Herzog Eats His Shoe
Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping Khaki - Unstructured Hat Buckled Closer - 100% Bio-washed Chino Twill “I’m quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to filmmaking.” - Werner Herzog More shoes! More boots! More garlic!In the late 70s, Werner Herzog got so pissed off with kindred spirit Errol Morris not completing a film project that he made a bet: if Morris finished ‘Gates of Heaven’ and got it shown on the big screen, Herzog would … well, the clue’s in the title. Thus it was that Herzog ate his shoe in front of a live audience at a screening of Morris’s film at the UC Theatre while Les Blank turned up to make a documentary about it. The nexus of eccentric talent distilled into the twenty minutes of ‘Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe’ would be astounding even if the film was in any way conventional. Which it isn’t. ‘Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe’ is bonkers on many levels, beginning with its title. The film opens with Herzog disembarking from a plane an