Francis Ford Coppola honored Werner Herzog at the Venice Film Festival opening ceremony on Wednesday night, calling the filmmaker an “unlimited phenomenon working in every nook and corner in cinema” while presenting him the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The event marked Coppola’s first public appearance since undergoing a heart procedure in Rome earlier in the month.
“I come here to praise Werner Herzog, and it’s not enough to praise Werner Herzog,” Coppola began. “One must celebrate the fact that someone like he can actually exist.” Citing the New German Cinema pioneer’s films like “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo,” Coppola called Herzog’s works “all unique and very
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