Francis Ford Coppola will give the laudatio honoring Werner Herzog on the Venice Movie Pageant on Wednesday night time, when Herzog will obtain the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
The Godfather and Appocalypse Now director will honor the enduring German filmmaker, director of Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, and Aguirre, the Wrath of God on August 27 at Venice’s Sala Grande through the Opening Ceremony of the 82nd Venice competition. Herzog will probably be honored for his life’s work. On Thursday, Herzog will current his newest documentary, Ghost Elephants, out of competitors in Venice and can maintain a masterclass.
Saying the award for Herzog, Venice movie competition director Alberto Barbera mentioned the New German Cinema pioneer “has by no means ceased from testing the bounds of movie language, belying the standard distinction between documentary and fiction. A superb narrator of bizarre tales, Herzog can be the final inheritor of the nice custom of German romanticism, a visionary humanist, and a tireless explorer.”
Coppola will even be in focus in Venice this yr, with the screening of Mike Figgas’ Megadoc, screening within the Venice Classics – Documentaries About Cinema part, on Thursday. The movie is a behind-the-scenes take a look at the making of Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-the-making epic.
Coppola recieved a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on the forty ninth Venice movie competition in 1992.