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	Fitzcarraldo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fitzcarraldo (Klaus Kinski) is an avid lover of opera, and the Italian singer Enrico Caruso in particular.
		Fitzcarraldo buys it and sets about to take his ship up the river through dangerous Indian territory to begin harvesting his rubber.
		From the initial moments where even the viewer believes that Fitzcarraldo is a clueless daydreamer, Kinski and writer/producer/director Werner Herzog slowly and continually work on the way we see the character.
	www.dvdreview.com /html/fitzcarraldo.shtml (1350 words)

	"Fitzcarraldo" by Howard Davis and Dilwyn Jenkins
		Fitzcarraldo has returned to his long sleep and Herzog's passions and pockets have been temporarily replenished, but the Peruvian jungle still hasn't recovered from the director's latest cinematic extravaganza.
		Fitzcarraldo seizes on the idea of a close link between the oneiric world of opera and that of the dream state, a separate reality achieved through the ritualized Campa-Ashaninka Indians and communal use of hallucinogens.
		Fitzcarraldo reveals an excited understanding of this through his passion for opera, comparing the visionary belief system of a hunting and gathering culture with the relative decadence of a bourgeois art form.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC30folder/Fitzcarraldo.html (3487 words)

	Fitzcarraldo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 film written and directed by Werner Herzog starring Klaus Kinski as the title character, the entrepreneur and would-be rubber baron Irishman, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (nickname: Fitzcarraldo).
		The film is roughly based on the true story of Carlos Fermin Fitzcarraldo, a Peruvian rubber baron living in the frontier city of Iquitos, Peru.
		Mick Jagger was originally cast as Fitzcarraldo's assistant, but his shooting schedule expired and he departed to tour with the Rolling Stones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fitzcarraldo (551 words)

	Fitzcarraldo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fitzcarraldo is one of those once in a generation films conceived with faith and bonded together by zealous energy.
		The often crazed Kinski's dream in Fitzcarraldo is to build an opera house in a provincial backwater city at the cusp of the Amazon jungle.
		Fitzcarraldo is a fine transfer, capturing the majestic vision of the filmmakers.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/fitzcarraldo.htm (678 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Fitzcarraldo review
		Fitzcarraldo is a beautiful film that is alternately funny, suspenseful, and heartbreaking.
		Werner Herzog, the writer/director of Fitzcarraldo, is often compared to Francis Ford Coppola, and the making of this film to the legendary shoot of Apocalypse Now.
		Another note here is that with Fitzcarraldo being a German movie (although it was filmed in English) means that Anchor Bay has provided subtitles here, which is not the norm for them.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/fitzcarraldo.htm (661 words)

	Fitzcarraldo (1982) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		from Oakland CA Amazingly beautiful, well-acted jungle drama details entrepreneur Fitzcarraldo's attempts to mine rubber in order to raise money to accomplish his dream -- to bring grand opera to his tiny town in Peru.
		Girlfriend Cardinale buys him a boat (to help with the mining), but unfortunately can't go on the journey, which ends up with Fitz and hundreds of indians physically dragging the huge riverboat over a mountain.
		Kinski's performance is top of the line, very good direction, some very memorable scenes -- Fitzcarraldo on top of his boat playing Caruso records into the jungle, the huge boat cresting the wave of the mountain, and even the triumphant ending rings true.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0083946 (378 words)

	Amazon.com: Fitzcarraldo: Video: Werner Herzog,Klaus Kinski,José Lewgoy,Miguel Ángel Fuentes,Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo to the native Peruvians, is an avid opera lover and rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle.
		But these trees are not directly accessible by river because of dangerous rapids, so Fitzcarraldo runs his ship as close as possible via an alternate river and then enlists the aid of the native Peruvians to drag his ship over a mountain to the desired area.
		Fitzcarraldo is one of those archetype figures present wherever big money rears its head, the eternal dreamer who cannot quite pull of an idea.
	www.amazon.com /Fitzcarraldo-Werner-Herzog/dp/B00001ODHS (2759 words)

