Encounters at the End of the World
Encounters at the End of the World

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'Werner Herzog' takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions. A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researcher's nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to survive white-out conditions by wearing cartoon-face buckets over their heads. A... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Encounters at the End of the World:

Werner Herzog
Clive Oppenheimer
Scott Rowland
Stefan Pashov
Doug MacAyeal
Ryan Andrew Evans

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'Werner Herzog' takes his camera to Antarctica where we meet the odd men and women who have dedicated their lives to furthering the cause of science in treacherous conditions. A scientist studies neutrinos, which are everywhere, yet elusive; he likens them to spirits. A researcher's nighttime performance art includes contorting her body into a luggage bag. A survival guide teaches his students to survive white-out conditions by wearing cartoon-face buckets over their heads. Animal researchers milk mother seals as part of their study. Volcanologists offer advice on what to do when a volcano erupts. A pipefitter shows us the anomaly in his hands that he says are a sign he descended from Atzec royalty. A former Colorado banker drives what he has christened Ivan the Terra Bus. An underwater diver shows his colleagues DVDs of apocalyptic sci-fi films like Them! (1954). And -- though Herzog declares he's not "making another film about penguins" -- we meet a penguin researcher who answers the filmmaker's questions about homosexuality and insanity in his subjects. We also meet an individualist penguin, who breaks away from the other birds to run toward the mountains, facing certain death.

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Cinema Scope - 10/10 by Jerry WhiteSome TV viewers may tune in expecting more penguins; what they get instead is a portrait of people in search of the sublime.
Times (UK) - 10/10 by Dominic WellsAs a nature doc alone, Encounters at the End of the World would stand as one of the year's best. But it is the people who choose to live and work at the very ends of the Earth that are Herzog's real subject.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertA poem of oddness and beauty. Herzog is like no other filmmaker, and to return to him is to be welcomed into a world vastly larger and more peculiar than the one around us. The underwater photography alone would make a film, but there is so much more.
Metro (UK) - 10/10 by Larushka Ivan-ZadehWondrous, wow-inducing marvels - seal calls that sound weirdly like Pink Floyd; rare glimpses into the eerily alien underwater universe of exquisite ice cathedrals - uplift the soul as Herzog explores his pet obsessions.
eFilmCritic.com - 10/10 by Peter SobczynskiA mesmerizing new documentary that contains some of the most stunning, unlikely and unforgettable moments that Herzog has ever given us and by definition, that means that they are some of the most stunning, unlikely and unforgettable moments ever seen.
New York Press - 9/10 by Armond WhiteAfter the brilliantly original The White Diamond and The Wild Blue Yonder presented unusual professions and exotic outposts where individuals leave conventional society to express their aberrant instincts, the intrepid Herzog has finally hit a rut.
Entertainment Weekly - 9/10 by Owen GleibermanThe stunning images aren't enough for Herzog, though. He wants us to see how these quirky researchers, in their lust to explore, are acting out a drive as primitive as nature: the need to break away from the world in order to find it.
Combustible Celluloid - 9/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonThe best thing about Herzog's films is that he follows his instincts and lets his curiosity lead him to the next sequence.
KPBS.org - 9/10 by Beth AccomandoSo the earnest seriousness that can make Herzog almost comical at times it is also the quality that allows him to paint a sincere portrait of these eccentric souls without a hint of mockery.
Los Angeles Daily News - 9/10 by Bob StraussIf you just have to see another Antarctica documentary, you could do worse than Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World.

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