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  • Werner Herzog’s pilgrimage to Paris

    Werner Herzog’s pilgrimage to Paris

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    Andrew Green
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    Many think Werner Herzog our greatest living film-maker.  His major fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s will always find new viewers.  Aguirre, Wrath of God, a study in conspiracy, tyranny and madness, has a claim to be one of the most powerful ever made.  Once you’ve seen it the first time, with its dense…

  • Walking to meet heroes

    Walking to meet heroes

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    Andrew Green
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    In October 1705 Johann Sebastian Bach set out on foot on a journey of 260 miles.  He was twenty years old.  He’d recently been in a brawl with a musician he’d insulted in the market place of his home town of Arnstadt in Thuringia, central Germany.  The church authorities who employed him as organist in…