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My Best Fiend (1999)

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My Best Fiend

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Featured in

    • "Siskel & Ebert" American Beauty/Blue Streak/For Love of the Game (TV Episode 1999)

      A clip is shown during a segment on the Telluride Film Festival.
    • Incident at Loch Ness (2004)

      Scenes shown
    • Dreams and Burdens (Short 2005)

      Clips featured.
    • Eu Eu Eu José Lewgoy (2011)

      archive footage
    • "Tvennesnack" Jag skyller på Tyskarna (TV Episode 2023)

      Mentioned and shown clip from.

Features

    • Sons, Mothers and a General (1955)

    • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

    • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

    • Woyzeck (1979)

    • Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Referenced in

    • Popcorn Taxi Q&A with Wim Wenders (Video 2008)

      Mentioned. Discussion. As 'My Best Fiend'.
    • Orson Welles's the Other Side of the Wind: A Film by Orson Welles (Short 2011)

      Quoted numerous times.
    • "Harmontown" Fluid Levitation (Podcast Episode 2014)

      Discussed.
    • "Harmontown" Live from the Magic City Comic-Con (Podcast Episode 2016)

      Mentioned.
    • My Dinner with Werner (Short 2019)

      The "Werner" character recounts the story of threatening to shoot Klaus Kinski 8 times, as Werner Herzog first recounted in "My Best Fiend".

References

    • Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

      Klaus Kinski mentions this film during his one-man Jesus show ("I am not the official Jesus... I am not your 'Superstar'").
    • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

      Referenced in dialogue.
    • Fitzcarraldo (1982)

      Referenced in dialogue.
    • Burden of Dreams (1982)

      Referenced in dialogue.
    • Cobra Verde (1987)

      Referenced in dialogue.

Spoofed in

    • Herzog: The Wrath of Klaus (2012)

      The idea of Klaus Kinski and Wener Herzog sharing a flat was first expressed in that film.
    • Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

      One of Earl and Greg's movies ("My Best Actor is Also a Dangerous Lunatic")

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