Werner Herzog

An exceptional memoir by the world-famous, pioneering filmmaker who directed the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man. Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema. Building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been...

An exceptional memoir by the world-famous, pioneering filmmaker who directed the multi-award-winning Grizzly Man. Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema. Building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been...

For the first time in red spine, Werner Herzog's legendary document of his most infamous act—the filming of his masterpiece, Fitzcarraldo. A fever-dream journal documenting the making of cinema's most infamous production, from the world's most infamously visionary director—Werner Herzog. In 1982, the visionary film director Werner Herzog released Fitzcarraldo, a lavish film about a would-be rubber baron who pulls...

A timely and compelling meditation on the nature of truth and lies, fact and fiction, by the legendary filmmaker and global cultural icon. What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less true than the grief we feel over the death of...

Of Walking in Ice is Herzog's existential journey through a hostile winter landscape, one of the great modern pilgrimages. It is a record of physical suffering, hallucination, ecstatic revelation, portents and animals, and the wreckage of history and myth. The work has the eerie power of the best fairytales, hitting you with the force of dreams and leaving you with...

Werner Herzog doesn't write traditional screenplays; he writes fever dreams brimming with madness, greed, humour, and dark isolation that can shift dramatically during production. These fever dreams have materialised into extraordinary masterpieces unlike anything in film today. Harnessing his vision and transcendent reality, these four pieces of long-form prose earmark a renowned filmmaker at the dawn of his career.

In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed that an act of walking would keep Eisner from death. He took a jacket, a compass, and a duffel bag of...