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Review: Werner Herzog: Interviews, edited by Eric Ames, and Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, edited by Paul Cronin

Review: Werner Herzog: Interviews, edited by Eric Ames, and Werner Herzog: A Guide for the... Foundation. Even though her text occasionally contains unforgettable event captured in Les Blank’s infamous short overstatements—not quite “every studio head in Hollywood documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), in which during the studio system was Jewish” (24), as she credits Neal Herzog fulfilled his promise to Errol Morris, for completing Gabler for asserting—and stylistic infelicities, she has pro- his first film, Gates of Heaven (1978): he literally ate a shoe, or duced a book that comes across as both careful and compre- rather a well-cooked leather hiking boot, carefully prepared hensive, at least to a layperson such as myself. She’s especially in the kitchen of Chez Panisse, with owner-chef Alice informative about the different sort of labor struggles en- Waters providing culinary tips on how best to season and countered and resolved in writing for movies and television, stew. Herzog was in town to give a talk on Little Dieter and even the significant differences between writing for tele- Needs to Fly (1997). vision on the East Coast and the West Coast. At the time, I was writing an article on the film and was For readers who find the subject of Hollywood as a business surprised when http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Film Quarterly University of California Press

Review: Werner Herzog: Interviews, edited by Eric Ames, and Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, edited by Paul Cronin

Gerhardt, Christina
Film Quarterly , Volume 69 (1): 3 – Sep 1, 2015
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10.1525/fq.2015.69.1.102
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Foundation. Even though her text occasionally contains unforgettable event captured in Les Blank’s infamous short overstatements—not quite “every studio head in Hollywood documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), in which during the studio system was Jewish” (24), as she credits Neal Herzog fulfilled his promise to Errol Morris, for completing Gabler for asserting—and stylistic infelicities, she has pro- his first film, Gates of Heaven (1978): he literally ate a shoe, or duced a book that comes across as both careful and compre- rather a well-cooked leather hiking boot, carefully prepared hensive, at least to a layperson such as myself. She’s especially in the kitchen of Chez Panisse, with owner-chef Alice informative about the different sort of labor struggles en- Waters providing culinary tips on how best to season and countered and resolved in writing for movies and television, stew. Herzog was in town to give a talk on Little Dieter and even the significant differences between writing for tele- Needs to Fly (1997). vision on the East Coast and the West Coast. At the time, I was writing an article on the film and was For readers who find the subject of Hollywood as a business surprised when

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Published: Sep 1, 2015

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