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A promotional collage for 'The Revenant', featuring a rugged character played by Leonardo DiCaprio on the left, a fierce graphic of an animal splattered with blood at the center, and Tom Hardy aiming a gun on the right. The title 'The Revenant' is displayed prominently at the top, emphasizing the film's 10th anniversary re-release.
The Revenant is often known as the film that finally got Leonardo DiCaprio an Oscar for acting after many years of near misses. The Revenant is also a beautifully shot and well-made film from director Alejandro G Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, both of whom took Oscar gold for it. So while the trailer for the rerelease might be hyping up that[...]
Come and See: This Russian War Movie Birthed 1917 and Children of Men
In Klimov's hands, shooting uninterrupted master shots was not about artistic showing off but marrying technique with a storytelling choice: to keep watching, to bear witness to the horrors of war unflinchingly. Come and See's Long Influence When I saw Children of Men and, more recently, 1917, both hyped for their virtuoso uninterrupted master shots; I thought,[...]
Tom Hardy Joins Leonardo Dicaprio In The Revenant
Inception reunion alert! Tom Hardy has officially joined the cast of Alejandro González Iñárritu's Western revenge thriller The Revenant, which has Leonardo Dicaprio in the lead role. Based on Michael Punke's novel The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge, Dicaprio plays a fur trapper who is robbed and left for dead by his companions after a[...]