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[...] he once walked from Munich to Paris because he thought doing so would save the life of Lotte Eisner, the German film historian and critic, who was ill at the time. Herzog completed that journey, Eisner lived another nine years, and Herzog published a diary of his cross-continent trek, called …

Coppola’s restraint, her lack of concern for character development or backstory or psychology — her good qualities as a film director — frustrate critics. Winning Best Director at Cannes for The Beguiled somehow only added to her image as a dilettante. As something of a Hollywood deserter, with eac…