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Post by spiderwort on Mar 4, 2017 0:03:57 GMT
Wilderness of any kind - desert, mountains, prairie, woodlands, the sea. It doesn't mean there can't be a few scenes in a town or village, but it should primarily take place in the wilderness, or a home in the wilderness. I'll start with these:
The Wind (1928) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Dersu Uzala (1975) Never Cry Wolf (1983)
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Post by yezziqa on Mar 4, 2017 0:06:36 GMT
The Lion King (1994) Perhaps not what you meant.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 4, 2017 0:36:56 GMT
How the West was Won- it's a rip snorting saga of American triumphalism with at least a nod to tge injustice done the Native peoples and nature. But tge performances are good , the Cinérama is fun.
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Post by kijii on Mar 4, 2017 1:26:12 GMT
127 Hours (2010) The River of No Return (1954) The Fox (1957)
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Post by Doghouse6 on Mar 4, 2017 1:37:45 GMT
Such films aren't normally up my alley, but there are some I find quite compelling:
Jeremiah Johnson The Man From Snowy River
And for reasons I can't quite fathom, desert environments "speak to me" when presented cinematically:
Legend Of the Lost - John Wayne, Sofia Loren and Rossano Brazzi on a quest for said-to-be-mythical desert treasure. The Garden Of Allah - Wildly glamorous and fanciful desert romance with Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer and Basil Rathbone in ravishing mid-'30s Technicolor. Inferno - Robert Ryan, injured and left for dead in a scorching desert by faithless wife Rhonda Fleming and her lover, struggles for survival and retribution. Savages - A 1974 TV movie cross-breeding Inferno and The Most Dangerous Game, in which wealthy and cold-blooded sportsman Andy Griffith - twisting his grinning Andy Taylor charm into one of the most smugly sinister villains you'll ever see - makes teenage guide Sam Bottoms his prey, engaging him in a sadistic cat-and-mouse game after the young man has witnessed Griffith's killing of a prospector. Hard to find, but well worth seeking out if you can.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 4, 2017 1:40:55 GMT
DELIVERANCE (1972) JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972) THE TRAP (1966)
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 4, 2017 1:53:47 GMT
THE TRAP is a pretty good film. great performance by oliver reed. though the print i watched was nothing great.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 4, 2017 4:50:31 GMT
The silent grandeur and solitude of a virgin Wilderness forest inspires me with awe... A self reliant wilderness explorer in my youthful days has left me with a profound connection & respect for our precious wild places.. Two films which come to mind with a stark wilderness contrast I really like are the Soviet/Russian films... Neotpravlennoe Pismo, Letter Never Sent (1960) Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov Four dedicated Russians, a guide and 3 geologists are dropped off by helicopter, on their third expedition to find diamonds in the remote Forest Wilderness of the Central Siberian Plateau. What ensues is an epic struggle against the forces of fate and mother nature. Urusevsky's cinematography is sensational the depth and rugged beauty of the remote wilderness and it's four human intruders is beautifully and dramatically portrayed an amazing adventure . reverse tracking shot, waving the chopper goodbye after being dropped into the wilderness Kak ya provel etim letom, How I Ended This Summer (2010) Directed by Alexei Popogrebski The fascinating remote setting for this film was in the Northern Siberian icescape Wilderness surrounding the Valkarkay polar station on the Chukchi Sea. A meteorology student is spending the summer as an intern at the isolated Soviet-era weather station, the only other inhabitant an older and experienced geophysicist. The amazing beauty and expanse of this isolated wilderness is a real treat to see, the harsh environment adds a raw unpredictable natural element which heightens the atmospheric mood in this tense psychological thriller.
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Mar 4, 2017 5:38:16 GMT
Like your Dersu Uzala pick, probably my fave Kurosawa. Just noticed on IMDb (remember that site?) that this is a remake of an earlier Soviet film from '61. Somehow I never knew that, or maybe I did at some point and my mind has thrown that piece of info out.
Into The Wild-- Chris McCandless is mostly 'alone' even when on screen with other people.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Black Robe, The Revenant, The Road, Kubrick's Shining should count even though it's all indoors.
Ravenous-- one of the greatest movies ever made. American west, American Civil War era, horror, dark humour, snow and cold, simple but creepy score, mystery, isolation, great cast. What more could you want?
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Post by rick220 on Mar 4, 2017 5:50:08 GMT
Very happy to see mentions of Letters Never Sent, The Big Trail and Walkabout.
