There are filmmakers and then there’s Werner Herzog, with his distinctive, unique form of features and documentaries carving out a special place in cinematic history. His oeuvre is large and you might not know where to begin or how to start. But don’t worry, Shout Factory has you covered.
The home video company is issuing a limited edition (only 5,000 copies!) box set, “Herzog: The Collection,” featuring 16 of his acclaimed films and documentaries, 15 of which are making their Blu-ray debuts. Damn. The movies included are: “Even Dwarfs Started Small,” “Land of Silence and Darkness,” “Fata Morgana,” “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser,” “Heart of Glass,” “Stroszek,” “Woyzeck,” “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” “Fitzcarraldo,” “Ballad of the Little Soldier,” “Where the Green Ants Dream,” “Cobra Verde,” “Lessons of Darkness,” “Little Dieter Needs to Fly” and “My Best Fiend.”
To hold you over until you can devour those films, here’s an extensive, two-hour Evening With Werner Herzog, hosted by Pico Iyer for the University Of California. And yeah, pretty much everything Herzog says is kind of amazing. It’s well worth a watch.
“Herzog: The Collection” streets on July 29th (click here to order, the signed copies have already sold out).
