num_pages: 224
description: When Alan Greenberg first showed up at Werner Herzogs Munich home at age twenty-four he was according to the director the first outsider to seek him and recognize his greatness. At the end of their first evening together Herzog urged Greenberg to work with him on his film Heart of Glass and everything thereafter. He clinched his plea by assuring the young American On the outside well look like gangsters but on the inside well wear the gowns of priests. Every Night the Trees Disappear is an intimate chronicle of how this visionary filmmaker directed a masterwork. Greenbergs observations interwoven with Herzogs original screenplay elucidate just how unusual Herzogs filmmaking methods could be. By hypnotizing his actors before shooting each scene Herzog led his crew into a veritable cinematic netherworld resulting in one of the most haunting movies ever made. Rather than a conventional journalistic account of how a director makes a movie Every Night the Trees Disappear instead presents a unique vision with the feel of a novelintimate penetrating and filled with mystery.
language: English
title: Every Night the Trees Disappear: Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass
publisher: Chicago Review Press