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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Les Blank’s intimate, wryly observant record of Herzog making Fitzcarraldo shares My Best Fiend’s fascination with artistic obsession, impossible productions, and the volatile force of Herzog’s collaborators.
02
Why this pick
Like Herzog’s candid reckoning with Kinski, it uses a confrontational personal encounter to probe performance, ego, and the unsettling overlap between storytelling and reality.
03
Why this pick
This tragicomic production chronicle finds the same exhilaration and dread in filmmaking pushed beyond control, with an artist’s grand vision colliding with practical chaos.
04
Why this pick
For Herzog’s distinctive reflective voice without the Kinski focus, this turns an encounter with ancient art into an atmospheric meditation on creativity, mortality, and human compulsion.
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Why this pick
It shares the pleasure of an outsized filmmaker recounting an uncompromising vision, balancing affectionate portraiture with amazement at the ego and imagination required to pursue it.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
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01 / THE STORY
My Best Fiend (German: Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski, literally My Dearest Foe - Klaus Kinski) is a 1999 German documentary film written and directed by Werner Herzog, about his tumultuous yet productive relationship with German actor Klaus Kinski.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Herself
Himself - Wilbur (archive footage)
Herself
Fitzcarraldo (archive footage)
Himself
Himself
