Every Night the Trees Disappear : Werner Herzog and the Making of Heart of Glass

"You know from seeing it that Herzog was up to something strange in filming Heart of Glass. Now the mystery is clarified. Alan Greenberg peers into the heart of darkness of the great artist." Roger Ebert "Mesmerizing . . . as poetic and mysterious as the film itself."Jim Jarmusch This intimate chronicle of the visionary filmmaker Werner Herzog directing a masterwork is interwoven with Herzog's original screenplay to create a unique vision of its own. Alan Greenberg was, according to the director, the first "outsider" to seek him out and recognize his greatness. At the end of their first evening together Herzog urged Greenberg to work with him on his new film--and everything thereafter. In this film, Heart of Glass, Herzog exercised control over his actors by hypnotizing them before shooting their scenes. The result was one of the most haunting movies ever made. Not since Lillian Ross's classic 1950 book Picture has an American writer given such a close, first-hand,... Number of Words in Auth: 5 Formats : EPUB Number of Formats : 1 Has Cover : Yes Single Author : Alan Greenberg Original Source : Mirc New Files 07 02 Sorted Author by LN, FN: Greenberg, Alan & Herzog, Werner Title Length : 031 Title Parm D : Every Night the Trees Disappear Title Parm F : Every Night the Trees Disappear Title Parm G : Every Night the Trees Disappear Title Parm A : Every Night the Trees Disappear Title Parm B : ( Record ID : 249 Uncomma Author : Alan Greenberg & Werner Herzog Num of Aut : 2 'You know from seeing it that Herzog was up to something strange in filming Heart of Glass. Now the mystery is clarified. Alan Greenberg peers into the heart of darkness of the great artist.'—Roger Ebert“Mesmerizing... as poetic and mysterious as the film itself.”—Jim JarmuschThis intimate chronicle of the visionary filmmaker Werner Herzog directing a masterwork is interwoven with Herzog's original screenplay to create a unique vision of its own. Alan Greenberg was, according to the director, the first “outsider” to seek him out and recognize his greatness. At the end of their first evening together Herzog urged Greenberg to work with him on his new film--and everything thereafter. In this film, Heart of Glass, Herzog exercised control over his actors by hypnotizing them before shooting their scenes. The result was one of the most haunting movies ever made. Not since Lillian Ross's classic 1950 book Picture has an American writer given such a close, first-hand, book-length account of how a director makes a movie. But this is not a conventional, journalistic account. Instead it presents a unique vision with the feel of a novel--intimate, penetrating, and filled with mystery. Alan Greenberg is a writer, film director, film producer, and photographer. He is also the author of Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson. Werner Herzog is considered one of the world's greatest filmmakers. His books include Conquest of the Useless and Of Walking in Ice.

When Alan Greenberg first showed up at Werner Herzog’s 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 we’ll look like gangsters, but on the inside we’ll wear the gowns of priests.'

Every Night the Trees Disappear is an intimate chronicle of how this visionary filmmaker directed a masterwork. Greenberg’s observations, interwoven with Herzog’s original screenplay, elucidate just how unusual Herzog’s 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 novel-intimate, penetrating, and filled with mystery.

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.