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DVD : Encounters at the End of the World
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List Price: $27.98Amazon.com's Price: $19.49 You Save: $8.49 (30%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381506822
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Sales Rank: 1150
MPN: IMEDENC5068D
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Welcome to antarctica - like youve never experienced it. Youve seen the extraordinary marine life the retreating glaciers and of course the penguins but leave it to award winning iconoclastic filmmaker werner herzog to be the first to explore the south poles most fascinating inhabitants..Humans. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 101 minutes Rating: G
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Just about anywhere Werner Herzog goes becomes an interesting place, in part because the director shapes it with his distinctively sardonic eye. In Encounters at the End of the World, the 'Zog heads off to Antarctica, finding there a population of unusual people, hallucinatory underwater life, and penguins. He doesn't appear on camera, but the unmistakably Teutonic Herzog voice is very much with us all the time, a baleful tour guide for this blank destination. In the human outposts of Antarctica, Herzog finds the kind of people you might expect would gravitate to the edge of existence--the curious, the oddball, the wanderers who've run out of other places to explore. He finds some deadpan hilarity, especially in filming a communication drill involving people practicing blizzard conditions (they wear buckets over their heads while roped together). The underwater photography (a realm previously explored in Herzog's The Wild Blue Yonder) is by Henry Kaiser, and it meshes perfectly with the director's interest in alien eye-scapes. And when Herzog finally does find penguins, his imagination goes to the idea that some penguins go insane, scurrying off into their own suicidal directions. This isn't as arresting a film as Grizzly Man, but it is an entertaining travelogue spiked with quirky observations. --Robert Horton
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Although this visit to Antarctica contains stunning sequences of nature-seen-nowhere-else, "Encounters" is more profoundly a documentary about fringe humans drawn to a fringe environment. These are people you won't forget.
Nature somehow survives in this barren, frozen wasteland. Likewise, the international, diverse collective of humans who work & live in Antarctica represents a strain of hardcore humanity & broken idealism that you might be surprised to discover actually exists. ... Read More
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Werner Herzog is one of those unique directors that never give you quite what you expect, but always satisfy. This film, in amazingly clear and crisp "blu-ray" makes you feel as if you are on Antarctica and underwater. In fact, you feel every scene as Hertoz has a talent of pulling you into the picture. There is no dispute that a blu-ray player and a good flat screen television is just about as great an experience that you can achieve nowadays and Herzog takes it to task.
The ... Read More
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There are movies, there are directors, and then there are masterpieces and masterful directors. Encounters is a true masterpiece, especially taken within the body of Herzog's work. This is a documentary first, much like Grizzly Man. Grizzly Man
The film in Antarctica itself is goregous. There is a subtle construction by Herzog that feels at first like a random documentary, but then builds over time to something much more than simply another film about "cute penguins", or planet earth. There is a ... Read More
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Werner Herzog turns his unique and cosmic gaze on Antarctica and the scientists who work there, and gives us a fascinating and totally unexpected glimpse into this strangest of earthly habitats. Herzog's mind is so interesting that I would imagine even his reflections on the municipal phone book would be of interest, but when he gets to Antarctica and begins to explore the eccentric personalities, exotic wildlife, and extreme geological phenomena, you're in for an extraordinary film experience. I enjoyed it ... Read More
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What the current Amazon listing does not explicitly mention is the wealth of DVD EXTRAS that accompany the 100 minute feature in this 2-DVD set.
ABOVE THE ICE
BELOW THE ICE
SEALS & MEN
DIVE LOCKER INTERVIEW
SOUTH POLE EXORCISM
JONATHAN DEMME INTERVIEWS WERNER HERZOG
+ a hidden "Easter Egg" extra: SEAL MEN, an Antarctic Parody of Herzog's GRIZZLY MAN, with weddell seals replacing grizzly bears
all and all this is over 3 hours of EXTRAS!
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381506822
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 101 minutes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Sales Rank: 1150
MPN: IMEDENC5068D
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