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Encounters at the End of the World

Encounters at the End of the World

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.

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Winner of last years Palme d'Or this Romanian film set in the eighties and is a cross between Richard Linklater's 2001 film 'Tape', in that the majority of the action takes place in one room between three central characters and Mike Leigh's 2004 film 'Vera Drake' in that its central theme is illegal abortion. It is a film about the human condition, trust, betrayal, the extremes people have to go to sometimes and the consequences that follow certain actions. It has two great performances from the college roommates Otilia and Gabita from their introduction to us as they make plans for a trip through to the grizzly outcome that concludes the film. The setting is grim and the bleached out film stock adds to the jittery camera work and gives an uneasy feeling throughout, instantly you are transported to a time where people barter with tic tacs, cigarettes and powdered milk and the promise of sugar is a dream to many and a reality to only a few. Gabita's predicament and subsequent journey both physically and mentally are what drives the film but its shown mainly through the eyes of her friend and roommate Otilia who as well as making and carrying out the arrangements has to make some startling sacrifices and ones that she will have memory of forever, as will you the audience long after the film has finished. Although not an easy watch and considering the subject matter not something you can say you 'enjoyed' it is none the less a brilliant piece of film-making, subtle and emotive with very real character studies. A brutal in your face look at a bleak time in history, how a leader destroyed the economy of a country and what that did to everyday life and a reminder of how far behind the rest of us Eastern Europe was before the fall of the Iron curtain.

My Winnipeg

My Winnipeg

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April 4th, 2008

Mom's Birthday! Jam out...

• Ghostland Observatory
  Piano Man
• Del Tha Funky Homosapien
  Mistadobalina
• Sera Cahoone
  Only As the Day Is Long

Middle Eastern Grooves

I want more of these:


Hisham Abbas, Intil Waheeda

Listening to KEXP on 3/17....luck of the evonish

-VERIFY: The Muffs Not Like Me??? Rocking, slightly metal, JAMS!!! Roar!!!
-Pixes Wave of Mutilation B side UK version! Sigh! First sense of the power of being a woman, of writhing around in undies, of a deep voice reaching out in the night, of the seductiveness of music...
-Cat Power - Metal Heart, angsty awesome
-DeVotchKa, Transliterator - interesting!!!!
-Thao & The Get Down, Stay Down, Bag Of Hammers, folksy-bluegrass alternative sound, would be fun live...
-The Raveonettes, Blush - very soft, maybe I would like other stuff?
-Pigeon Detectives, I'm Not Sorry - fun for a mix theme
-Anthony Hamilton not on KEXP but this is IT, soundtrack for life
-RJD2, The Horror-- Reminds me of the avalanches
-The Kills, Cheap And Cheerful, provokes Seat Dancing and head bobbing, be warned!
-Hot Chip, Out At The Pictures - we already knew that Hot Chip was hot and danceable....shake it!!!
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Paperback Business Best Sellers - New York Times

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