The British Film Institute has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray
The Werner Herzog Collection. The release will be available for purchase on July 28th.
The Werner Herzog Collection will be launched with a free screening event at Rough Trade East, Brick Lane on the BFI's Werner Herzog Day, Friday 25 July. The BFI will screen
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1975, 45 mins), Werner Herzog's rarely-shown documentary about a champion ski-jumper featuring an outstanding Popol Vuh soundtrack. The film will be introduced by a BFI film expert and will be preceded by DJs playing the best of Popol Vuh and other Krautrock classics.
Containing 18 films by the visionary German filmmaking legend, the collection includes such classics of world cinema as
Nosferatu the Vampyre, Aguirre, Wrath of God and
Fitzcarraldo, as well as a number of Herzog's acclaimed, but rarely seen short films.
THE FILMS:
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) | Last Words (1968) | Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) | Handicapped Future (1970) | Fata Morgana (1971) | Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) | Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972) | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) | The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1975) | Heart of Glass (1976) | How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) | Stroszek (1977) | Nosferatu, the Vampyre (1979) | Woyzeck (1979) | Huie's Sermon (1980) | God's Angry Man (1980) | Fitzcarraldo (1982) | Cobre Verde (1987).
Special Features:
- All films presented in High Definition
- Alternative German and English versions of Nosteratu, the Vampyre
- Full-length audio commentaries with Werner Herzog on selected titles
- Alternative German and English language audio options on selected titles
- Newly created subtitles for all films
- Optional 5.1 German and English audio on selected titles
- Nosferatu on-set documentary (1979, 13 mins)
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Les Blank, 1980, 21 mins)
- Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982, 95 mins)
- Guardian Lecture with Werner Herzog (1988, 83 mins)
- South Bank Show: Werner Herzog (Jack Bond, 1982, 56 mins)
- Original trailers on selected titles
- Stills galleries on selected titles
- Illustrated booklet with extensive essay by Laurie Johnson; full film credits