Shots From the Canon #14: ‘Lessons of Darkness’ (Werner Herzog, 1992)

Every week or so, filmmaker and writer Robert Greene will attempt to push for a new canon of cinematic nonfiction.

Before Grizzly Man gave him a legitimate documentary hit, before his own voice became iconic to the point of (near) self-parody and before his “ecstatic truth” construct became a ubiquitous and useful entry point for cineastes of all stripes…