Sunday, November 21, 2010

La Soufriere

documentary Werner Herzog

This was one of three early documentaries by WH on this disc. His oddness was firmly in place by this time...early 70's. There was a film about a ski flyer(jumper), a competition for livestock auctioneers and a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadalupe which threatened to erupt...but didn't. So he took his camera on eerie tours of an emptied city and up to the caldera evading poisonous sulfur clouds.

Compelling docs on unusual subjects.

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