	Film as Art: Danél Griffin's Guide to Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As played by Klaus Kinski, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald—called “Fitzcarraldo” by the Peruvian locals—is a man who wholeheartedly believes in the popular saying, “With the faith of a mustard seed, you can move a mountain.” What he doesn’t know, or what he chooses to ignore, is that this old saying is a figure of speech.
		The reason they are doing so is to simply appease Fitzcarraldo’s obsessions, which are so utterly preposterous that the indigenous tribe believes that his vessel is some sort of heavenly object, and he is its divine captain.
		Kinski plays Fitzcarraldo as a man so driven that he never even stops to consider that his plan might be impossible, and when his strategy is questioned, he can only blink, stutter, and grow angry and the incompetence of everyone around him.
	uashome.alaska.edu /~jndfg20/website/fitzcarraldo.htm (1279 words)

	notcoming.com \| Fitzcarraldo
		Fitzcarraldo seems to exist largely in his mind, driven by a combination of Enrico Caruso records and an unending series of doomed pet projects, all of which consume him utterly.
		Fitzcarraldo is utterly without pretense or ego, accepting money for his schemes from Molly and constantly seeking advice from others.
		In this case, nature should logically be man’s enemy: the rapids threaten to destroy Fitzcarraldo’s boat, and his struggle up the mountain is a war against the elements of nature—gravity, untimely rainfall, and mountainous terrain.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=326 (1206 words)

	Michael Bentley's BOP blog: Don Homer says that's a nice-a donut
		Other than eating his own shoe or proclaiming "it was not a significant bullet" after being shot, he has also taken us inside the mind of a crazy grizzly bear lover and taken us on an unforgettable "Hearts of Darkness"-like journey down a river.
		But perhaps the wackiest thing he ever did was to shoot Fitzcarraldo, a film that features men moving a big boat over a mountain and actually doing it without any special effects.
		Fitzcarraldo is a man with a big dream and even bigger plans to achieve that dream.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /bentley/blog/2006/07/fitzcarraldo.cfm (601 words)

	DVD Times - Fitzcarraldo
		Always reluctant to give up, Fitzcarraldo has a dream of building an opera house in the Amazonian jungle, to bring the music of Verdi and the voice of Caruso not to the decadent and obscenely rich landowners of the rubber plantations, but to the poor people, the Indians of Iquitos.
		Fitzcarraldo isn’t short of ambition, but he is short of people with an imagination to equal his own vision or even a belief in his capabilities.
		Herzog in his 1999 documentary film, My Best Fiend (also reviewed here as part of the Herzog Kinski Collection), attempted as someone who was close to the man to give some kind of insight into what Klaus Kinski was all about and what it was that made their collaborations so unique and productive.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=10538 (1130 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - The Herzog/Kinski Collection
		Fitzgerald is a failed railroad baron, a mediocre ice producer, and a fevered dreamer haunting the frontier town of Iquitos at the turn of the last century.
		Fitzcarraldo has become as well known for the story behind its creation as for the story on screen.
		Les Blank chronicled part of the madness in his wonderful documentary Burden of Dreams, but as Herzog remarks on the commentary track (where he is joined by his brother Lucki Stipetic, who produced the film, and interviewer Norman Hill), Blank missed a lot of the wilder stories about the production.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/herzogcollection.php (3067 words)

	Fitzcarraldo soundtrack - Popol Vuh
		Fitzcarraldo tells the fascinating true story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, a wealthy opera-obsessed Irishman who wanted to build an opera in the jungle and bring out Enrico Caruso to sing there.
		To raise the huge amount of money needed for his task, he figured out how to ship rubber over a previously insurmountable piece of land by hauling an enormous river boat (in pieces) across a small mountain with aid from the local indians.
		That meant that to film Fitzcarraldo's steamship being dragged over the mountain, Herzog actually had the cast haul a 320 ton steamboat up a mountain.
	www.moviegrooves.com /shop/fitzcarraldosoundtrackpopol.htm (266 words)

