The Atlanta moviegoer’s ‘Cave’ dilemma

Good news, everyone! Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams is now playing at the United Artists Tara Cinema. The German director’s documentary about the Chauvet Cave paintings in Southern France has been touted as having some of the most artful use of 3D of any film ever made.

But there’s a snag. The Tara is not actually exhibiting Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D style. Obviously, it’s still the same movie, and our own Wyatt Williams told me that it’s “really, really amazing even w/o 3d.” But I’ve also heard that Herzog filmed Cave in 3D and makes it the rare film that treats the approach as more than an audience-hustling gimmick. One could make a road trip to a nearby city showing it 3D, but according to Moviefone, the next nearest theaters showing Cave are in Greensboro, N.C., Newport, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, which seems like an awfully long way to go to for a 90-minute documentary.

So should you hold out for Cave to open hear (or even, say, Chattanooga) in 3-D? See it locally in 2D? Just wait for the DVD release, if you’re going to see it two dimensions, anyway? I don’t know what to tell you.