LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS: FILM-MAKER WERNER HERZOG AND THE DEAF-BLIND

REMBRANDT'S ANNA AND BLIND TOBIT. REVIEW OF WERNER HERZOG'S DOCUMENTARY LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS ABOUT THOSE BORN BLIND AND DEAF

Werner Herzog is the German film-maker whose notion of “ecstatic truth” has brought him, among other places, to the Peruvian rainforest (Aguirre, The Wrath of God), Death Row (Into the Abyss), Antarctica (Encounters at the End of the World), and the Alaskan wilderness (Grizzly Man). But to me his finest film is Land of Silence […]