My Best Fiend -- Klaus Kinski is Herzog's fascinating, rambling, love-hate documentary about their friendship and creative partnership, and in its discursive, anecdotal way it gets at the essence of one of cinema's indelible crackpots. We see clips of Kinski throwing tantrums on the set of ''Aguirre, the Wrath of God'' and ''Fitzcarraldo'' and performing on stage in a one-man rant-athon billed as the Jesus Tour.
He's gripping as only a meticulously rehearsed monomaniac can be, yet when ''My Best Fiend'' offers scenes from the movies themselves, especially the mesmeric ''Aguirre,'' it's impossible not to be moved by the oddball purity of what Kinski and Herzog, high on their lust for extremes, achieved. For Kinski, life was no cabaret -- it was a shock corridor waiting to be filmed.
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