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Release Date: 10 February, 2004 Retail Price: $89.98 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
Herzog/Kinski Collection Reviews
Buy this while you can!
Anchor Bay have rereleased this collection (originally released in 2002 and later withdrawn) for a limited time. If you have any interest in it, you should grab it before it goes. The folks at Anchor Bay (bless 'em) have one major fault: they let some of their most interesting titles (Ipcress File, Sleuth, Wicker Man LE) go out of print.
At least three of the Herzog-Kinski collaborations are must-have masterpieces: Aguirre, Nosferatu, and Fitzcarraldo. Since you can get the whole collection for the same price as those three films individually, you'd be silly not to. My Best Fiend comes off well as a sort of "extra" to the whole collection.
As other reviewers have said, the transfers and extras do the films justice. I have only 3 minor complaints: (1) By buying the collection, you don't get the English-language version of Nosferatu. I prefer the German version, but I'm also a completist, so it annoys me. (2) For some reason, Herzog didn't supply commentary for Woyzek. Since he did for the other four features, this is a glaring omission. (3) Why didn't Anchor Bay invest in adding Les Blank's docu Burden of Dreams (about the making of Fitzcarraldo)? It would have made a wonderful extra for this set and could have fit alongside My Best Fiend.
None of these complaints should stop you from getting this collection. Overall, this collection offers fantastic value!
worth every penny you'll spend on it!
...as aguirre & fitzcarraldo are undoubtedly two of the greatest films in cinematic history & worth having in any dvd collection & if you are thus possibly considering adding them to your dvd collection, why not then spring for a few bucks more & get the whole of these two brilliant men's collaborations? the remake of nosferatu is very nearly on the level of the murnau original & while some reviewers have the tendency to slight both woyzeck & cobra verde as wholes, kinski's performances in both are certainly spectacular, with his performance in woyzeck being very nearly (as kinski himself might have said) epochal. an excellent set that also includes herzog's documentary/memoir of his professional relationship with kinski, my best fiend, this collection should be required viewing for most of the so-called directors whose unfortunate dreck/garbage/schmaltz graces the big screen everywhere these days...
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