Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds review – Werner Herzog dodges meteorites | Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

In his latest science doc, the existential film-maker considers the cataclysmic threat from space – as real now as it ever wasIn 2007,Werner Herzog made a movie about Antarctica calledEncounters at the End of the World, where he met the Cambridge University geographer and seismologist Clive Oppenheimer. The resulting partnership has opened up whole new adventures for Herzog in pop anthropology and the history of ideas. Together, Herzog and Oppenheimer madeInto the Inferno in 2016, with Oppenheimer largely in front of the camera and Herzog behind, supplying the unmistakable rasping voiceover with its occasional flourishes of nihilist black comedy. Into the Inferno was all about how volcanos create strange belief systems and supplicant ideologies in the humans around them.Related:Werner Herzog: 'I'm fascinated by trash TV. The poet must not avert his eyes'Continue reading...
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