BURDEN OF DREAMS w/ Intro by Jim Browne (Argot Pictures)!
Sat, Sep 21
|Epsilon Spires
Experience the new 4k restoration of Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams, capturing legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious project Fitzcarraldo, in which a rubber baron (Klaus Kinski) endeavors to push a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle.
Time & Location
Sep 21, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982/2024, 95 min. Directed by Les Blank with Maureen Gosling English, Spanish & German with English subtitles). New 4K restoration! YOUR GENERAL ADMISSION TICKET INCLUDES FREE ENTRY TO OUR SCREENING OF FITZCARRALDO, 8pm, Sunday, September 22nd.
SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY JIM BROWNE OF ARGOT PICTURES!
Jim Browne has been exhibiting, programming, producing, and distributing independent films for 30 years. He founded Argot Pictures in 2005, a distribution company specializing in theatrical releases for documentaries. He’s also a former film festival programmer (Tribeca Film Festival, Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival).
Burden of Dreams captures the spirit of extreme filmmaking by focusing it's lens on legendary director Werner Herzog’s filming of his most ambitious film Fitzcarraldo. For nearly five years, Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most difficult films of his career, Fitzcarraldo, the meta-story of one man’s attempt to build an opera house deep…