Could be bias I suppose, but this one has a proven track record in my experience. Not only was it my introduction to Herzog, but I've had very good success getting other people on board with his particular documentarian style.
Rescue Dawn will get them hooked, especially if they're boomers. After that, you can blow their minds that that was the work of one of film history's great documentarians. Show them Lessons of Darkness. Most people have a visceral response to that imagery as it was not covered well when it occurred. You could start to delve into his Kinski era stuff after that, the obsessive narratives. He has more contemporary documentaries that are like watching nature specials to follow.
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spip@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 28d
Grizzly Man
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Could be bias I suppose, but this one has a proven track record in my experience. Not only was it my introduction to Herzog, but I've had very good success getting other people on board with his particular documentarian style.
mbp@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 28d
Fitzcarraldo.
Go big or go home.
ScrollerBall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Followed by the documentary about making it.
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 28d
That episode of the Boondocks
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 27d
That episode of Rick and Morty.
rauls5@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 28d
My best fiend. No contest.
mbp@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 28d
If you hate that, you'll hate all of his works tbh.
I go with this one on second thought.
Adverse_Reaction@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 27d
Even Dwarfs Started Small
passenger@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 27d
This is the last one they should see. For real cinema fans only
Bonus@piefed.social · 3 pts · 28d
Rescue Dawn will get them hooked, especially if they're boomers. After that, you can blow their minds that that was the work of one of film history's great documentarians. Show them Lessons of Darkness. Most people have a visceral response to that imagery as it was not covered well when it occurred. You could start to delve into his Kinski era stuff after that, the obsessive narratives. He has more contemporary documentaries that are like watching nature specials to follow.
passenger@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 27d
Nosferatu, Phantom der Nacht
Or Fitzcarraldo or Aguirre...
So hard to choose!
I would show the old Kinski fiction movies first...