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Of Walking In Ice
Of Walking In Ice: Munich - Paris: 23 November - 14 December, 1974 | Werner Herzog
A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film-maker and critic, was dying in Paris, he set off to walk there from Munich, in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on foot. Along the way he recorded what he saw, how he felt, and what he experienced, from the physical discomfort of the journey to moments of rapture. It is a remarkable narrative part pilgrimage, part meditation, and a confrontation between a great German Romantic imagination and the contemporary world. This edition of the book is being published for the first time as a classic piece of proto-psychogeography, to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the legendary directors walk.
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SaunteringVaguelyDownwards
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Surprised by this new sign walking into the library this morning after last night's snow. I appreciate them trying to keep patrons safe!

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Valeka
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Revisiting a book that I had set aside while I wait at the hair salon.

Kaye Whatcha getting done with your hair ? Cut or dyed or curled ? 7y
Valeka @Kaye Just getting a little trim. I wasn‘t feeling adventurous!! 7y
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Valeka
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Monday night reading.

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Jokila
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BookBabe Nice pic! 8y
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TobeyTheScavengerMonk
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I've made mention of my love of Werner Herzog on here before. He is both a brilliant director and a flipping lunatic.

In the winter of 1974, he got a call that his friend and mentor Lotte Eisner was very ill. He got it into his head that if he made it on foot from Munich to Paris to visit her she would live. So he walked. This is the journal he kept while walking through the blizzard to save Lotte.

#weather #aprilbookshowers

Dragon Believe it or not this is the second time Werner's name has come up, the first was during a movie based on aYA book 😂 8y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @Dragon Me and Earl is on my radar because I collect Criterion Collection films. Aren't they mentioned in that book/movie? 8y
Dragon The "Me and Earl" characters remake foreign films in a unique way 8y
gestapocat I really like Werner Herzogs documentary on the Texas Death Row that he filmed days prior to his execution. I'll check this out. 8y
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warrenellis
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Magnificent.

mjseidlinger \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ 9y
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