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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

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Date: 3 Aug 2011 13:05:04
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
A Film by Werner Herzog
DVD9 | ISO | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 01:17:11 | 7,80 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps + Commentary track | Subtitles: None
Genre: Sci-Fi | 2 wins | Germany, France, Austria, UK

Planet Earth has been decimated, and as mankind searches space for a new planet to inhabit, a race of aliens attempt to make a new home on the now-inhospitable planet abandoned by the human race in director Werner Herzog's strange sci-fi saga. Filmed in collaboration with NASA musician/photographer Henry Kaiser, The Wild Blue Yonder travels light years into the stars, and fathoms deep into the Antarctic Ocean, and speaks with noted scientists to offer a unique view of the universe and a cautionary tale which stresses the importance of preserving our natural resources for future generations. Oscar-nominated actor Brad Dourif plays the role of the alien who arrives on Earth only to discover that the planet hasn't fared much better than the dying world that he once called home.

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The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

The title of Werner Herzog's film refers to the brilliant cerulean color of the watery world that an extraterrestrial — played by the character actor Brad Dourif, naturally enough — calls home. A few minutes into “The Wild Blue Yonder,” though, and it seems clear that the title also refers to Mr. Herzog’s imagination, which remains as richly inventive as it is, at times, bafflingly, wonderfully alien. An artful mixture of carefully culled and originally produced material, “The Wild Blue Yonder,” which opens with an almost hilariously unnecessary declaration that it is “a science fiction fantasy,” purports to tell the story of an alien species, whose misfortunes are narrated throughout the film in bits and pieces by one of its own, the Andromedan (Mr. Dourif). At once a cautionary evolutionary tale and a flight of filmmaking fancy, “The Wild Blue Yonder” works better as an experience than it does conceptually. Mr. Herzog has gathered a trove of ravishing images in which you can get lost, especially if you don’t get hung up on how they fit together.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Described in its credits as "science fiction fantasy," German maverick Werner Herzog's latest, "The Wild Blue Yonder," should stand with the likes of "Fata Morgana" and "Lessons of Darkness" as one of helmer's best efforts at smudging the lines between docu and fiction. Entrancing and often funny pic spins tall tale about deep-space voyages to and from earth, via a mixture of original material, archive clips and footage shot in space by astronauts themselves. Achingly beautiful music by Ernst Reijseger completes ace package. Venice fest hit may prove too wild for wider distribution, but could soar as a niche release.
Excerpt rom Leslie Felperin's Review on Variety.com
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Herzog’s use of cinema defies the very fabric of our known world. From the existential immersion of such “fiction” films as Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo to the minute grandeur found throughout his documentary work, the oft-mad genius now takes us on a similarly boundless visual fantasia through his own breed of mockumentary. An opening title card reads “a science fiction fantasy”, as The Wild Blue Yonder finds the director rekindling many of his long-running obsessions in the form of an wholly invented story of a dying alien planet and the journey taken there by a group of human astronauts. One of its former residents – conveniently in human form (a wonderful Brad Dourif, familiar to most as Grima Wormtongue from The Two Towers) – narrates the tale and reminisces his far away planet, he and many other former inhabitants having evacuated long ago in the midst of a destructive ice age.

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Herzog (assuming his audience capable of suspending disbelief enough to overlook the presence of some unavoidable anachronisms and inconsistencies) pieces together scripted interviews about theorized space travel, NASA footage of the 1989 STS-34 Space Shuttle mission (recasting the astronauts as travelers en route to the titular galactic body), and underwater footage of artic marine life (presented as the extra-terrestrial planet), all held together by a wholly alien (to most viewers, that is) score featuring Dutch cellist Ernst Reijsiger and Senegalese singer Mola Sylla. The synchronization of these marvelous sights and sounds creates an overwhelming sense of genuine long-ago, far-away ness (if Stanley Kubrick and David Bowie ever had a love child, this would have been it), while the often sublimely ridiculous use of natural footage (at one point the “inhabitants” of The Wild Blue Yonder are even given voices and their own distinct tongue) prove a dazzling ode to the mesmerizing power of nature. Our Alien narrator, meanwhile – often before locations of abandoned buildings or decrepit scrap heaps – yearns for the preservation of earth’s natural beauty and the staying of mankind’s viral natural imperialism, the human population committing many of the same sins his own race once practiced in vain.

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

The use of marine cinematography is nothing if not coolly brilliant (tapping into the fact that our own oceans are often more alien and unexplored than even distant worlds), as countless bits of floating ice sprinkle through the alien “atmosphere,” and underwater structures are imagined to be ancient alien cathedrals. Being so naturally outlandish, the experience can surely be interpreted in many a different way, but it is the unwavering conviction brought to the table that gives it an unprecedented emotional and spiritual weight, particularly when it’s imagined human explorers are metaphysically transported back to earth via light particles, only to find a detoxified, reborn world awaiting them. An experience that ultimately creates a plane of higher consciousness through its hallucinatory images, The Wild Blue Yonder is testament to the power of film to create new histories and imagine new beginnings.
The Projection Booth
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Extras:
- Trailers
- Featurette: Making-Of
- Audio Commentary: Werner Herzog - Director
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- Stills/Photos
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