Resurrecting an 'Inferno' that consumed its director  Inferno: 4
stars  September 23, 2010|By Michael Phillips | Movie critic
Cinema was made for dreamers, yet the burden of those dreams can
become the stuff of train-wreck legend (or stories of train
wrecks, narrowly avoided). "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's
Apocalypse" tells you a great deal about what Francis Coppola,
his wife Eleanor Coppola and others endured in the making of
"Apocalypse Now." "Burden of Dreams" is a diary of the making of
Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo." The inspired craziness of
Herzog's adventure demanded a movie separate from the real
movie.  Those logistically difficult films, in the end, were
finished. Henri-Georges Clouzot's "Inferno," like Josef Von
Sternberg's "I, Claudius" and a handful of other aborted
projects by major directors, was not.  An unlimited Hollywood
budget, startling optical effects, a glamorous international
star in Romy Schneider under duress and in various degrees of
undress: With all that in his corner, how