����������� Alan Greenberg first showed up at Herzog's Munich home at age twenty-four. At the end of their evening together Herzog urged Greenberg to work with him on his film Heart of Glass��nd everything thereafter. He clinched his plea by assuring the young American that ��n the outside we'll look like gangsters, while on the inside we'll wear the gowns of priests.��/p>
����������� What Greenberg didn't know at the time was how unusual Herzog's filmmaking methods could be. In Heart of Glass, Herzog exercised control over his actors in a unique way: he hypnotized them before shooting their scenes. The result was one of the most haunting movies ever made.
����������� Not since Lillian Ross's classic 1950 book Picture, about John Huston directing The Red Badge of Courage, has an American�writer given such a close, firsthand, book-length account of how a director makes a movie. But Every Night the Trees Disappear is not a conventional, journalistic account; instead it presents a unique vision with the feel of a novel��ntimate, penetrating, and filled with mystery.
