A fascinating portrait of a filmmaker pushed to the outer edge of sanity...
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10/26/07
Burden of Dreams (1982)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:13
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: An extraordinary journey into the mind and passions of director Werner Herzog during the filming of "Fitzcarraldo." Director Les Blank, with Maureen Gosling, has successfully captured on film the... [More]
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07/29/02
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05/24/03
The film is at once funny and, in its depiction of the scant differences between art and megalomania, somewhat frightening.
01/01/00
Top CriticLes Blank's Burden of Dreams is one of the most remarkable documentaries ever made about the making of a movie.
10/23/04
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05/24/08
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06/30/05
Strangely, Burden of Dreams is a better film than Fitzcarraldo, if only because you get to see the fictional portions of the film along with the backstory
05/24/05
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02/20/04
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03/19/04
It’s Fitzcarraldo with affirmed and not sublime biography; in essence, the same film without the pretense of fiction.
12/21/04
not only captures the dramatic moments where Herzog risks life and limb ... , but he includes small details that provide necessary natural respites from Herzog's 'madness'
09/24/05
Remarkably candid behind-the-scenes documentary.
08/17/08
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06/24/06
A searing voyeur's peek at two of cinema's most audacious talents -- and megalomaniacs.
11/08/04
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