(Werner Herzog, 2005, USA, 104 minutes)

Quietly emerging as one of the very best films in the legendary director Werner Herzog’s 60+ film oeuvre, his 2005 documentary Grizzly Man looks at the life, work, and death of divisive figure Timothy Treadwell, an autodidact naturalist who spent 13 summers in the wilds of Alaska among the grizzly bears, unarmed, before being eaten by one in 2003. Using a great deal of beautiful, and sometimes a bit unhinged, footage shot by Treadwell himself, Herzog inevitably takes the opportunity to riff on some of his favorite topics: death, madness, the chaos of nature.

With an introduction and brief pre-show performance by double bassist Damon Smith, who performed on the score for the film.