Raoul Peck’s Fatal Assistance, on the other hand, holds an appropriately cynical attitude toward spectacle.
The following list is no doubt a statement about how I approach life.
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard is quite simply the most lavish historical epic ever captured on celluloid.
Klaus Kinski’s infamous intensity and lunacy are both on vivid display in Klaus Kinski: Jesus Christ the Savior.
Herzog’s world is harsh and cruel, dominated by a violent natural order in which humanity’s place is precarious at best.
Mismatched plots, mixed motivations, dogs and cats living together…mass hysteria!
From Whence We Came, So Soon We Will Return: Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, The Wrath of God
by Dan Jardine
The film has a lot to say about the destructive forces wrought upon mankind and nature by people who choose to impose their lunatic visions upon us.