The Revenant | Dec 25 Limited, Jan 8 2016 wide | Opening in select IMAX theaters Jan 14th.

[JohnnyGossamer]

If anything, it feels a bit like a Kalatozov movie.

Sensed some Mohicans Mann and some vintage Lean. No Kubrick here either.

[4815162342]

If anything, it feels a bit like a Kalatozov movie.

I know that guy, he was totally jealous of the Karamazov brothers.

[The Futurist]

I don't really get the Kubrick comparison.

 

The natural light thing.

 

How many movies have been shot with only natural light ?

 

This, Barry Lindon & ?

[JohnnyGossamer]

The natural light thing.

How many movies have been shot with only natural light ?

This, Barry Lindon & ?

Tree Of Life? Mohicans? New World? Not sure honestly. Tele will know.

[The Futurist]

Tree Of Life? Mohicans? New World? Not sure honestly. Tele will know.

 

I made the comparison only because of this technical element.

 

The two movies are nothing alike.

 

It s interesting though, Barry Lindon was shot  with only candlelight and Kubrick asked Kodack to create new and special film footage to shoot the movie.

 

Here it seems Lubuezki is using the latest of the latest super high tech digital camera to shoot on exteriors. 

[pepsa]

Saw the trailer 2 days ago and the movie seem realy intrasting, love the trailer, LOVE Di carprio and love the time were the story unveals it self

[Plain Old Tele]

I made the comparison only because of this technical element.

 

The two movies are nothing alike.

 

It s interesting though, Barry Lindon was shot  with only candlelight and Kubrick asked Kodack to create new and special film footage to shoot the movie.

 

Here it seems Lubuezki is using the latest of the latest super high tech digital camera to shoot on exteriors. 

 

Shooting with available light is no longer the rare exception to the rule. Modern cameras and film stock are extremely sensitive. It's not really this special artistic achievement. Certainly you can get a great look doing it... on the other hand you can also achieve a wonderfully naturalistic effect using lights. I remember an interview with Roger Deakins where he talked about watching SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (a movie he filmed) and overhearing a couple of fellow DPs talking. They said the film looked nice, but then again, it's not very hard to make a film look nice when you're shooting with available light. Deakins quietly took this as a huge complement, because the film (and the sequence in question) hadn't been shot with available light -- he lit the whole damn thing.

 

edit: some films shot mostly (or exclusively) with natural light:

- The Crossing Guard

- The Girlfriend Experience

- Malick movies

- Lost in Translation

- Children of Men

- Amadeus

- The Long Goodbye

- Bloody Sunday

- Gerry

- Breathless

- The Apu Trilogy

 

Aside from specific films, there are certain directors and/or cinematographers who frequently like shooting with available light: Vilmos Zsigmond, Lubeski (of course), Harris Savides, Malick, Greengrass, Gus van Sant...etc

Edited July 20, 2015 by Telemachos

[The Futurist]

Shooting with available light is no longer the rare exception to the rule. Modern cameras and film stock are extremely sensitive.

 

Not for a whole movie though, I guess that s still pretty rare.

 

I watch some recent movie making offs and I still see lots of artificial light being used in daylight scenes especially the "paper light bulbs" ( if you see what I am referring too, I don't know how they are called) that changed artificial lighting on movie sets.

I believe this is an "invention" of a french DP but I don't find information on him, I read an article about it a long time ago.

[Plain Old Tele]

Not for a whole movie though, I guess that s still pretty rare.

 

I watch some recent movie making offs and I still see lots of artificial light being used in daylight scenes especially the "paper light bulbs" ( if you see what I am referring too, I don't know how they are called) that changed artificial lighting on movie sets.

I believe this is an "invention" of a french DP but I don't find information on him, I read an article about it a long time ago.

 

China balls. They've got a long history of being used for soft light.

[RichWS]

I think Malick would come to mind first. Other than Barry Lyndon using natural light, there's nothing really Kubrickian about that style or composition.

[grim22]

Movie Title	Dist.	New Date	Old Date
The Revenant	Fox	12/25/15 (Wide)	12/25/15 (Limited)

 

[TalismanRing]

The look reminds me of the under seen western Seraphim Falls where Jon Toll used natural light.

[The Futurist]

John Toll did The Thin Red Line : Holy Crap.

That s the most beautiful film I have ever seen.

[filmlover]

 

Movie Title Dist. New Date Old Date The Revenant Fox 12/25/15

(Wide) 12/25/15

(Limited)

 

That's 7 (!!!) wide Christmas Day/Weekend openers now, including 3 from Fox (this, Joy, Alvin & the Chipmunks #whatever). No way there isn't some shuffling that'll end up happening.

[dashrendar44]

Leo should just play Orson Welles circa Mr Arkadin in a biopic and call it a day. No need for make-up, he got the right belly size nowadays to pull it off.

[babz06]

That's 7 (!!!) wide Christmas Day/Weekend openers now, including 3 from Fox (this, Joy, Alvin & the Chipmunks #whatever). No way there isn't some shuffling that'll end up happening.

 I think they're making a mistake. They should keep The Revenant in January, doesnt seem like a Christmas movie to me. 

[Joel M]

 

Movie Title Dist. New Date Old Date The Revenant Fox 12/25/15

(Wide) 12/25/15

(Limited)

 

 

It made so much sense for this to use the Zero Dark Thirty/ Lone Survivor/American Sniper strategy, I don't know why they changed it. It's not just the crowded market on christmas weekend, it's also getting closer to Hateful 8. 

[The Futurist]

 

So it Begins.

[BadAtGender]

Didn't Bryan Singer explore using natural light for Jack the Giant Slayer?

[Jack Nevada]

DiCaprio is one of those actors who just gets all fat and scruffy when not making a movie. The whole dadbod thing started with him iirc