Labor Day isn’t the only reason to roll out the grill and invite your friends over: The one and only Werner Herzog was born on this day in 1942. The intervening decades would establish him as a leader of the New German Cinema, a dramatic visionary, a relentlessly curious documentarian, the paragon of ecstatic truth, and one of modern movies’ most enduringly intriguing filmmakers. Let’s wish Herzog a happy 69th birthday with a run through some of his greatest achievements.
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Happy 69th Birthday, Werner Herzog! What’s His Finest Screen Accomplishment?
