When Din and I first met, I wanted to get a tattoo on my back of underwater. Din obligingly tried to understand what I meant. I said what I meant was, what I would see if were I a sea turtle. Not some corny tableaux of smiling starfish and undulating seaweed, but the murkiness and crispness of the ocean, the blue and the green and gray and the bubbles of it, the cold of it, the life in it, the fear in it. We went to a few tattoo shops around SF, but I didn't really want the tattoo of the sea on me, I wanted to be in the sea. I always have and always will. Then today, I saw this. 
Well, yes, that would be it. It's a still from Werner Herzog's new film, Encounters at the End of the World, which opens today in New York. Here's Dargis's review. And here's the trailer. I long to see the whole thing.
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I'm sure you know about it, but if not, buy (don't rent) Baraka. I have seen it at least 100 times, and often have it on as background art in my office. On a crisp large screen it is a real experience.
http://www.amazon.com/Baraka-Ron-Fricke/dp/B00005M91K/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1213282545&sr=8-1
Well, now that I see the price, go ahead and rent it first...
Posted by: Eric | June 12, 2008 at 07:57 AM
Just put it at the top of the Netflix queue - thanks!
Posted by: Nancy Rommelmann | June 12, 2008 at 08:00 AM
You are in for a real treat. Let me know if you enjoyed it.
PS- Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Posted by: Eric | June 12, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Wow, interesting looking/sounding movie. There is a couch at McMurdo Station that is a part of the Couch Surfing network and have always thought that that would be something else. Wow. Looking forward to this one.
Posted by: Jason S. | June 14, 2008 at 06:07 PM
So, didja see Baraka?
Posted by: Eric | June 24, 2008 at 11:59 AM