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Have it Your Way
Two documentaries expose divergent views of death and nature.
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Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog, Director
Lions Gate Films, 2005
March of the Penguins
Luke Jacquet, Director
Warner Independent Pictures, 2005
Look: What is nature? What is death? And who's looking? These are pivotal issues in trying to understand two new documentaries about the natural world, Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man and Luc Jacquet's March of the Penguins.
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