Aguirre: The Wrath of God update feed
"Its easy to see why Coppola said it inspired him on making 'Apocalypse now'. Beautiful photography. Wish the dubbing was just a little better. "
""What Herzog sees in the story, I think, is what he finds in many of his films: Men haunted by a vision of great achievement, who commit the sin of pride by daring to reach for it, and are crushed by an implacable universe." - Roger Ebert"
"THE DARK SIDE Klaus Kinski There are three or four fleeting moments during Aguirre: The Wrath of God where Kinski can actually be caught staring directly into the camera. These are not fourth-wall-breaking addresses to the audience (when his Aguirre speaks aloud to no tangible audience, he is addressing himself, or the heavens, but never us) but rather, we are left to assume, brief, psychic communications with Herzog, the filmmaker with whom he began a rich yet unprecedentedly tense professional"
"22.7. PC โIn a mad world, only the mad are sane.โ โ Akira Kurosawa Yeah, except when you're Aguirre."