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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 26, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Werner Herzog | |
Composition by | Richard Thompson | |
Produced by | Billy Campbell, Kevin L. Beggs, Phil Fairclough, Erik Nelson, Tom Ortenberg & Andrea Meditch | |
Director of Photography: | Peter Zeitlinger |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/5 --
As a character critique it is hardly a mauling, for Herzog is too sophisticated a thinker, too respectful towards his subject, and altogether too humane to tear Treadwell apart for a second time.
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Eye for Film
Herzog's stirring, thought-provoking documentary meditates with exceeding insight into the mind that drove the man.
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Cinemaphile.org
[S]omething unique and unforgettable....Herzog conducts his own expedition into knowing the unknowable...
Rolling Stone
Rating: A- --
A stirring documentary that adds to an already growing list of fascinating films from the genre this year.
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Bowling Green Daily News
4 stars out of 5 -- [A] tense and cinematic doc....Equal parts disturbing and hilarious.
Total Film
Treadwell, a failed TV actor, is presented as someone desperate to give and receive love. That he went to such extremes is tragic, but also, in Herzog's sympathetic eyes, deeply human.
Time Out
Herzog has his documentary in hand, explaining that what we have here "iz on astone-ishing story of beauty and depth". He's not wrong.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
Werner Herzog's persistent inquiry into the motivations of human obsession focuses this time on the self-proclaimed "kind warrior" Timothy Treadwell. A passionate wildlife preservationist and grizzly bear devotee, Treadwell lived unarmed among the grizzlies in a remote section of Alaska for 13 summers, and eventually died in a bear attack. He filmed his experiences during his final five years, and Herzog makes use of this footage in a posthumous portrait of a complex, intriguing character. A youthful blond actor turned nature lover, Treadwell is revealed over the course of the film to have been a troubled soul who found solace in the wild, and the existential questions and difficulties he faced in the world were, fascinatingly, worked out on film. Deftly interweaving Treadwell's quiet moments of nature appreciation with meandering introspection and alarmingly hostile rants, Herzog masterfully captures the enigma of the dead man. Herzog has a genuine appreciation of Treadwell's films, as well as sympathy for Treadwell's apparent unease with the world. Much of GRIZZLY MAN's complexity comes in our growing awareness of Timothy's apparent naivety, his need to see himself as a savior, and his sentimentalizing of nature. However, we are left with the impression of someone unafraid to follow his heart and go to any extreme--even death--in search of peace.
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