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  • This particular owl, being both cowled and cosmonautical, has otherworldy resonances yet has the pathos of a victim face down on the side of a road.

    Gary Barwin on Merrill Gilfillan Lemon Hound 2009

  • Kimberly Chun talks with Werner Herzog about The Wild Blue Yonder, which Cheryl Eddy reviews: "If aliens ever do make it to Earth - if they're not already here, that is - and they're in the market for a documentarian, they need only see Yonder to know Herzog has the necessary cosmonautical chops."

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 1/31. 2007

  • They were only 30 minutes off schedule which in cosmonautical terms was an expert performance.

    Duel Under the Double Sun Scheer, Karl 1977

  • Cheryl Eddy reviews: "If aliens ever do make it to Earth - if they're not already here, that is - and they're in the market for a documentarian, they need only see Yonder to know Herzog has the necessary cosmonautical chops."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • The turned-over owl looks up with a face that is both other yet affecting, both calm and fey, cosmonautical and simian, moon allusive and animal real, which I’d say, is as beautifully subtle and nuanced definition of memory, loss, regret, and dreams as one is likely to find by the side of any road.

    Gary Barwin on Merrill Gilfillan Lemon Hound 2009

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