Film Retrospective
Coolidge Award for Werner Herzog

Thu, 02/08/2018 -
Wed, 03/14/2018
Coolidge Corner Theatre

The Coolidge Award, launched in 2004, recognizes a selected film artist whose work represents original and outstanding contributions to cinema. The German director Werner Herzog is this year’s recipient and will be honored on February 8th with a film screening (Into the Inferno) and a discussion. A repertory series showcasing some of his most distinctive works will follow.

From the Coolidge Award Tribute to Werner Herzog:
“Werner Herzog is widely known for his prolific and daring body of cinematic work, including both narrative and documentary masterpieces. He began his film career in the early 1960s and quickly established himself as a powerhouse within the evolving New German Cinema movement of the 1970s. Over the next several decades Herzog would challenge and inspire movie-going audiences with his stunning excessive realism, eccentric and deeply intense protagonists, and poignant visions of anti-conformity. Hailed by critics and colleagues alike, Francois Truffaut famously cited Herzog as “the most important film director alive.” He has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature and documentary films comprising such world-cinema classics as Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kasper Hauser: Every Man For Himself and God Against All (1974), Nosferatu (1978), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs To Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Grizzly Man (2005), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). In addition to his dynamic directorial career, Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas.”
Coolidge Award Events
Into the Inferno featuring post-screening Q&A with Werner Herzog
Thursday, February 8 at 1pm
An Evening with Werner Herzog
Thursday, February 8 at 8pm
An in-depth discussion of his career, moderated by his friend and collaborator, Boston University classics professor Herbert Golder.

Herzog Repertory Screenings
My Best Fiend
Saturday, February 10, 11:59pm
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Wednesday, February 21, 7:00pm
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Saturday, February 24, 11:59pm
Grizzly Man
Tuesday, Februar 27, 7:00 pm
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Wednesday, February 28, 7:00pm
Fitzcarraldo
Wednesday, March 7, 7:00pm
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Wednesday, March 14, 7:00pm