Pop Up Kino, a monthly German film series, presents Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Peru 1560. Driven by the hunger for power and wealth, a troop of conquistadors led by Lope de Aguirre ...

Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...

In a short series of downward tilt shots, the camera – unseen, but a “felt” presence throughout, as drops of moisture on the lens later testify – picks out insect-like figures tentatively making their ...

With a production crew that you could count on all fingers, even subtracting the one that the crazed star blew off of an extra’s hand with a pistol, and with cameras that the crazed director ...

“One of the great haunting visions of the cinema…What Herzog sees in the story, I think, is what he finds in many of his films: Men haunted by a vision of great achievement, who commit the sin of ...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God How to explain Klaus Kinski to Americans unfamiliar with the dead German actor? Think of him as a kind of Teutonic Dennis Hopper—only crazier. He’s probably best known for ...

German film director Werner Herzog speaks during a conference in La Paz, Bolivia, Friday, April 10, 2015. Herzog will direct his next movie titled "Salt and Fire" in Bolivia. (AP Photo/Juan Karita) It ...