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• Werner Herzog's web-page
  Contains bibliography and filmography, many stills. Only source for some of Herzog's rarer movies.

• Werner Herzog group at youtube.
  Includes interviews and some shorts.

• The Werner Herzog archive (blog).
  Includes interviews, articles, etc.

Writings on Herzog

• The Ecstatic Truth By: Zalewski, Daniel. New Yorker, 4/24/2006, Vol. 82 Issue 10, p124-139, 15p, 1bw; (AN 20561411) (accessible through the DePaul libraries web-page)

• THE SECRET MAINSTREAM. By: Bissell, Tom. Harper's Magazine, Dec2006, Vol. 313 Issue 1879, p69-78, 10p, 4c; (AN 23117337) (accessible through the DePaul libraries web-page)

Writings by Herzog

• The Minnesota Declaration
• Interview with Roger Ebert at Facets 1979 Werner Herzog workshop

Herzog Movies

    Rescue Dawn

• Rescue Dawn (trailer)

    Grizzly Man

• Timothy Treadwell
• Examining the 'Grizzly' Details (Washington Post)

    Cobra Verde

• NYT article Where Heart of Darkness Begets Head of Nuttiness 
• based on Bruce Chatwin's Viceroy of Ouidah

    Fitzcarraldo

• Jason Robards versus Klaus Kinski

    Woyzeck

• Büchner's stage play Woyzeck which the movie is based on  

    Nosferatu

• Murnau's original Nosferatu at youtube (discussion of different DVD versions) 
• Casper, Linville: Romantic Inversions in Herzog's Nosferatu    
• Bruce Kawin: Nosferatu

   Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

• background on Kaspar Hauser 

• a quick intro to sign theory (de Saussure, Morris, Peirce)

• examples of Peirce's icon, index, symbol classification of signs

• see Chapter 3 of Monaco's How to read a film for applications of sign theory to the study of movies

   Heart of Glass

• script of Heart of Glass 

   Aguirre

• opening scene of Triumph des Willens (the opening scene has been compared to the opening of Aguirre) 
• Caspar David Friedrich's Mönch am Meer<
• Questions and documents on Aguirre

   Even Dwarfs Started Small

• One comparison point: Freaks by Tod Browning   

   Signs of Life

• (roughly) based on the novella Der tolle Invalide auf dem Fort Ratonneau by Achim von Arnim   

   Shorts

• Letzte Worte at youtube (early short)

• Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker at youtube (early short)

The Herzog Universe

• Klaus Kinski,
  Herzog's best fiend

• Popol Vuh (Florian Fricke)
  Composed the music for many of Herzog's most famous movies, including Nosferatu, Aguirre, and Fitzcarraldo

• Caspar David Friedrich
  Compare Friedrich's landscapes to Herzog's

• Matthias Grünewald, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Hercules Segers,
  Other painters mentioned as influential by Herzog

• Lotte Eisner
  Film critic

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