At the time of his death in 2013, Roger Ebert was arguably the most influential writer about movies in the United States. He had been film critic for the ?Chicago Sun-Times” for over 45 years, reviewing more movies than any other critic active during that time and pioneering in both television reporting and reviewing. In 1975 he was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Among the film directors who started working at about the same time Ebert started writing for the ?Sun-Times,” two inspired a particularly intense devotion. One was Martin Scorsese, the subject of ?Scorsese by Ebert” (published in 2008). The other was Werner Herzog--Ebert first saw one of his films at the New York Film Festival in 1968. This volume gathers together all Ebert’s reviews of individual films (as well as longer pieces he wrote for ?The Great Movies” series), free-wheeling interviews, and essays in which he discusses various aspects of Herzog’s achievement. It also includes a longer interview/discussion with Herzog at Facet’s Multimedia in 1979 (”Images at the Horizon”), which offers fascinating details about Herzog’s early career. Herzog himself has contributed a Foreword in which he discusses their long relationship. As one of the readers of the manuscript noted, ?’Herzog by Ebert’ documents a unique and productive relationship between a filmmaker and a film critic. Anyone who watches Herzog’s films will surely benefit from Ebert’s insights.” It will be an essential book for all who admire Herzog’s (and Ebert’s) work.
Roger Ebert was the most influential film critic in the United States, the first to win a Pulitzer Prize. For almost fifty years, he wrote with plainspoken eloquence about the films he loved for the Chicago Sun-Times, his vast cinematic knowledge matched by a sheer love of life that bolstered his appreciation of films. Ebert had particular admiration for the work of director Werner Herzog, whom he first encountered at the New York Film Festival in 1968, the start of a long and productive relationship between the filmmaker and the film critic.
Herzog by Ebert is a comprehensive collection of Ebert’s writings about the legendary director, featuring all of his reviews of individual films, as well as longer essays he wrote for his Great Movies series. The book also brings together other essays, letters, and interviews, including a letter Ebert wrote Herzog upon learning of the dedication to him of “Encounters at the End of the World;” a multifaceted profile written at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival; and an interview with Herzog at Facet’s Multimedia in 1979 that has previously been available only in a difficult-to-obtain pamphlet. Herzog himself contributes a foreword in which he discusses his relationship with Ebert.
Brimming with insights from both filmmaker and film critic, Herzog by Ebert will be essential for fans of either of their prolific bodies of work.
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