	Fitzcarraldo
		Not in the least---in the end he hires an opera company to perform on board and brings them to his home town---it is not what he envisioned, it is far from it---but he is gloriously happy and will most likely start all over again.
		Fitzcarraldo is played by Klaus Kinski who the director Werner Herzog describes as follows: "He is totally mad and unpredictable.
		The movie started out starring Jason Robards in the Fitzcarraldo lead role and also starred Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones in a role as Fitzcarraldo's sidekick.
	www.mtsu.edu /~socwork/frost/crazy/fitzcarraldo.htm (1471 words)

	Fitzcarraldo
		Out of the dark void of the Amazon comes a boat, its motor dead, the shock-haired [Klaus] Kinski furiously rowing at the prow, while his mistress (Claudia Cardinale) watches anxiously behind him.
		That allows shots like the one where Fitzcarraldo and his boat captain stand in a platform at the top of the tallest tree, surveying the vastness around them."
		"The story of the making of 'Fitzcarraldo' is told in 'Burden of Dreams' (1982), a documentary by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling, who spent time in the jungle with Herzog, his mutinous crew and his eccentric star.
	www.librarymedia.org /dvd_classics/Titles/fitzcarraldo.htm (405 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fitzcarraldo (Widescreen): DVD: Werner Herzog,Klaus Kinski,José Lewgoy,Miguel Ángel Fuentes,Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Les Blank's Burden of Dreams, which documents the making of Fitzcarraldo, suggests that there may be equal amounts of hubris and genius in Herzog himself, and that he is in no small part the model for Fitzcarraldo.
		Dialogue is used very sparingly throughout Fitzcarraldo, but that's all the better, for Kinski's Fitzcarraldo doesn't need words to express his dream.
		The shot of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Fitzcarraldo) winching a gigantic steamboat up the side of a mountain in the middle of the Amazon while blasting his favorite Caruso opera from the deck in the midst of hundreds of native indians that may want to help, or may want kill him...
	www.amazon.ca /Fitzcarraldo-Widescreen-Klaus-Kinski/dp/B00001ODHV (3168 words)

	Fitzcarraldo
		To pay for this enterprise, Fitzgerald, who is known to the locals as 'Fitzcarraldo,' concocts a scheme to start a rubber plantation in a distant region of the rain forest.
		Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo may not quite be a work of genius, but it is always very well made and often bewitching.
		Fitzcarraldo allows the moviegoer to gaze upon the haphazard shanty towns of Iquitos, the dense forests of the Amazon Basin, and the slow movements of a steamboat making its way down a broad river.
	www.movierapture.com /fitzcarraldo.htm (467 words)

	Fitzcarraldo (1982) directed by Werner Herzog starring Klaus Kinski
		Instead of making entertainment for the masses, or even entertainment for a small core of viewers who will take hold of the film and keep it as a personal prize, Herzog has gone and created a film simply for himself – a film for the sake of film.
		In the opening scene, Fitzcarraldo and his "girlfriend" have rowed for two days and nights down the Amazon in order to see the great Enrico Caruso perform.
		As the two talk their way into the sold out performance, we catch a glimpse of the manic energy that K2 is able to bring to a role.
	www.dantenet.com /er/ERchives/reviews/f_reviews/fitz.html (584 words)

	Popol Vuh : Fitzcarraldo - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Of all the Popol Vuh recordings, and of all the soundtracks Florian Fricke composed for Werner Herzog's films, Fitzcarraldo is by far the most atypical.
		Given that this is a film about an opera house being built in the middle of the South American jungle so Enrico Caruso will come to perform there, it would stand to reason that opera music be used in the soundtrack.
		But for those open-minded enough to accept Fitzcarraldo on its own merits, this is a singular achievement in Fricke's composing, editing, and production career.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1010499,00.html (267 words)

