Process presents Les Blank with Burden of Dreams, Fitzcarraldo at the Silent Movie Theater

at Cinefamily
611 N Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, 90036

4/29 @ 8:00pm / SERIES: MAKING OFs...

Burden Of Dreams
shown with
Fitzcarraldo
Co-presented by Process Media

Burden Of Dreams - 8:00pm

The astounding, arduous three-year journey to create Fitzcarraldo also became, thanks to master chronicler Les Blank, one of the greatest documentaries ever made about filmmaking. Blank’s unforgettable portrait of Werner Herzog reenacting the mammoth attempt to build a riverboat opera house on the Amazon blurs the line between creator, subject, and interpreter, with legendary creative madmen Herzog and Fitzcarraldo star Klaus Kinski creating a masterpiece under the most chaotic circumstances imaginable. Alongside Kinski's temper tantrum aneurysms and Herzog calmly weathering the storm, you’ll see rare footage of Mick Jagger and Jason Robards before they exited the production, along with an amazing exploration of the South American Indians used in the film, whose lives and routines will greatly enhance your appreciation for the main feature. Long before Hearts of Darkness exposed the titanic insanity behindthe making of a jungle epic,Burden Of Dreams was the original study in just how far a filmmaker will go to achieve his vision on the big screen. Les Blank will appear for a post-screening Q&A!
Dir. Les Blank, 1982, DigiBeta, 95 min.

Fitzcarraldo - 10:00pm

The reigning champ of deranged real-life adventures undertaken in the name of cinema, Werner Herzog’s Fizcarraldo fictionalizes the mad, true-life mission of South American rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) to establish an opera house in the Peruvian jungle -- which can only be accomplished by hauling a gigantic river boat over a mountain. No special effects here; this is the real deal, with the impractical, berserk results executed before your very eyes! This feat aside, one of Kinski’s most intense performances makes this a must-see on its own, but you also get phenomenal cinematography by Thomas Mauch, a riveting score by regular Herzog music provider Popol Vuh, and the gorgeous Claudia Cardinale. Think of it as the romantic, uplifting flipside to Aguirre: The Wrath of God, a backbreaking epic unlike any other that ecstatically treads the line between a portrait of madness and a genuine expression of obsession.
Dir. Werner Herzog, 1982, 35mm, 157 min.

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