Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog/Rogue Filmmaker

David LaRocca In Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker, David LaRocca draws from a fan’s resolute passion for his subject to face head-on vexing Herzogian notions such as ecstatic truth, the sublime, and the beguiling spirit that animates the fittingly titled Rogue Film School, which the author attended. In our distracted, dissipating times, Herzog is an…

Screenplays | Werner Herzog

Mexico: The Aztec Account of the Conquest

Werner Herzog Written more than thirty years ago, Werner Herzog’s Mexico screenplay—an epic, stylized dramatisation of the conquest of the Aztec empire by Hernán Cortes and his army in 1521 —is destined to remain unfilmed. But now it can be read. An essential companion piece to the filmmaker’s earlier, celebrated South American adventures, Aguirre, the…