Werner Herzog Retrospective

Thursday, November 09, 2006
Werner Herzog Retrospective

Phyllis Wattis Theater
5:30 p.m.

Aguirre, the Wrath of God
By Werner Herzog, 1972, 93 min.

An ill-fated 1560 expedition into the Peruvian jungle provides the narrative genesis for Herzog's groundbreaking Aguirre, which imagines a grueling trek along the Amazon River by conquistadors hungry for gold. Madness sets in as the party ventures deeper into the wilds - battling hunger, exhaustion, and attacks by natives - and the expedition's fate falls under the increasingly ruthless leadership of the title character (Klaus Kinski). Aguirre is introduced by SFMOMA curator Dominic Willsdon and followed by a discussion of the film and Herzog's work in general. Speakers include San Francisco Film Society Executive Director Graham Leggat, who awarded Herzog the 2006 SFFS Directing Award; Tom Luddy, Telluride Film Festival co-director and the first to screen Aguirre in the United States; and Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen, the Los Angeles-based curator who is the son of Herzog's principal sound collaborator, Florian Fricke.

$10 general; $8 SFMOMA members, students, and seniors. Tickets are available at the Museum (with no surcharge) or online.

Part of Werner Herzog Retrospective.

Supported by the Susan Wildberg Morgenstein Fund and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.

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