The long arrows are coming into fashion.

Last night The Times Center hosted a fabulous event organized by The Museum of the Moving Image, a conversation between Jonathan Demme and Werner Herzog and a reception that followed to celebrate the launch of the new crazy cool Moving Image Source, a website and research guide to all things film, television and digital media.

Dennis Lim walked us through the interface of the website, highlighting its features and capabilities. But, naturally, he kept his presentation brief, as he could probably feel the collective anxiety in the room building in anticipation of one of the remaining true (as Herzog describes Roger Ebert) "soldiers of cinema". The real treat last night was Werner Herzog. (The unfortunate endorsement of Roger Ebert wasn't.)

To set the stage for the Demme-Herzog interview -- about growing up in Bavaria, not Germany, never having seen a film until the age of 11, and being able to pick out the man in the room who can milk a cow, among other things -- we got a peek at Herzog's latest film, Encounters at the End of the World, which, from a brief look at it, appears to capture his (forgive me for reducing it to this uninspired-but-for-lack-of-a-better-term) quirky sensibility.

It opens next Wednesday at Film Forum.