The Wild Blue Yonder
d. Werner Herzog, 2005
Werner Herzog's fascinating mockumentary The Wild Blue Yonder is the kind of film I would watch repeatedly if it ever opened in theatres. However, this wasn't as widely distributed as Herzog's other 2005 film, Grizzly Man, which I myself have not seen. The Wide Blue Yonder catalogues the fictional mission to find a new hospitable planet beyond the milky way. Narrated by a grumpy space alien (Brad Dourif), Herzog structures his film into different chapters--much like what he did in Lessons of Darkness--and cuts between Dourif's interviews and footage borrowed from NASA (thanked for its "sense of poetry" in the closing credits). Anywho, films this exciting don't come along very often; it may be the definitive sci-fi film of the decade.
