Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection
by Les Blank, Maureen Gosling
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Actor: Father Mariano Gagnon, Jos? Lewgoy, Klaus Kinski, Miguel Angel Fuentes, Werner HerzogDirector: Les Blank, Maureen Gosling
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; German (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: Herzog is the MAN!
Summary: 5 Stars
Some of the reviews discuss how slow the film is, and that is true. I think the editing is slow for two reasons. One, it allowed the setting to sink in, to become another character the way Herzog stated he like to do in his films. Second, it mirrored the tedious pace of the production of the film. If the crew waits all day to film for one hour, we should wait a little too to get a sense of the numbing boredom. Having said that, the film is not boring. It is a wonderful meditation on one man's vision and the lengths to which he'll go to see them on screen. I kept asking myself, "why not just give up? This seems much too difficult and dangerous?" Giving up is what a normal person would do. This film is not about a normal person--it is about a man with a monomaniacal, dangerous vision. In the end, the film doesn't moralize, and I appreciate that. Some see Herzog as a total jerk, others see him as a visionary. This film accomodates both interpretations.
Summary of Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete the most ambitious and difficult film of his career-Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank captured the unfolding of this production, made all the more perilous by Herzog's determination to shoot the most daunting scenes without models or special effects, including a sequence requiring hundreds of natives to pull a full-sized, 320-ton steamship over a small mountain. The result is an extraordinary document of the filmmaking process and a unique look into the single-minded passion of one of cinema#s most fearless directors.Documentary DVD Video
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