''This isn't true, of course,'' he insists. Herzog in close-up telling us that Kinski had accused him of insanity. Herzog at his best, that just showing it again in ''My Best Fiend'' is a rebuttal to Kinski's boast.įrom a close-up of Kinski as Aguirre, his fiery eyes transfixing us with a deranged gaze, the film cuts to Mr. The shot is so good, and so characteristic of Mr. Without any signs of civilization, we seem to be present at the dawn of creation, and the invading Spaniards coming down the mountain resemble a parade of insects foolishly intruding on primeval nature. Then he shows us that wonderful opening shot. Herzog any more reliable? Taking us back to the Peruvian locations of ''Aguirre'' and sitting by the mountain that appeared in that film's opening shot, he tells us that Kinski wanted a picture postcard view of the ruins of Machu Picchu. Kinski is an unreliable narrator it's part of his persona as a bad boy. He even helped Kinski find expletives in the dictionary to use against him. Herzog, he gave his consent to his own vilification. Herzog holds Kinski's autobiography in his hands and says Kinski explained that no one would read the book unless he wrote bad things about the director. Standing in the German countryside near where the actor used to live, Mr. Herzog, though much younger than Kinski, presents himself in the documentary as a kind of father figure to Kinski's bad boy. Herzog has a chance to set the record straight, or at least to tell his side of the story. Herzog: ''I've never in my life met anybody so dull, humorless, up-tight, inhibited, mindless, depressing, boring and swaggering.'' Now, with ''My Best Fiend,'' Mr. When Kinski published his autobiography, ''Kinski: I Need Love'' (''Kinski Uncut'' in the English translation) just before his death in 1991, he wrote disparagingly of Mr. 16, is the German director Werner Herzog's documentary about his tumultuous, love-hate relationship with Klaus Kinski, the actor who starred in five of Mr. ''My Best Fiend,'' at the Film Forum through Nov. What kind of performance is this? The anger, the derangement must have been part of the act, but still it looks awfully real, a performance gone out of control. Again he walks off the stage in angry response to a spectator, this time hurling not only insults but the microphone and its stand as he exits. It's his peculiar brand of intensity bordering on insanity. Then the title of the film comes onto the screen: ''My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski.'' Of course. When another spectator grabs the microphone and talks about Jesus' tolerance, the man who speaks as Jesus invokes His anger and furiously walks off. I am not your Superstar.'' Is he out of his mind? Is he part of some crazy cult? With the same ferocity he pushes aside an audience member who climbs onstage and tries to speak. He points at the audience and shouts with ferocity, ''First, cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then the mote from mine!'' This man is not merely quoting Scripture he is also speaking as Jesus Christ himself: ''I am not the Jesus of the official Church, whom the police, bankers, judges, hangmen, officers, church bosses, politicians and other powerful people tolerate. THE film opens with a man in the spotlight clutching a microphone.
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