Landmark Lumiere Theatre
1572 California St
415.267.4893
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Production still from Encounters at the End of the World
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- When
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June 27, 2008 – July 3, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$9.75
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In many ways, Encounters at the End of the World is the ultimate Werner Herzog documentary. Set in Antarctica, it (blessedly) sidesteps the hot topic of penguins to focus on the human community living there — not to win Guinness World Records, so much as to live outside established societal conventions. All of Herzog's classic elements are in place: his nearly pagan fascination with nature, coupled with his refusal to anthropomorphize its wiles; his love of true eccentrics; and his own dour, first-person narration that never fully eclipses his sense of awe or, most importantly, his sense of fun.
