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Grizzly Man (2005)
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"The King of Kong I had high hopes for this film and it did not disappoint! Although I don't see relatively too many new releases, I think it's still a lot to say that I consider this one of the most enjoyable movies to come out in the last couple years. And I think it's my favorite documentary to come out since Grizzly Man in 2005 and I've seen a couple others that are also really great. Supposedly the filmmaker is now going to be making a dramatized version of this story in a new film. I've very skeptical about how that will play out, at least I wonder how well it will play with anyone who has already seen the actual documentary. How can you find someone to play Billy better than the real Billy? The filmmakers claim they have a lot worse footage of Billy they didn't show because it wasn’t really relevant and they didn't want to make him seem any wo "
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"When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces a shortlist for one of its Oscar categories, many critics immediately focus on what titles are missing. Religulous was snubbed! Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired was punished for having a “secret” qualifying run! The Academy’s rules for eligibility must be amended! Such reactions were seen all over the web last week as awards season pundits looked at the narrowed-down list of 15 Feature Documentary hopefuls and criticized the Academy for its omissions. But the better response (which is the one SpoutBlog had) is to primarily address and celebrate the included films, not just for being contenders for the Feature Documentary Oscar but also for being showcased in general. The wonderful thing about shortlists is that they expand further the idea that it’s great just to be nominated. For feature documentaries, particularly those without a lot of "
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"I’m not down with hockey movies, and I’m definitely not down with movies in which animals play sports, yet somehow I’m a huge fan of this video. And all it is is bears playing hockey. Maybe it’s because, unlike most hockey movies, I don’t need to actually worry about the game or the plot. I just need to become hypnotized by giant bears skating around on ice and hitting a puck with a hockey stick. Maybe the puck goes into a goal, maybe not, I don’t care. Maybe there’s a ragtag, underdog team on that ice, maybe not, I don’t care. There’s no dialogue, voiceover or narration of any kind, no attacking and killing the referee as if he were Grizzly Man’s Timothy Treadwell, just the calming visuals of a hockey game played by bears. And apparently those are real bears really playing hockey, which is what makes it better than most animals-playing-s "
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Grizzly Man - The Aristocrats
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"By Tricia Olszewski David Letterman must be feeling pretty bad. Included in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man is a clip of the movie’s subject, self-anointed “bear expert” Timothy Treadwell, as a guest on Late Show a few years back. “Is it gonna happen that one day we read a news article about you being eaten by one of these bears?” Letterman teasingly asked Treadwell, who devoted 13 summers to living among grizzlies in Alaska. Nervous laughter followed, but Dave’s joke would eventually become very, very unfunny. Treadwell and a companion, Amie Huguenard, were mauled and, yes, eaten by one of the creatures they were allegedly protecting at Katmai National Park and Preserve in 2003, just before they were set to leave the Alaskan peninsula. What remained of their bodies—a rib cage, an arm, a “head with a little bit of backbone attached”—was discovered by the pilot who was to pick up Treadwell, as he’d been doing for ... "
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"This material in another film-makers hands could well have seemed crass and exploitative.. Werner Herzog manages to make something special ..whilst his opinions are voiced over the images,somehow he allows you to reach your own conclusions about Timothy Treadwell's story. As Herzog acknowledges,sound, Music in particular plays a huge part in the artistic success of a film. In just a few days Richard Thompson and a few other select musicians created a fabulous soundscape. It's also great to see Werner Herzog,sitting in the studio,taking immense pleasure from witnessing his ideas being brought to fruition so expertly. "
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""Encounters at the End of the World," Werner Herzog's first documentary since "Grizzly Man" chronicles the lives of scientists living in the far reaches of Antarctica at McMurdo Station. The desolate community, resembling a mining town, is populated with an odd assortment of top researchers and those who are dubbed "Ph.Ds washing dishes."Set to a soundtrack of Gregorian chants and haunting strings, Herzog's cinematographer captures the wonders of this foreign land with simple beauty that resonates to the atmosphere. Snowy landscapes of incomprehensible magnitudes extend in all directions. Under the ice, creatures reminiscent of '50s sci-fi films thrive in the frigid waters and co-exist with microscopic organisms newly-discovered on a near daily basis.And then there are the penguins, the cinematically-famous animals which Herzog explicitly dismisses as intended subjects of his film. Keeping exposure to a minimum, the film instead features a purely comic and tragic side of the birds. ... "
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"Ever since he borrowed the other worldy footage of underwater Antarctica to make The Wild Blue Yonder (2005), Werner Herzog has wanted to make a film there himself. The National Science Foundation invited him to come. As, Herzog narrates in the introduction to Encounters at the End of the World, “I told them I would not make a movie about cute, fluffy penguins.” Herzog wants exploration, not a story. Among the questions he wants to explore is why do chimpanzees–clearly superior primates–not domesticate lesser animals? “A chimpanzee could climb on the back of a goat and ride into the sunset. But it doesn’t. Why?” Herzog asks in his dry, german accented monotone. Of course, he’s not studying chimpanzees in Antarctica, but he sets the tongue-in-cheek tone for the film. He’s a funny narrator, not nearly so severe as in Grizzly Man. But it is Werner Herzog. So, although he’s funny, he’s constantly reminding us we’re all doomed. The beaut "
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"The subject of Herzog's film (a film for which he is more editor and narrator than director), Timothy Treadwell, is flamboyant, effusive and interesting enough to have made this a good doc anyway, but Herzog's brilliant use of Treadwell's footage elevates it beyond just that. Herzog has made a film which is part wildlife documentary, part biopic of Treadwell, and part analysis of Treadwell's film-making talent. It's captivating stuff, and more so because the end is so obvious and well known.Treadwell is such a marvellously watchable screen presence, a camped-up version of Steve Irwin, with girl troubles and a huge desire to be loved. The biopic part of the film is the story of an alcoholic finding purpose in protecting the animals he loves. But Treadwell's devotion to his cause is manic, and the way in which he chases his dream shows (in his own footage) quite how disturbed he was. Count, for instance, the number of times he tells an animal, in his babyish voice, that he loves it - ... "
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Grizzly Man
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"Grizzly Man (2005) is, by all accounts, a good documentary, which makes me think there are two competing definitions of what makes a good documentary. One meaning is like “This is a brilliant example of the genre” and the other is like “You will really enjoy watching this.” Grizzly Man may well be the epitome of the genre, but it is not particularly good viewing. Mr. Treadwell, who spent 13 summers living among Alaskan grizzlies before being eaten, is instantly and continuously off-putting. Right from the start he is layers and layers removed from us. Although we see him “intimately” through the 100 hours of film footage he took, we really see a manic-depressive who has made himself into a character he thinks is appealing to school kids. He usually talks to the grizzlies and to us as if to children. He claims to be protecting the grizzlies, but they are usually in a park and poaching is almost non-existent. He claims to be studying them, but we s ... "
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"One of many fascinating parts of this film was the explaination of its subject, Timothy Treadwell, and his days as a would-be actor in California. Before he re-invented himself as a natualist, filming himself in the woods tempting bears and fate, before he changed his name, he was runner to the Woody Harrelson's part in the TV series, Cheers. I'm not sure what to make of this except that Treadwell wanted first to be a star of the Hollywood persuasion. It's not the only part of the story. He was an alcoholic who believed found himself in nature, got clean, worked for nothing, entertained children, and found a cause. And a talent for survival. This film is quite amazing and beautiful and terrifying and sad. I liked it a lot. "
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