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Herzog by Ebert

by Roger Ebert
Werner Herzog
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Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched by a sheer love of life that bolstered his appreciation of films. Ebert had particular admiration for the work of director Werner Herzog, whom he first encountered at the New York Film Festival in 1968, the start of a long and productive relationship between the filmmaker and the film critic.

Herzog by Ebert is a comprehensive collection of Ebert's writings about the legendary director, featuring all of his reviews of individual films, as well as longer essays he wrote for his Great Movies series. The book also brings together other essays, letters, and interviews, including a letter Ebert wrote Herzog upon learning of the dedication to him of "Encounters at the End of the World;" a multifaceted profile written at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival; and an interview with Herzog at Facet's Multimedia in 1979 that has previously been available only in a difficult-to-obtain pamphlet. Herzog himself contributes a foreword in which he discusses his relationship with Ebert.

Brimming with insights from both filmmaker and film critic, Herzog by Ebert will be essential for fans of either of their prolific bodies of work.

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    September 4, 2017

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      • ISBN: 9780226500560
      • File size: 461 KB

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    • English

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    • Library Journal

      July 1, 2017

      Before his death in 2013, legendary film critic Ebert had written just one book focusing on a single director, 2008's Scorsese by Ebert. This posthumous release collects Ebert's film reviews, essays, rare interviews, and more with one of his favorite cinematic figures, the audacious German director Werner Herzog. Ebert's admiration for Herzog began when he saw the latter's first feature-length film, Signs of Life, at the 1968 New York Film Festival. Since then, Herzog has directed over 50 films, both narrative and documentaries, often in extreme conditions about extreme characters. Through criticism and conversations with Herzog, Ebert explores the director's propensity to attempt the impossible, most famously leading a thousand extras in transferring a steamboat across land from one Amazonian river system to another in Fitzcarraldo. Readers won't be able to resist getting caught up by Ebert's enthusiasm for Herzog's bold and varied body of work. VERDICT This excellent collection will lead readers to revisit, or experience for the first time, Herzog's unique imagery, which was likely Ebert's wish.--Amanda Westfall, Emmet O'Neal P.L., Mountain Brook, AL

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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