Encounters at the End of the World
by Werner Herzog
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Actor: David Ainley, Kevin Emery, Regina Eisert, Ryan Andrew Evans, Samuel S. BowserDirector: Werner Herzog
Brand: Unknown
Writer: Werner Herzog
Producer: Andrea Meditch
Producer: Dave Harding
Producer: Erik Nelson
Producer: Henry Kaiser
Producer: Julian Hobbs
Producer: Phil Fairclough
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-18
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product features:
- In the most hostile, barren, alien environment on the planet - you meet the most interesting people. Welcome to Antarctica - like you've never experienced it. You've seen the extraordinary marine life, the retreating glaciers and, of course, the penguins, but leave it to award-winning, iconoclastic filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) to be the first to explore the South P
DVD Reviews of Encounters at the End of the World
DVD Review: Like another planet
Summary: 5 Stars
Admittedly, this film meanders around the ugliness on the surface, but then submerges in to the jaw-dropping strangeness and beauty that is the Antarctic undersea ecology. I thought it worth the trudge through the mundane to get to the sublime.DVD Review: Glimpse at the People of Antarctica
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a terrific, quirky documentary of the kind that Herzog is known for. And like all his films, it tells you as much about his about any of his subjects. (See Grizzly Man for a perfect example of a fill all about Herzog seeing himself in someone else). While the footage of Antarctica itself is beautiful and interesting, what real focus of this film is the types of people who are drawn to this isolated environment, a group of self-described outcasts from the rest of the world. There's something not just about this place that brings them here, but about these people themselves. And it's absolutely fascinating to watch. You can tell in every frame that Herzog sees himself in these people as well.
If you enjoy this film and want to explore Antarctica more, check out Ice People. Just as spellbinding and interesting, but with a little more focus on science. I can't see anyone disappointed in a double feature of these two films for a real complete view of the continent few of us will ever be lucky enough to see in person.
DVD Review: ALSO BUY - PLANET EARTH - from David Attenborough
Summary: 5 Stars
Awsum documentary, these mysterious creatures of gods are mind zazzling, i suggest anyone who likes this that they will be amazed to buy PLANET EARTH from David Attenborough, it might be sold in a box pack, the whole pack is mind tantalizing, but i am only up to the last cd of the planet earth volume and the thing to watch is the last dvd in that volume, i am speachless regarding sharing anymore info, regarding both this dvd and the one i recomendedDVD Review: Beautiful Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed watching all the beautiful shots captured in this captivating documentary. It's an excellent film about Antarctica. If you want to see more scientific research and exploration of Antarctica I also recommend watching the film Ice People.DVD Review: Rambling but entertaining documentary from Herzog
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
This is by no means Herzog's best film--it jumps around a lot and sometimes focuses on characters who really aren't terribly interesting--but along with a great score it has enough entertaining moments, inspired photography, and memorable scenes to make it worth watching.
3/4
Description of Encounters at the End of the World
Genre: Documentary
Rating: G
Release Date: 18-NOV-2008
Media Type: DVD
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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