Nobody could shoot Monument Valley like John Ford, so most of his Westerns.
Also consider the final 30 minutes of Von Stroheim's Greed (1925), which were shot in Death Valley. The heat is oozing from the screen.
And then obviously the Tarzan films, of which Tarzan and his Mate not only has plenty of wilderness but also the kind of wild nude swimming sequence.
And only last week I re-watched Apocalypse, now, probably my favorite film of all time, not in the least because of the jungle scenes and the final act in Kurz's jungle/river construction in Cambodia.
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Post by gunshotwound on Mar 4, 2017 6:28:54 GMT
Sands of the Kalahari The Lost Patrol Flight of the Phoenix The Mosquito Coast Lord of the Flies The Three Godfathers The Savage Is Loose all versions of Robinson Crusoe Westward the Women The White Dawn
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 4, 2017 7:10:40 GMT
Like your Dersu Uzala pick, probably my fave Kurosawa. Just noticed on IMDb (remember that site?) that this is a remake of an earlier Soviet film from '61. Somehow I never knew that, or maybe I did at some point and my mind has thrown that piece of info out.
Both versions are excellent films, they tell the fascinating true story of adventures into the relatively unknown Russian Far East region named the Sikhote-Alin. This area was extensively explored early in the 20th century by Vladimir Arsenyev who described his remarkable experiences in several books, notably Dersu Uzala (1923). The rugged and forested temperate zone is home to many unique species, reindeer, the Ussuri brown bear, the Amur leopard, Siberian tiger, and the Asiatic black bear. The importance of this unique region was recognized and secured for posterity in 2001 when UNESCO placed much the Sikhote-Alin region onto the World Heritage List, citing the areas critical importance for the survival of endangered species such as the scaly-sided (Chinese) merganser, Blakiston’s fish-owl and the Amur tiger. a total area of 16,319 square kilometres (4,033,000 acres) lies within this protected zone.. One of the highlights of Agasi Babayan's 1961 film is his incredible photography of the expansive wilderness landscapes of the taiga.
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Post by BooRadley on Mar 4, 2017 13:34:49 GMT
A lot of good ones already mentioned. May I add,
Five Came Back - 1939 The Thing from Another World - 1951
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 4, 2017 17:55:52 GMT
Man in the Wilderness
Flight of the Phoenix (original) - though the wilderness is an endless desert
North Face (mountain climbers)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 4, 2017 21:03:28 GMT
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes , Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Directed by Werner Herzog
A spellbinding adventure story that follows the travels of Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadores down the Orinoco and Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. Loosely based on a real life figure Aquirre , the film creates a vision of madness and a sense of extreme folly. The lush beauty of the unforgiving Amazonian jungle is magnificently portrayed and the film becomes hallucinatory as the lost adventurers are swallowed up by the jungle wilderness.
Filming took place on location in the Peruvian rainforest on the Amazon River, on tributaries of the Ucayali region. it was an arduous five-week production for all concerned. The cast and crew climbed mountains, cut through heavy scrub for access, and rode treacherous river rapids on rafts built by natives.
Deservedly highly praised by the critics and audiences, Aquirre influenced the 1979 film Apocalypse Now, and contains seemingly deliberate visual "quotations". Coppola himself has noted, "Aguirre, with its incredible imagery, was a very strong influence. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it". I have always thought that Peter Weir must have seen Aquirre, his use of haunting flute in Picnic at Hanging Rock has some similarities in creating an intangible mood much like Hezog's film.
A genuinely haunting adventure classic...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 23:54:57 GMT
I forgot about this one. Excellent acting, and the fact that despite my reservations, I actually enjoyed an entire movie filmed in this tiny location. The music really helped as well, especially when he was cutting. This movie gave me a new perspective.
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Post by gadolinium on Mar 5, 2017 0:11:21 GMT
The Red Tent (1969).
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Post by movielover on Mar 5, 2017 2:01:20 GMT
Deliverance Never Cry Wolf Jeremiah Johnson Stand by Me Predator (jungle wilderness) The Hunger Games movies
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 5, 2017 2:15:23 GMT
Hitchcock's "Lifeboat"
Strange Cargo
Sahara (Bogart)
Time of the Wolf
Mad Max
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Post by camimac on Mar 5, 2017 2:18:17 GMT
If all the scenes out in the desert count as wilderness then:
Lawrence of Arabia; and,
Hidalgo
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