Anyone who has seen the wild-eyed, white suited Klaus Kinski gesticulating wildly into the South American jungle in Herzog's film "Fitzcarraldo" knows what obsession is. The motion picture tells the story of a European who decides to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle in order to lu...
You either love Werner Herzog or hate him, either think he is a genius or a pretentious blow hard, either love the liberties he takes with documenting "reality" or take umbrage with it. If you are of the camp that loves Herzog, you will thoroughly enjoy this book. Somewhere between filming diary ...