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Tom Mikos

25Aug10

The resistant peasant may be one of my favorite characters in cinema, and he's real.

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Răpciune

16Aug10

extreme directing could hardly be better illustrated by anyone else but Herzog.

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Daniel S.

8May10

***1/2. Good documentary of the first part of Herzog's career. The director secretly hopes that he will witness another Pompei but nothing happens. Yet, after 30 minutes, you'll be persuaded to have seen La Soufrière's eruption thanks to Herzog's prophetic voice and great sense of dramaturgy. Recommended.

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filmcapsule

1May10

Another example of Herzog's obsession with the power and volatility of nature. The fact that the "inevitable disaster" doesn't occur almost proves Herzog's point. Nature is a powerful and unpredictable force: even its malevolence is unreliable. I like how the shots of him shouting and exaggeratedly pointing and gesturing, set against music, paint him as a silent movie hero.

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Adam Cook

15Sep09

30 minutes of delicious ecstatic truth.

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