Grizzly Man

DZUSA buddy-blog, Burncopy, links the trailer to a film I desperately want to see. Grizzly Man is a documentary (although director Werner Herzog rejects the term, preferring to call his fictional and nonfictional works just "movies" [an aside, a question really, directed at you film types, I naively ask, is auteur simply another word for a director, or can it only be used to describe a director who subscribes to the auteur theory?]) about bear "expert" Timothy Treadwell whose breathtaking and harrowing footage makes up most (all?) of the film. Of course, Treadwell's repeated declaration "I would die for these animals" and his oft-macabre discussions of death-by-bear are especially haunting because Treadwell did in fact, get mauled to death by a grizzly.