Fountain Theatre Schedule
Screenings daily 7:30 p.m. ?Sunday matinee 2:30 p.m.
The Fountain Theatre ?2469 Calle De Guadalupe ?Mesilla, NM ?575.524.8287
Oct 3-9
Encounters at the End of the World
Dir: Werner Herzog (USA), 2007,
99 min. In English
As he journeys to the South Pole, which is as far as you can get from everywhere, Werner Herzog also journeys to the prospect of man's oblivion. Herzog has come to live for a while at the McMurdo Research Station, the largest habitation on Antarctica. Herzog loves these people, it is clear, because like himself they have gone to such lengths to escape the mundane and test the limits of the extraordinary. Herzog narrates as if we're watching movies of his last vacation -- informal, conversational, engaging. McMurdo is perched on the frontier of the coming suicide of the planet. Mankind has grown too fast, spent too freely, consumed too much, and the ice cap is melting, and we shall all perish. His visit to Antarctica was not intended, he warns us at the outset, to take footage of "fluffy penguins." But there are some penguins in the film, and one of them embarks on a journey that haunts my memory to this moment, long after it must have ended. Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
