The opening scenes of Werner Herzog’s 1982 film “Fitzcarraldo” tells you everything you need to know about its main character and, in a way, about Herzog himself. We first meet Brian Sweeny Fitzgerald ...

Werner Herzog’s 1982 film “Fitzcarraldo” is the story of a driven, arguably delusional man hacking his way through the jungle in pursuit of a quixotic aspiration: to build an opera house in the Amazon ...

ROME, April 8 (Reuters) - Werner Herzog, the veteran German director of "Fitzcarraldo" and "Grizzly Man", will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year's Venice Film Festival, ...

The Moviegoer is the diary of a local film buff, collecting the best of what Chicago’s independent and underground film scene has to offer. The most interesting fact about myself that I save for such ...

Arguments, illness, confrontational actors, destroyed sets, deadly wildlife, plane crashes, flash floods, chainsawed limbs and ships being lifted across mountains. The 1982 Werner Herzog movie ...