'ENCOUNTERS'OF AN ANTARCTIC KIND.Byline: >Bob Strauss If you just have to see another Antarctica documentary, you could do worse than Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World." Cinema's favorite German contrarian certainly does his own thing with the continent's vast stretches of snow and cathedral-like ice caves
The term ice cave refers to any type of natural cave (most commonly lava tubes or limestone caves) that contains significant amounts of perennial (year-round) , not to mention the underwater world Underwater World may refer to:
tr.v. por·trayed, por·tray·ing, por·trays 1. To depict or represent pictorially; make a picture of. 2. To depict or describe in words. 3. To represent dramatically, as on the stage. the scientists and support workers who spend the austral summer at McMurdo Station McMurdo Station is the largest community in Antarctica (capable of supporting up to 1,258 residents[1]) and a science research center operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National Science Foundation. as loony on the level of the guy in his "Grizzly Man," when they're actually quite professional researchers who are mildly eccentric eccentric, in mechanics, device for changing rotary to back-and-forth motion. A disk is mounted off center on a shaft. One flat, open, circular end of a rod fits around the edge of the disk; the other end is usually attached to a block that slides in a slot. if at all. Its tone notwithstanding, "Encounters" imparts a lot of great information from the various biologists, glaciologists, volcanologists and zoologists Herzog interviews. And even though he declares his refusal upfront to make another penguin movie, his camera eventually settles on a flock of the birds. Characteristically, Herzog zeroes in on the craziest one. ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD - Two and one half stars >G >Playing: Nuart, West L.A. |
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