Fitzcarraldo (1982)

IMDb plot summary: The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

Directed by Werner Herzog. Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, and José Lewgoy.

Fitzcarraldo follows a man who is obsessed with the idea of building a world-class opera house in the middle of Peru, and to make his dream happen, he takes on the near-impossible task of hauling a steamship over the mountains to get to an unexploited source of rubber. I've seen very little by Werner Herzog, and that's something I need to amend, as I definitely liked this one better than Aguirre Wrath of God. It's a slow movie but it really highlights how impossible it feels to pursue thing after thing after thing just to read your one final goal you actually care about. There are long stretches where the slowness gets to me, though, so I feel like it's one of those movies that I best appreciate after watching, not during, and I wonder if some distance from it and some thinking over it will land it higher on my chart.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Fitzcarraldo < Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Fitzcarraldo > Cry-Baby

Fitzcarraldo < Office Space

Fitzcarraldo > Dear Frankie

Fitzcarraldo > No Sudden Move

Fitzcarraldo > 10

Fitzcarraldo < No Highway in the Sky

Fitzcarraldo < For Your Consideration

Fitzcarraldo < John Dies at the End

Fitzcarraldo < Satantango

Fitzcarraldo > Diner

Fitzcarraldo < Eleni

Final spot: #2578 out of 4028, or 36%.