wild blue yonder August 18, 2006

AUG 18-31 Fri-Thurs at 7, 9:00pm
CALLS OF THE WILD: WERNER HERZOG

WILD BLUE YONDER
(Werner Herzog, UK/USA/France/Germany, 2005, 35mm, 81 min.)
SEATTLE THEATRICAL PREMIERE!

Werner Herzog's latest film is a typically inspired union of cinematic bravado and lunacy, a mockumentary ostensibly about a disgruntled alien's reminiscences of the long journey from the Andromeda galaxy to earth. Although the alien is played with crazy- eyed conviction by Brad Dourif, the whole exercise is really an excuse to reinvent a series of ethereally beautiful zero-gravity sequences shot during a NASA space shuttle mission and some extraordinary Arctic underwater diving scenes, all set to a hypnotic score of Sardinian polyphonic harmonies.

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