Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe in ‘Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe’
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One of the coolest films seeing release in theaters this week is All in This Tea , opening at Cinema Village and directed by legendary documentarian Les Blank. Blank has made dozens of films over a career spanning well over four decades; he is perhaps best known for the notorious Burden of Dreams , his 1982 portrait of Werner Herzog directing Fitzcarraldo in the Amazonian jungle. A couple ...
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Published 6/26/2008 at Videogum
... and the internet, you really don't have to buy into anything if you don't want to, and I think that the "shoot your television" crowd are on the losing end of philosophical relevance. THAT BEING SAID, Werner Herzog is a winner, and in the late '70s he told his friend Errol Morris that if he ever finished his film (which turned into the great Gates of Heaven), he would eat his shoe. And he did. And documentarian Les Blank made a film about it. And watch it. "I have survived so many Kentucky Fried Chicken so it won't do harm to me," indeed. ...
