Werner Herzog Coming to Blu-ray

If you're a fan of director Werner Herzog, there's good news and there's bad news....

The good new is you'll soon be able to purchase your choice of two Herzog Blu-ray box sets. One comes from Shout Factory and includes 16 Herzog films:

Even Dwarfs Started Small Land of Silence and Darkness Fata Morgana Aguirre, the Wrath of God The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Heart of Glass Stroszek Woyzeck Nosferatu the Vampyre Fitzcarraldo Ballad of the Little Soldier Where the Green Ants Dream Cobra Verde Lessons of Darkness Little Dieter Needs to Fly My Best Fiend

The price is right: $160 which (do the math, now...) comes to ten bucks a film. The bad news? This set is limited to 5,000 copies. The set goes on sale July 29, but you can preorder it now on Amazon.
 

The UK's BFI has also announced a set available late spring/early summer including 18 films, which the following to the Shout Factory list:

The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz 

Last Words

Precautions Against Fanatics 

Handicapped Future

The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

Huie's Sermon

God's Angry Man

Yet these films from the Shout Factory release are NOT present in the BFI edition:

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Ballad of the Little Soldier

Where the Green Ants Dream

Lessons of Darkness

Little Dieter Needs to Fly

My Best Fiend

Maybe you'll want to get both? I have no idea of the price of the BFI edition or whether or not they are region-free. 

I haven't seen enough Herzog to know whether I want to purchase either of them, but I plan to hit up the library and Netflix heavily the next couple of months to see if these sets are worth having. I have a sneaking suspicion that they are....