My Best Fiend
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1h 38m
Directed by Werner Herzog | 99 mins | 1999
Amidst insults hurled, tantrums thrown, and some literal shots fired, Herzog’s collaboration with the notoriously explosive Klaus Kinski produced five indelible films, from 1972’s "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" to 1987’s "Cobra Verde". “Every gray hair on my head I call Kinski,” says Herzog—and this rollicking documentary portrait of one of cinema’s greatest and most storied partnerships is ample proof that the director was lucky to have gotten off with just silvered temples.
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