Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: A Film Legacy
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Actor: Claudia Cardinale, Isabelle Adjani, Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Werner HerzogDirector: Werner Herzog
Brand: KINSKI,KLAUS
Writer: Werner Herzog
Producer: Andre Singer
Producer: Christine Ruppert
Producer: Daniel Camino
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: Bruce Chatwin
Writer: Georg B?chner
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 648 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: A Film Legacy
DVD Review: My favorite movies
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a tremendous collection. I was first exposed to Herzog's work about 20 years ago when I saw Fitzcarraldo, and was hooked. This set contains six movies in total, including my three favorites which are Fitzcarraldo, Aguirre The Wrath of God and Cobra Verde. You have to have some patience when watching a Herzog movie. There are always some slow parts, and some things that don't seem to make much sense, but that's just part of it. What makes them special for me is the incredible images and moods Herzog manages to capture, and the absolute crazed insanity of Klaus Kinski's characters. These are movies you won't forget a few days after watching them. Some Herzog documentaries I have enjoyed but are not included in this set include Grizzly Man and Little Dieter Needs to Fly. DVD Review: A Few Good Movies
Summary: 3 Stars
Aim for the Werner Herzog Collection instead. I deeply admire the work and breadth of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. Their best films together, in my opinion, are Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo. The others are dispensable and forgettable. I'll give a rating for the movies included:
0 out of 4
Aguirre: The Wrath of God ***1/2
Fitzcarraldo ***1/2
Nosferatu **
Woyzeck **
Cobra Verde **
My Best Fiend ***1/2
Nosferatu suffered severely from blandness throughout. It didn't add anything to the original, just a pointless remake of a great film. Woyzeck was dull and overwhelmingly boring. Cobra Verde, borderline incoherence and, too, incredibly dull. I figure that this is not a bad deal considering the separate purchase of Aguirre, My Best Fiend and Fitzcarraldo would equate to the cost of this entire collection. Like I said before, buy the Werner Herzog Collection instead.
DVD Review: Herzog/Kinski DVD Box Set
Summary: 3 Stars
I finished watching all of the DVDs in the Herzog/Kinski DVD collection, and I can say I was completely disappointed. I had only seen Aguirre before several years ago, and Herzog's My Best Fiend (the Kinski "documentary") and of course had heard all the hype and praise about Kinski. But I think Herzog's abortion-like camera/editing/sound work really ruins the films. Most of the DVDs have a running commentary and it is like taking a power drill to the head to hear Herzog drone on and on about his philosophy of film or why he chose a white dress for a particular actress or why at a particular point he had a bird chirp (dubbed, of course, which I think pretty much EVERYTHING is dubbed in his films): Most of the films have both an English and German audio track, and NEITHER match the mouth movements of the actors. I remember seeing a documentary: Fellini's sound mixers telling him, after dubbing an actor's voice to match the mouth movements, the sound mixer cried out that the actor in that particular scene didn't open his mouth, to which Fellini told him to put the dialog in anyway. That he could care less. But it really bothers me to have EVERYTHING dubbed: in Herzog's case, dialog, background nature noise, even music (for instance the last scene of Fitzcarraldo, in which there is an opera being performed on a ship, to which it is obvious it is dubbed, but it would, of course have been impossible to do it live, to which I reply, then don't DO a scene where you can't record the original audio. Herzog creates these huge productions with thousands of extras, elaborate on-location sets, but then it gets ruined with all of Herzog's ineptitude--one thing, he uses a crappy camera. If Herzog would have stuck to a simple Bergman-style ensemble cast (with Kinski, of course). Kinski was like a little kid and needed to be controlled, Herzog being pretty much the only one that could control him, but instead Kinski wasted much of his talent doing one crappy movie after another, and, with Herzog's films, Kinski shone, but there are so many problems that it taints it.DVD Review: Great Collection
Summary: 5 Stars
The product was exactly as described, in wonderful condition, and a great value. It arrived quickly. Thanks!DVD Review: Awesome Set.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen all these films and loved them. So I was extremely stoked that I got this set for 29 US Dollars (51 NZ dollars). A complete steal.
Description of Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski: A Film Legacy
No Description Available.Genre: Foreign Film - German
Rating: UN
Release Date: 21-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD
The six-film Herzog/Kinski boxed set is a sleek compilation of a visionary cinematic collaboration. The history of cinema is dotted with great directors who have found an actor whose face, voice, and style capture that director's point of view: Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich; John Ford and John Wayne; Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro. In 1972, the German director Werner Herzog cast Polish actor Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God--the result was perhaps the definitive film for both. Kinski had previously made almost 100 films, but his malevolent role--as a Spanish conquistador obsessed with finding gold--shot him into international stardom. Though Herzog and the volatile Kinski were at each other's throats through much of the filming, seven years later the director cast Kinski as the tortured vampire of Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night (a color remake of the silent horror classic) and the title character of Woyzeck, based on the classic expressionistic German play about a jealous, unstable soldier who murders his lover. Both films continued the Herzog-Kinski trademark of intense unflinching emotion and the palpable presence of the raw physical world.
In 1982, Fitzcarraldo carried this ethos to new heights as Kinski portrayed a man who, in order to bring grand opera to the depths of Peru, has a huge steamship hauled over a mountainside using ropes, pulleys, and human endurance. The mad ambition of the film matched that of its hero as Herzog repeatedly placed crew and actors at risk of their lives. Nonetheless, the love-hate relationship between the director and his star carried them into one last film, the uneven but still remarkable Cobra Verde, about a Brazilian bandit sent to Africa to reopen the slave trade. After Kinski's death in 1991, Herzog made a documentary, My Best Fiend, about their decades of collaboration; the result rivals their previous work as a testament to human extremity. --Bret Fetzer
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