#250 - Conquest of the Useless
The classic documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982) c…
Michael and Us · Luke Savage and Will Sloan
July 9, 202149m 54sExplicit
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Show Notes
The classic documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS (1982) captures director Werner Herzog as he's mounting the most ambitious feat of his career: attempting to haul a literal steamship over a literal mountain for his film Fitzcarraldo. We discuss how this legendary saga of directorial megalomania in a world where directorial megalomania has gone out of fashion. PLUS: the complicated reasons why there are no nice things in American politics.