December 4, 20159 yr Paris ?@Paris 3m3 minutes ago Thank you @LeoDiCaprio for your commitment against #ClimateChange! #Cities4Climate #COP21
December 4, 20159 yr Thank you Ox! He looks great  Curious what else/how long he'll stay in Europe!  And thanks Jade for the interview link Â
December 4, 20159 yr 'The Revenant' a trial for both actor and audience  Quote  Early press coverage of "The Revenant" has focused on the grueling experience director Alejandro G. Inarritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio had shooting their frontier epic. After the film screened to an attentive audience of media and awards voters recently at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it seems clear that moviegoers will also need some grit to make it through the brutal 2-hour, 36-minute tale of real-life frontiersman Hugh Glass (DiCaprio), which Fox will open at Christmas. An explorer guiding fur trappers in what is now South Dakota, Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear in 1823 and left for dead by members of his party. "The Revenant," from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith and Inarritu, depicts Glass' expedition with merciless realism, showing him grappling with the bear, scavenging meat off carcasses and cauterizing his own festering wounds by burning them shut. Members of the crowd at a recent screening, which nearly filled the academy's 1,200-seat theater, gasped, yelped and often covered their eyes during the film, while others walked out during "The Revenant's" many violent sequences. At a post-screening Q&A, DiCaprio said "The Revenant" was "the most difficult film, I think, that any of us have ever done." Glass spends much of the movie alone and rendered nearly speechless by injury, leaving DiCaprio to communicate his character's anguish and agony wordlessly, with pleading eyes and a staggering body. When he speaks, it is often in a Native American language, either to his son or to a helpful Pawnee Indian whom he meets on the trail. While all eyes are on DiCaprio as an Oscar contender, supporting performances by Tom Hardy as a fearsome trapper with much of the movie's dialogue and Domhnall Gleeson as the good-hearted leader of the expedition are equally memorable. Native American actors in smaller roles deliver some of the movie's most stirring moments, including Forrest Goodluck as Glass' son, Hawk. Shot in Canada and Argentina by Emmanuel Lubezki, who has won the Oscar for cinematography the last two years in a row for "Birdman" and "Gravity," "The Revenant" juxtaposes barbarous action sequences pitting man against nature and man against man with sweeping vistas of snow-covered mountains and icy rivers.  Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/entertainment/movies-news-reviews/article47925870.html#storylink=cpy
December 4, 20159 yr Kat  Tks for Revenant article  As to Leo /Europe:  According to the BAFTA tweet I found last week, he should be in London by Sunday for Revenant screening & Q&A
December 4, 20159 yr The Revenant' could mean repeat Oscar wins for its 'Birdman' director-cinematographer team Quote Nineteen directors have won at least two Oscars. Only two of those directors took home Oscars in back-to-back years — John Ford for "The Grapes of Wrath" and "How Green Was My Valley" in 1941-42 and Joseph L. Mankiewicz for "A Letter to Three Wives" and "All About Eve" in 1950-51. In the ensuing 64 years, no director, not Billy Wilder or Frank Capra, not Steven Spielbergor Clint Eastwood (to name four who have been nominated in consecutive years), have pulled off that feat.  Which brings us to Alejandro G. Iñárritu, the sometimes charming, always demanding Mexican filmmaker who took the Oscar last year for "Birdman" and who may very well join Mankiewicz and Ford this year as a repeat for his upcoming revenge western "The Revenant."  But if Iñárritu is trying to join a select group, his cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki, is looking to do something no director of photography has ever done — win three Oscars in a row. And it's hard to begrudge him the honor. Lubezki had been nominated five times for his work with Alfonso Cuarón, Terrence Malick and Tim Burton before winning his first Oscar in 2014 for executing the breathtaking visuals seen in Cuarón's "Gravity." This year, Lubezki won again for pulling off the intricately choreographed, continuous-take illusion at the heart of "Birdman." And now, this masterful innovator is at it again, shooting "The Revenant" using only natural light. As Iñárritu told The Times last year, "He loves to live on the edge. If failure is not a possibility, he doesn't seem interested."  Will the "Revenant" team make history? An early look at the races for directing and cinematography:  DIRECTOR Ridley Scott, "The Martian" Alejandro G. Iñárritu, "The Revenant" Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight" David O. Russell, "Joy" Steven Spielberg, "Bridge of Spies"  ----  CINEMATOGRAPHY Emmanuel Lubezki, "The Revenant" Roger Deakins, "Sicario" John Seale, "Mad Max: Fury Road" Janusz Kaminski, "Bridge of Spies" Robert Richardson, "The Hateful Eight"  -----  http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/la-en-gold-standard-the-revenant-director-cinematographer-team-20151203-column.html  Â
December 4, 20159 yr  Quote  Just saw an early screening of The Revenant, I think it might be Leo's Year! (No spoilers) (self.movies) submitted 12 hours ago by tinman117 The whole movie was phenomenal. The acting was amazing on all fronts. This may finally be Leo's year. Also the cinematography was amazing and the action scene's were some of the best I've ever seen. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Iñárritu wins back to back. Also I have to say domhnall gleeson really surprised me. I knew he was good, but he really did some amazing work as well. If anyone has questions, I'll gladly answer. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3vdej6/just_saw_an_early_screening_of_the_revenant_i/  You can read some of his answers to fans questions in the reddit link^ -----  Listen to a track from The Revenant's score  http://www.irishexaminer.com/technow/movies/listen-to-a-track-from-the-revenants-score-369521.html  Sounds so beautiful Â
December 4, 20159 yr 14 minutes ago, oxford25 said: Kat  Tks for Revenant article  As to Leo /Europe:  According to the BAFTA tweet I found last week, he should be in London by Sunday for Revenant screening & Q&A Thanks for the info! Â
December 4, 20159 yr via gettyimages  Quote  US actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends a Summit of Local elected for Climate at the Paris city hall on December 04, 2015 in Paris, France. Thousand mayors from different cities gather at the Paris city hall during the COP21, Paris Climate Conference.  Â
December 4, 20159 yr 49 minutes ago, katchitup said: New Still:   Thanks for posting this, katchitup! This is such a powerful still. I already know this will be one of if not the best of his performances to date. He emotes so much in this image. It's simultaneously heartbreaking and intriguing. I don't see how he won't win for this.
December 4, 20159 yr Kat  Tks for Revenant article/score link, Art Basel, LACMA, and striking Revenant still   Jade  Wow, all the Paris Climate pix, tks
December 4, 20159 yr Daily Mail article about Leo's appearance at Paris Climate conference , we can see his dad George was with him  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3345997/Cities-help-gap-emissions-cut-pledges-2C-goal.html   Â
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