Happy Thursday, everyone! Sorry that this is a placeholder for the moment, but it's been a really insane week here at Casa De Finn as well as getting ready for a trip to visit my ailing mother, so I'm giving you a placeholder recommendation.
Fitzcarraldo (1982) came up for me recently because I got up to that year in my Decades Project (every year, I look at Letterboxd and try to watch the highest rated movie there from 100, 90 and so on years ago). So I just caught up with this Werner Herzog insanity and hoo boy, this is a movie everyone absolutely needs to see. The story of a man determined to build an opera house deep in the Amazon, financing it by taking over a space of land for a rubber plantation, this is a perfect example of a crazy stab in the dark made by madmen who could barely stand each other (Klaus Kinski and Wener Herzog famously got along like a match in a fireworks factory, to the point where the actors playing the local nations in the Amazon quietly asked Herzog if they could take care of Kinski after the shoot), making a movie about a madmen doing anything for his obsession. It's with ads on Vudu, Roku Channel and Tubi and it's on Kanopy if your library system has it as well as a whole raft of other services with ads (Shout! Factory was one that surprised me. Please take a couple of hours and check this out.
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