	FONDAZIONE FITZCARRALDO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fitzcarraldo is organizing on 27th November 2006 at the Forum Cultural Mundial 2006 in Rio de Janeiro two sessions focused on foundations and networks about trans-national cultural cooperation.
		These sessions intend to understand what obstacles grant makers and beneficiaries encounter in developing cultural cooperation projects and what are the chance for foundations to build partnership and alliances among civil society, public authorities and cultural organisations.
		A special project developed by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo in partnership with the Regione Piemonte e Fondazione CRT: it aims at experimenting a new methodology of observation survey with the operators of museums by using ITC solutions.
	www.fitzcarraldo.it /en (367 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fitzcarraldo [1982]: DVD: Klaus Kinski,José Lewgoy,Miguel Ángel Fuentes,Paul Hittscher,Huerequeque ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		What's more, by the end of the movie, you really feel that Fitzcarraldo has earned his small triumph, and the wondrous smiles on the faces of Kinski and Claudia Cardinale prove that cinema's greatest weapon is the human face.
		It's just a shame that Anchor Bay's DVD misses several key lines in the subtitles from the superior German version, which meant skipping back the DVD to play it with the inferior English dub to catch the missing lines before switching back to German again, a sad blemish on an otherwise excellent disc.
		fitzcarraldo is probably the most epic film ever to come out of europe.klaus kinski replaces mick jagger and jason robards in the lead role which he was born to play.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fitzcarraldo-Klaus-Kinski/dp/B00006CY8R (1076 words)

	Fitzcarraldo
		Fitzcarraldo and his peers are the wealthy industrialists of Europe who have conquered and subdivided Amazonian Brazil and made their jaw-dropping fortunes creating The Rubber Industry.
		Obnoxious fat-cats all, they scoff at the slightly mad Fitz whose goal is not so much to become insanely wealthy as to become just wealthy enough to build and establish an opera house in the rubber-industry town where he lives.
		Fitzcarraldo is a simulacrum for Herzog: their undertakings are equally unlikely, dangerous, and costly.
	www.bigempire.com /gooden/fitzcarraldo.html (834 words)

	Fitzcarraldo
		If you have a dream, the only way to accomplish it is to face it head on.
		Yes, the pursuit of dreams is vital to one’s feeling of empowerment and fulfilment, but surely there are limits to the costs one should exact in their pursuit.
		Fitzcarraldo is a more objective record of a comparable fever dream, and as such is the preeminent testament of Herzog’s labor as a filmmaker.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/fitzcarraldo (489 words)

	Subzero Blue Store :: Fitzcarraldo
		This could never happen in a Hollywood film, and it should be treasured.
		Comment: Fitzcarraldo deserves to be seen on the big screen.
		Comment: Nearly a quarter of a century on, Fitzcarraldo is still very impressive stuff.
	www.subzeroblue.com /store/B00001ODHV/Fitzcarraldo.html (821 words)

	Filmspotting: Filmspotting #109: Fitzcarraldo / Top 5 Performances of the Year So Far, Film, Podcast, Movies, Reviews, ...
		A decade after the two teamed up for "Aguirre: The Wrath of God," Kinski is again cast as a river-bound madman looking for glory in the rain forest.
		"Fitzcarraldo" is a more mature film than Herzog's previous Amazonian adventure -- fewer digressions, a more compelling story, stronger characters -- but the power of the film is largely due to the central conceit: Fitzcarraldo's plan to haul a 300-ton steamship over a mountain.
		The fact that Herzog risked the lives of his cast and crew to actually pull off this dubious achievement in engineering only adds to the movies allure.
	www.filmspotting.net /2006/06/filmspotting-109-fitzcarraldo-top-5.html (464 words)

	Fitzcarraldo - Moviefone
		When Herzog tackled Fitzcarraldo, the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus...
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	movies.aol.com /movie/fitzcarraldo/6696/main (164 words)

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