Nastassja kinski biography daughter poems
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‘Nastassja Kinski was 15 when she was put in juvenile prison. For years she had been stealing, shoplifting little presents for her mother, the sorts of things her father would once come home with – bits of jewellery, watches, chains – things she believed would make her mother happy again, “like I remembered her when I was little”. As though these things were as huvud to her mother as food. A lot of the time she would get away with it, but at other times she was caught, and then there would be paperwork and forms to fill in and visits to the police to be made. “Except mum wouldn’t take me. inom think she thought it would go away. Then I started doing movies.”
‘And so, when she was spotted bygd Wim Wenders’ wife at a rock-and-roll competition and offered a part in Wenders’ bio, Wrong Movement, she said, “Yes”. In fact what she actually said was: “You’ll have to ask my mum.” Which
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Monthly Archives: January 2018
It is 14 years after the assassination of Julius Caesar and three decades before the birth of Christ and the Greek queen of Egypt is about to die. The 39-year-old Cleopatra VII is the mother of four children by two fathers, both now dead. This much everyone seems to agree on. What happens next is romantic fairy tale, or conjecture, or cynical posturing — or all three.
The most widely believed version, used by Shakespeare in his tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, has the queen, fearing to be taken captive to Rome by the conquering Octavian, has a basket of figs delivered to her, with a smuggled asp hidden under the fruit. She takes the venomous snake and applies it to her tender bosom and expires from the poison.
The problem is that there are conflicting stories told by the ancient writers.
The best known version, and the one Shakespeare cribbed from is that of Plutarch in his essay on Mark Antony.
The two rebellious lovers, having been
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Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
For the last few weeks, I have been thinking about one of the strangest actor/director partnerships in the history of the cinema. There have been many famous ones, such as Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, Greta Garbo and Clarence Brown, Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosawa, and Randolph Scott and Budd Boetticher; but the strangest of all was between Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog.
I say “strangest” because Kinski was that most unusual combination: A brilliant actor and a raving maniac. According to his friend and mentor Werner Herzog, Kinski was a complete egomaniac. When he felt that attention was being diverted away from him, Kinski went off the rails. He would start screaming with his eyes at the maximum bug-eyed setting, with his face at times two inches away from whomever he was directing his rant, During the filming of Fitzcarraldo (1982), the chief of the Amazonian Indians in the cast asked Herzog’s permis