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Encounters at the End of The World

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Original title: Encounters at the End of The World
Year: 2007
Running time: 99 min.
Country: United States
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenwriter: Werner Herzog
Cast: Documentary
Music: Henry Kaiser, David Lindley
Cinematography: Peter Zeitlinger
Producer: Discovery Films
Genre: Documentary | Cold Weather. Nature. Travel Documentary
Synopsis: Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film.

Awards: 2008: Nominated for Oscar: Best Documentary

2008: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

2008: Satellite Awards: nominated to Motion Picture, Documentary.

2008: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Documentary.

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"Herzog is a stranger in a strange land (...) his perverse curiosity and zest for the harshest extremes of nature transform what might have been a standard TV special into an idiosyncratic expression of wonder."

J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader
"Like many of Mr. Herzog's movies, fiction and nonfiction, 'Encounters at the End of the World' itself has the quality of a dream: it's at once vivid and vague, easy to grasp and somehow beyond reach."

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"All this is as fascinating as it is humbling, even when Herzog ventures a little too far down eccentricity's back alley."

Rick Groen: The Globe and Mail
"Does Antarctica attract dreamers or create them? It's a thread that runs throughout the film."

Ty Burr: Boston Globe
"Takes you places an ordinary documentary filmmaker might’ve gone to yet missed completely."

Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
"The images captured by Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger are dazzling all on their own, finding the disorienting psychedelia that is nature at its weirdest."

Los Angeles Times
"An enjoyable example of this extraordinary director's documentary work."

Walter Addiego: SFGATE

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