Werner Herzog

We're spared the sounds [of Treadwell's death], but haunted by our own mental image, one more example of the individual's capacity to create his own reality.

Wenders bops around Tokyo with the assurance of a skilled filmmaker, and emerges with an understated but certainly curious sociological postcard of '80s Tokyo.

A Discovery Channel production about Antarctica that breaks the mold with Herzog's eccentric musings and auteur's eye.

The interviews that make up the balance of the film yield plenty of oddities of modern American life.