Criterion Reflections – Episode 59 – Werner Herzog’s Fata Morgana

David is joined by first-time guest David Seeley to talk about this early documentary/essay/adventure-based travelogue by Werner Herzog, now streaming on The Criterion Channel.

Criterion Reflections is David Blakeslee’s ongoing project to watch all of the films included in the Criterion Collection in chronological order of their original release. Each episode of this third season of the podcast features conversations with a variety of guests offering insights on movies that originally premiered in 1971 and were destined to eventually bear the Criterion imprint. In this episode, David is joined by David Seeley to discuss Fata Morgana, directed by Werner Herzog.

The Criterion Channel
Werner Herzog Film (official)
Wikipedia
IndieWire
Nonfics (ranking of Herzog’s documentary films)
Roger Ebert
Rolling Stone
Taste of Cinema

Fata Morgana

The Criterion Channel
Wikipedia
New York Times (1971)
Shout Factory TV
2,500 Movies Challenge
The Celluloid Highway
Cinepassion
The Defeatist Completist
Dennis Grunes
Every ’70s Movie
Film Fanatic
The Film Sufi
Fx Reflects
Preining
Research Gate
Ghettoraga

Criterion Reflections blog (1922 – 1967)
Criterion Reflections columns on CriterionCast (1968)
The Eclipse Viewer
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series

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