Remarkable that you in fact enjoyed tea with Bruno S. Given how luminous he was on screen, I can only imagine how that effect must have been even more compelling in the flesh. You've reminded me of "Heart of Glass" now, with the inspired idea to shoot film landscapes in a way that recreated Caspar David Friedrich paintings in "real life." Yet another of Herzog's successful immersions into the horrifying beauty of German Romanticism, where the understanding that the goal is impossible is actually the starting point of the quest. I suppose that's relevant to the Cracky cult as well, now.