Recently I’ve been listening to comedian Paul F. Tompkins’ utterly hilarious impersonation of director Werner Herzog on various podcasts (Doug Loves Movies, The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project), that gave me the impetus to finally watch the REAL Werner Herzog’s documentary about his friend/enemy, the most difficult actor in history Klaus Kinski.
Together they made some great movies (Aguirre, Nosferatu, Woyzeck and Fitzcarraldo), there is no doubt that they both were immensely talented and artistically brought out the best in each other, they were also both insane.
Kinski in particular comes across as deeply mentally unstable and this documentary doesn’t even touch on some of the worst things he did in his life, only one of his children went to his funeral in 1991.
It’s very interesting, Herzog switches between complaining about his frienemy and praising him as a genius. I would have liked to have seen more behind the scenes footage from the movies they worked on, but apparently as soon as Herzog finishes a movie he destroys anything that doesn’t make the final cut.
7.5/10
In case you’re interested in listening to Paul F. Tompkins as Werner Herzog: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-travel-bug-with-august-lindt/
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