Burden of Dreams [Special Edition] [Criterion Collection]

"Thanks to the current DVD boom, nearly every second-rate exercise in genre hackwork that opens in more than ten theaters merits a documentary on how the movie was made. But in 1982, Les Blank's Burden of Dreams was unusual not only as a feature film that chronicled the making of another feature film, but in the way it dealt with how an artist can be both driven and enslaved by his obsessions as it told a tale very much like that of the film it documented, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo...and argu…