigner in... Full review

Fitcarraldo has a dream to have Grand Opera performed in the Amazon Jungle and goes to enormous lengths and overcomes innumerable obstacles and set backs to see his dream come to life. He even has a whole steam ship winched... Full review

Full of bravura and inspiring sequences the bizarre epic "Fitzcarraldo" won Werner Herzog the best director award at Cannes Festival in 1982. This is the film that keeps reminding us the words of Oscar Wilde, "We are all in the... Full review

Fitzcarraldo is a movie I love, but have a hard time selling others on. I’m not even sure I get the premise of it. Lunatic is trying to get natives interested in opera—OK. They’re hauling a riverboat over a hill--why not.... Full review

This is a quest plot line; the golden chalice is to be found in the interior of the Amazon, a performance by Caruso and his opera company in the early 1900's. Klaus Kinski, of the disheveled blond hair, plays the... Full review

Based on a historic figure, this is the story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as "Fitzcarraldo", an eccentric visionary living in Amazonia. He first tried building a Trans-Andean Railroad, but went bankrupt. When we meet him, he's trying... Full review

greedy officials, deranged actors and drunken helpers.....an accomplished writer with an idiosyncratic and pungent style..... ... Full Review

and he has a cinematic masterpiece to show for it.....Robards's final scene in Herzog's journals is scathing..... ... Full Review

These and other good times have been immortalized in "Conquest of the Useless," Mr. Herzog's journal about his best-known filmmaking nightmare.....while living in self-imposed exile from those who control his film's financial destiny..... ... Full Review

an interview between them would only cheapen his film....erner Herzog's films defy the very fabric of our known universe..... ... Full Review

In so many ways this film is wonderful and beautiful. The viewer will find that the film's most important character may very well be the rolling sand dunes. ... Full Review

BY: Brad Brevet | July 6th 2009 at 4:23 AM Over the July 4th weekend I finally saw Werner Herzog's much praised 2005 doc Grizzly Man and while I was watching I couldn't help but think about how amazing it... ... Full Article

Masterpiece is such an over used phrase when it comes to PIXAR - because if very nearly every film is either almost a masterpiece, a simple masterpiece or a heartbreakingly brilliant masterpiece - the meaning is drained from the word... ... Full Article

Actually moving the ancestral home "occupies the middle portion of the movie and turns it momentarily from an ambling first-person rumination into something like Werner Herzog 's Fitzcarraldo ," writes AO Scott in the New York Times . ... Full Article

By Scott A. Gray What are you up to?Ive got a bunch of recordings with my friend Bernard who used to be in Change of Heart, my friend Damion [Richardson], and Ian Blurton is helping with that. ... Full Article

Here, the director of Grizzly Man and Fitzcarraldo has recruited the scarily good, and once again scarily emaciated, Christian Bale (see The Machinist ) to play Dieter Dengler. A German-born U.S. fighter pilot shot down over Laos during a secret ... Full Article

Manaus, in the middle of the Amazon forest in Brazil, seems a strange place for a film festival. There isn't even a state-of-the-art cinema in the town of two million, so the eight films playing in competition were all shown... ... Full Article