The Teutonic overthinker’s latest documentary reveals more about his strange mind than the brain writ large. Once, at the height of COVID, I dropped off a book at the home of Werner Herzog. I was an ...

Then, with nearly half the movie shot, Robards got sick and had to be evacuated ... His greatest performance, though, is a love story: his own. Werner Herzog is a hopeless romantic.

Shooting Fitzcarraldo was incredibly dangerous, but Herzog says he didn’t put anyone through anything he hadn’t first tested on himself, “So I got injured sometimes and that’s OK”.