Though here it tends to come off far more one-sided, save the opening transcript of a workshop held at the Facets Multimedia Center in Chicago in 1979 hosted by Ebert and featured Herzog and a handful of later interviews, there still comes through in their dialogue a meeting of like-minded, thoughtful individuals with a great love for the cinema and exploring the extremes of human creativity. Between the two it becomes clear that there was an unremarked upon but nonetheless present mutual respect and admiration. While Herzog continues to follow his own singular artistic vision, the world has since lost the wit and wisdom of Ebert, arguably the last of the truly great film critics and custodians of the sacred medium. Both Roger Ebert and Werner Herzog are such idiosyncratically iconoclastic giants in their respective fields that it’s very likely the world will never see an adequate replacement for each.
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