Saturday, July 12, 2003

Insanity and Genius. A more apt description of the director's art could not be found. And it's also the title of a retrospective look at the films of director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski at the Goethe Institute. Kinsksi, genius and egomaniac. Herzog, obsessed visionary. Together, they made the memorable Fitzcarraldo, a mad dream of a movie about building an opera house in the middle of a South American jungle. "It's not only just a movie. It's really my life," Werzog said.

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