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Filed under: New Yorker Festival Tagged: Antarctica, Billy Gibbons, Brian De Palma, Daniel Zalewski, Dick Dale, events, Frances Sternhagen, movies, music, New Yorker Festival, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Vernon Reid, Werner Herzog
This just in! The New Yorker Festival has added an intriguing event for Saturday night. Here’s the info:
Saturday Night Movie: “Encounters at the End of the World”
The New Yorker presents a special preview screening of “Encounters at the End of the World,” a new documentary by Werner Herzog about the astonishing landscape and intrepid citizens of Antarctica. Following the screening, Herzog will talk with Daniel Zalewski.
7:30 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theatre
Joan Weill Center for Dance ($25)
I once saw Herzog interview Brian De Palma in a similar setting—I think it was the 1992 Viennale film festival. De Palma was promoting Raising Cain at the time. I won’t soon forget Herzog’s response after De Palma spent three minutes rhapsodizing about the use of computers to help him plan out ever-more-meticulous SteadiCam sequences involving Frances Sternhagen. Herzog—famous for subjecting his crews to the agonies of the Amazon—managed to pipe up, “But don’t you lose something in the spontaneity?” De Palma and Herzog—boy, interviewer and interviewee were rarely so mismatched. I’m sure Zalewski will be a better complement, and I can promise you, Herzog is very diverting! Go see this! I’ve heard terrific things about the new documentary, which is about Antarctica. (De Palma has yet to shoot a feature down there, with or without Sternhagen.)
Oh, and there’s one cancellation. The event featuring guitarists Dick Dale, Billy Gibbons, Vernon Reid, and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez is, alas, no more. Too bad!
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Thank you for this post. However, as of today, tickets to the Herzog film are not available on the Ticketmaster site. Also, it would be nice if they would let ticketholders know of a cancellation via the Festival Wire so one could make other arrangements.