a review of

first saw this over a decade ago when i was a TA for first year art students and the instructor had them watch this. i had one kanopy credit left for march. i really love it as a film about film and it's kind of meta that way. it's about Herzog eating his shoe to motivate errol morris, and Herzog is dead serious and is true to his word. according to the criterion interview i just watched with errol morris, he claims that the original wager probably didn't actually happen, but maybe it happened in kind of a truthy way. either way, you can't get better promo for your first film