Alan Greenberg is a writer, film director, film producer, and photographer. His film Land of Look Behind won the Gold Hugo Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. He is also the author of Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnsonamong others. Werner Herzog is considered one of the world's greatest filmmakers. His films include Aguirre, the Wrath of God; The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser; Grizzly Man; Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; Cave of Forgotten Dreams; and Into the AbyssHis books include Conquest of the Useless and Of Walking in Ice.
"Alan Greenberg's great and poetic writing here captures the thick,
dark dream mood of Werner Herzog's Heart of Glass . He magically
depicts Werner's deep obsessions, total commitment, and creativity.
He shows the way Werner goes about his work using both his mind and
hands. This way is rare and spectacular. Alan Greenberg proves
beautifully in this book that there will never again be a filmmaker
even remotely like Werner Herzog." --David Lynch, director
"You know from seeing it that Herzog was up to something strange in
filming Heart of Glass . Now the mystery is clarified. Alan
Greenberg peers into the heart of darkness of the great artist."
--Roger Ebert
"Alan Greenberg's book, which plunges you far into the unstable
depths of the creative process, is delirious, madcap, beautifully
observed and rendered, and genuinely exhilarating." --Luc Sante,
author of Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005
"Alan Greenberg's mesmerizing account of the creation and
realization of Werner Herzog's Heart of Glass (during the filming
of which the actors were under hypnosis) is truly unusual--and as
poetic and mysterious as the film itself." --Jim Jarmusch,
director
"Alan Greenberg was there when Werner Herzog shot the legendary
film Heart of Glass , and it is this acute witness that informs one
of the best books about the art of cinema ever published."
--Stephen Davis, author of Hammer of the Gods and Jim Morrison
"Herzog's philosophy of filmmaking as a combination of physical
ordeal, trust in the mystical and instinctive, and financial and
emotional risk... makes for some great movies - and in the case of
Every Night the Trees Disappear , for great writing about movies."
-- American Cinematographer
"Remarkable." -- Austin Chronicle
"It is one of those rare books that you honestly can't put down . .
. I recommend this book highly to all fans of Werner Herzog."
--Media Mikes
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