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  • Rashomon is probably one of the greatest movies ever made, easily Kurosawa's best flm

  • it's so cool to see how much Herzog respects Kurosawa- I've heard him bring up Kurosawa before- two of the masters

  • what other director did he mention? didn´t catch the name..

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  • @ golafs... He mentioned Akira Kurosawa's - Rashomon

  • Truth, indeed. He is an inspiration.

  • divine words good sir...

  • I'm still trying to figure out exactly what 'ecstatic truth' means but I'm wondering if we can use the term to justify some of the historical inaccuracies in 'Rescue Dawn'. Some of the liberties, even. Or is 'ecstatic truth' only a term that is applicable to his documentaries?

  • That feeling when you hear your favorite song; view a photo album of a beloved person now dead, when your most beautiful, meaningful experiences return to you and it's like you are together, with them again. "The essential, right [without] detour ... the deepest essential that defines human beings." Just as when epic poems, and bards preserved history and recited from memory thousands of lines; never exactly, factually the same, but still capturing the spirit of the ancestors just as artfully.

  • It's such a loose, ambiguous term then. Allows for a lot of ...well, liberties on historical factuality.

  • The important part of this idea of ecstatic truth is that truth is not the same thing as facts. Herzog has actually said that standard cinema verite documentaries offer superficial truths, the truths of accountants. You can look up Herzog's Minnesota Declaration. One of his best lines:

    "There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization."

  • the director is AKIRA KUROSAWA

  • whats the movie and director he mentions in the clip, i cant make out their names

  • Rashomon, by Akira Kurosawa.

  • please, post Herzog's SPIEL IM SAND (alias GAME IN THE SAND alias GIOCO SULLA SABBIA)!

  • I would, if I had it. But as far as I know, he is the only one who owns a copy of it.

  • Where was this clip taken from? Thanks.

  • Pretty sure that this is from the bonus features from "grizzly man", yes, definitely is, cause richard thompson is present.

  • frenkmelk is right, it's from the special features of Grizzly Man.

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