In pondering 30,000 year old cave drawings Werner Herzog sees “an almost proto cinema.” A horse with six legs, suggesting movement, or the use of the uneven wall surface in the cave integrated into the image to give it depth all work to show movement, shape, and depth in an imagination that’s so many millennia away that it’s nearly impossible to ( Read more... )

Herzog did a good job of using his footage to show nature as cruel, chaotic, and indifferent. Yet Hezog's portrayal of Tredwell is sympathetic and respectful.

By the way the new CFI schedule is out.

This weekend they're showing Egoyan's latest which I missed the first time around..
And the retrospective on Mikio Naruse may be worth checking