Werner Herzog's Antarctica

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:12 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

>  there is a wonderful Werner Herzog documentary on Antarctica called
> Encounters at the End of the World which features some very smart and
> zany physicists, philosophers, volcanists, linguists and of course
> Werner's doom-laden narration
>
> http://encountersfilm.com/
>
> good stuff.

Usually, the local univetrsity theater opens each semester's season
with a buncha Hollywood, or at last popular, or at least cult films.
This past January, on the coldest weekend of the year here, it
ventured instead three nights of the Herzog documentary.  It was
packed all three nights, and I oughtta know, 'cos I went all three
nights ...

Next semester, they one-up that with Lars von Trier's Antichrist ...