Trailer

Fitzcarraldo

Runtime
2hrs 38mins
Directed by
Werner Herzog
Featuring
Klaus Kinski,
Claudia Cardinale
Body

★★★★ "Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo is a movie in the great tradition of grandiose cinematic visions. Like Coppola's Apocalypse Now or Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, it is a quest film in which the hero's quest is scarcely more mad than the filmmaker's.” – Roger Ebert

Iquitos is a town isolated in the middle of the jungle in Peru. At the turn of the century, one resident of the small town, “Fitzcarraldo” as the natives call him, has his dream of bringing together Enrico Caruso and Sarah Bernhardt for one great celebration of Grand Opera.

To finance this fantastic dream, Fitzcarraldo decides to exploit a vast area of rubber trees growing beyond the impassable Ucayala Falls. To circumvent this barrier, he literally has his huge steamboat lifted over a mountain from one branch of the river to the other.

With the aid of a tribe of Indians bewitched by the voice of the greatest singer of all time, Enrico Caruso, Fitzcarraldo fights fever, mosquitos and suffocating heat to achieve the impossible....

35mm Print courtesy of Die Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen.

This Week

  • Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards, from director Wim Wenders. 

    Showtimes
  • The new film from Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name), starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist.

    Showtimes
  • The new film from writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), starring Kirsten Dunst.

    Showtimes
  • A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy.

    Showtimes
  • Denis Villeneuve's sequel to his Oscar winning adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal bestseller.

    Showtimes
  • The new film from Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) starring Josh O'Connor (God's Own Country).

    Showtimes
  • New 4K digital restoration of the Jean-Pierre Melville classic. 

    Showtimes
  • A year in the life of a singular family.

    Showtimes
  • The new film from director Ken Loach (I, Daniel Blake, The Wind that Shakes the Barley).

    Showtimes
  • The Dead have waited. The day has come.

    Showtimes
  • The dead shall inherit the Earth.

    Showtimes
  • Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma star in a brand-new production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

    Showtimes
  • His past was kept from him. His search for answers has just begun.

     

    Showtimes
  • From Oscar-nominated director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, comes an adventure-filled adaptation of The Borrowers.

    Showtimes
  • Introduced by film critic and author of Mavericks: Interviews with the World's Iconoclast Filmmakers, Gerald Peary. 

    Showtimes