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Werner Herzog (written by)
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17 October 2008 (Spain)
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Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 3 nominations
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Werner Herzog: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 17 November 2009, 10:22 PM, PST)
October A.M.P.A.S. Events In Los Angeles
(From CinemaRetro. 30 September 2009, 8:48 PM, PDT)
(From The Hollywood Interview. 17 November 2009, 10:22 PM, PST)
October A.M.P.A.S. Events In Los Angeles
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Psychotic Penguins And Other Stories
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Cast
(Credited cast) | David Ainley | ... | Marine Ecologist |
| Samuel S. Bowser | ... | Cell Biologist |
| Regina Eisert | ... | Physiologist |
| Kevin Emery | ... | McMurdo Station Survival School Instructor |
| Ryan Andrew Evans | ... | McMurdo Station Cook |
| Ashrita Furman | ... | Multiple World Record Holder |
| Peter Gorham | ... | Physicist - University of Hawaii |
 | Werner Herzog | ... | Narrator |
| William Jirsa | ... | McMurdo Station Linguist - Computer Expert |
| Karen Joyce | ... | Computer Expert |
| Doug MacAyeal | ... | McMurdo Station Glaciologist (as Douglas MacAyeal) |
| William McIntosh | ... | Volcanologist - Geochronologist |
| Olav T. Oftedal | ... | Nutritional Ecologist |
| Clive Oppenheimer | ... | Volcanologist |
| David R. Pacheco Jr. | ... | McMurdo Journeyman Plumber |
| Stefan Pashov | ... | McMurdo Station Forklift Driver |
| Jan Pawlowski | ... | Zoologist |
| Scott Rowland | ... | McMurdo Station Transportation Dept |
| Libor Zicha | ... | McMurdo Station Utility Mechanic |
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Features "The Lone Ranger" (1949)
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Werner Herzog makes Anartica, strange, magical, hypnotic, and relevant, mostly without the use of penguins(who are apparently at turns insane and suicidal prostitutes and swingers).
Some of the images were very familiar to his earlier "Wild Blue Yonder", but the narrative, holds together much stronger here.
Eccentric scientists, and travelers from all over the world, discussing the foundations of evolution, the invisible energies that permeate the cosmos, the constant shift of water and energy just beneath the surface of the ice, they also play guitar and wander around with boxes on their heads.
It's not so much a documentary about "Antartica", the geographical location, but about Antartica as an idea, an image, the people who go there, and why, a little of everything or anything that's is interesting. Though Herzog in voice over gives us a few pet peeves, and doesn't mind talking about not liking a person or place, just as much as finding one interesting, it can get a bit distracting, even annoying...but mostly it's kinda funny, and can break up some of the slower moments.
My favorite Herzog quote is "Documentaries are as close to truth as glaciers are to farting", here, staged as it may or may not be, you can still smell the ice, and it's stinks brilliantly.