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  • Question: You have said that your books -- such as 2004's "Conquest of the Useless," which is based on the journal you kept while filming "Fitzcarraldo" -- will outlive your films.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • Question: You have said that your books -- such as 2004's "Conquest of the Useless," which is based on the journal you kept while filming "Fitzcarraldo" -- will outlive your films.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • Question: You have said that your books -- such as 2004's "Conquest of the Useless," which is based on the journal you kept while filming "Fitzcarraldo" -- will outlive your films.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • Question: You have said that your books -- such as 2004's "Conquest of the Useless," which is based on the journal you kept while filming "Fitzcarraldo" -- will outlive your films.

    PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All 2010

  • There's also an evocation of "Fitzcarraldo," as Carl and Russell tug the house through the jungle toward the falls -- a rather bland and barely effortful evocation, since the house still hovers above them -- and the reappearance of the adventurer Charles Muntz, who is far from the inspirational figure Carl and Ellie once found him to be.

    Reaching for the Sky, 'Up' Fails to Soar 2009

  • Technology has helped me fill in the holes, whether that's renting "Fitzcarraldo" from Netflix or getting an overnighted copy of "The Leopard" by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

    The Best Seat in the House 2008

  • Winch a boat over a mountain in the middle of the jungle, as he did in "Fitzcarraldo"?

    The Holy Mythmaker 2007

  • Over the last couple of days I watched the Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo which is considered to be a masterpiece by some, albeit a flawed one.

    Anyone? Anyone? Fitzcarraldo? Jeff 2007

  • Over the last couple of days I watched the Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo which is considered to be a masterpiece by some, albeit a flawed one.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Jeff 2007

  • Given his stature, fecund mind and productivity -- Herzog has made 11 features and 34 documentaries since 1962 -- I find it deranging that his last major theatrical release was "Fitzcarraldo" back in 1982.

    The Holy Mythmaker 2007

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