TfH is at its best when you get immensely skilled & experienced scholar/practitioners like Joe Dante or John Sayles seriously addressing their favourite films, thanks!
I've got great memories of watching films by Herzog and Cassavetes in the early/mid '90s usually in some grimy university auditorium surrounded by art house film nuts. I vividly remember seeing this one at The New School (NYC) in some half empty classroom late one night.
What a great movie!. I saw this in '77, and it made me a fan of Herzog's for life. To borrow an image of what one gentleman has posted; that opening shot of everyone walking that incredibly narrow path, down the side of very steep mountain, was something I don't think I'd ever seen (except, maybe with ants). And Kinski's revolting behavior aside, he does a fantastic job as 'Aguirre'. That last shot of him on the raft, alone - other than approx. 1000 monkeys - is amazing.
Awesome movie experience. Saw it several times and it gets more fascinating, the often you watch it and the more information you gather about the production circumstances.
I've got great memories of watching films by Herzog and Cassavetes in the early/mid '90sm usually in some grimy university auditorium surrounded by art house film nuts. I vividly remember seeing this one at The New School (NYC) in some classroom late one night.
The opening shot of those men descending from the mountain deliberately echoes the image of marching ants. Herzog is declaring that we are all just bugs and we could be squashed without mercy.
Wonder if this was one of the many foreign classics that Roger Corman actually helped usher into public consciousness/distributed throughout the late sixties and through the seventies (Basically from around the time he missed out on "Easy Rider" to the beginning of the end for "New World Pictures"). I know that they (Corman and Herzog) met at least once, during a private screening held for Corman who was pondering its US-Distribution Rights. Said screening was described as a wonderful, even transcendent evening by all of the lucky few who got to watch the pair of icons finding the measure of the other as the film played on (Essentially reduced to background noise by the half way point lol)
😏I've viewed several of Herzog's works & my conclusion is he isn't on his own side & makes things unnecessarily difficult for himself, his crew & his actors.
TfH is at its best when you get immensely skilled & experienced scholar/practitioners like Joe Dante or John Sayles seriously addressing their favourite films, thanks!
A truly great movie. And it needs saying...
John Sayles. One of America's greatest directors.
Klaus Kinki was certainly one of a kind. Been meaning to watch this for years - sadly no cinema will be showing it other than the BFI
I saw this way back in the day either at the NuArt or the Art Theater in Long Beach CA. Now I really really want to see it again.
I've got great memories of watching films by Herzog and Cassavetes in the early/mid '90s usually in some grimy university auditorium surrounded by art house film nuts. I vividly remember seeing this one at The New School (NYC) in some half empty classroom late one night.
What a great movie!. I saw this in '77, and it made me a fan of Herzog's for life. To borrow an image of what one gentleman has posted; that opening shot of everyone walking that incredibly narrow path, down the side of very steep mountain, was something I don't think I'd ever seen (except, maybe with ants). And Kinski's revolting behavior aside, he does a fantastic job as 'Aguirre'. That last shot of him on the raft, alone - other than approx. 1000 monkeys - is amazing.
I don't think the monkeys were that many... :p
Awesome movie experience. Saw it several times and it gets more fascinating, the often you watch it and the more information you gather about the production circumstances.
I've got great memories of watching films by Herzog and Cassavetes in the early/mid '90sm usually in some grimy university auditorium surrounded by art house film nuts. I vividly remember seeing this one at The New School (NYC) in some classroom late one night.
@@juniorjames7076 That was a blast for sure! 😊👍
The opening shot of those men descending from the mountain deliberately echoes the image of marching ants. Herzog is declaring that we are all just bugs and we could be squashed without mercy.
Wonder if this was one of the many foreign classics that Roger Corman actually helped usher into public consciousness/distributed throughout the late sixties and through the seventies (Basically from around the time he missed out on "Easy Rider" to the beginning of the end for "New World Pictures").
I know that they (Corman and Herzog) met at least once, during a private screening held for Corman who was pondering its US-Distribution Rights. Said screening was described as a wonderful, even transcendent evening by all of the lucky few who got to watch the pair of icons finding the measure of the other as the film played on (Essentially reduced to background noise by the half way point lol)
I miss Klaus Kinski
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said nobody.
😏I've viewed several of Herzog's works & my conclusion is he isn't on his own side & makes things unnecessarily difficult for himself, his crew & his actors.
I always felt bad for that poor horse they left behind. 🐴😥
Although I don't know, he might have outlived them all.
Yes, it lived. In fact, Herzog once said that he was thinking of making a spin-off film with how it survived.
Lol, just kidding. :p
Amazing movie
One of my favorite jungle movies other than The Mission.
George of the Jungle is great too. :p