LOOKING FOR ARCTIC/ANTARCTIC FILM SETTINGS
Robert Peffers
Firstly, I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone to helped me with
my other film title requests. I was
able to locate some wonderful films.
I am now looking for some films which are set in the Arctic or
Antarctic. I am looking for spectacular cinematography of snow covered
mountains, valleys, and a depictions of the frozen wastelands.
I would like to see more films with an Arctic or Antarctic setting
such as Carroll Ballard's "Never Cry Wolf" (1983) or John Carpenter's
"The Thing" (1982). While it did not take place in the Arctic or
Antarctic, I really enjoyed the frozen life and death struggle atop
the snowy mountains in Frank Marshall's "Alive" (1993).
Any suggestions?
Bob Peffers
william
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> Any suggestions?
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Smilla's Sense of Snow, for one.
William
www.williamahearn.com
art...@yahoo.com
Encounters at the End of The World is a documentary about people
working in Antarctica. I found it quite fascinating.
Michael O'Connor
> the snowy mountains in Frank Marshall's "Alive" (1993).
>
> Any suggestions?
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I remember the mid 70's South American film about the soccer team
plane crash not being too bad; it was called Survive.
Most of the 1979 Japanese disaster movie Virus (aka Fukkarsu No Hi)
takes place at a military base in Antarctica, but even though it was
Japanese made it had a large international cast including George
Kennedy, Chuck Connors, Robert Vaughn, James Edward Olmos, Sonny Chiba
and Olivia Hussey among others, and most of the supporting cast were
Oriental. This is one movie which was greatly improved by an extended
version which runs about 160 minutes; don't waste your time on the
version which runs about 108 minutes.
Quintet is a 1979 Altman film that is set in a post-apocalyptic frozen
wasteland starring Paul Newman. Intriguing movie, but I wouldn't call
it a disaster movie, nor would i classify it as sci-fi. More of a
morality play.
The early 70's MFTVM A Cold Night's Death was a well done film about
two Scientists working at an Arctic outpost studying primates. Stars
Robert Culp and Eli Wallach; very memorable ending.
.
william
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> I remember the mid 70's South American film about the soccer team
> plane crash not being too bad; it was called Survive.
There is also a Hollywood version. The title is "Alive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive_(1993_film)
>
William
www.williamahearn.com
TT
Bear Island(1979) with Donald Sutherland etc
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078836/
I made some time back a topic about films with snowy mountains and
recommended these four great films:
The Great Silence (1968)
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Death Hunt (1981)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Howard Brazee
nature films.
--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
- James Madison
jude
The documentary "March of the Penguins" is pretty good with some
striking photography. (The documentary "Encounters at the End od the
World" by Werner Herzog, also has a nice little bit involving a
penguin.)
william
Bill Anderson
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> Any suggestions?
Check out The Red Tent.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067315/
--
Bill Anderson
I am the Mighty Favog
michael
Sami country during wintertime: the films are Kautokeino oppr�ret (the
Kautokeino Rebellion , http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479937/ ) and Veiviseren
(Pathfinder or Ofelas, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093668/ ) . Both are
period pieces set in the past.
"Robert Peffers" <auldbobp...@gmail.com> skrev i melding
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Michael O'Connor
place in the Alaskan wilderness.
TT
> The Edge was an underrated late 90's adventure flick that mostly took
> place in the Alaskan wilderness.
Agreed. Can't understand how it has only 6.7 rating at imdb.
Michael O'Connor
One would think with Anthony Hopkins and Alec Baldwin and a David
Mamet script and outstanding cinematography it should rate higher.
Sol L. Siegel
4107-a8d3-a...@n35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com:
> I am now looking for some films which are set in the Arctic or
> Antarctic. I am looking for spectacular cinematography of snow covered
> mountains, valleys, and a depictions of the frozen wastelands.
>
> Any suggestions?
"The White Dawn" (1974), Philip Kaufman's feature debut, about three
stranded 19th-century whalers taken in by Canadian Inuits, with
predictably calamitous results. 35 years later, the theme melody still
comes back to haunt me from time to time.
Vincent Ward's "A Map of the Human Heart" (1993) tracks the unlikely
romance of an Inuit boy and a half-breed girl over continents and
decades, but isn't as memorable.
A favorite, briefly distributed in the US many years ago, is the Dutch
film "Tracks in the Snow" (aka "Pervola", 1985). To make a long story
as short as possible: after a half-hour of long, slow exposition, two
middle-aged Amsterdam brothers, one a straightlaced banker and the other
a gay cabaret performer, start out on a covered sledge through the
Norwegian winter to deliver their father's body to his preferred resting
place. In the process, they are attacked by wolves, armed nomads and
fire, none of which are as dangerous to them as they are to each other.
Alas, this strange, wonderful adventure flick doesn't seem to be on
video anywhere. But if anyone here somehow encounters it, give it a
try. Just prepare to wait out the first half-hour or so until they get
on that sledge.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089802/
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- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA
Evelyn Leeper
THE FAST RUNNER
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
--
Evelyn C. Leeper
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart;
for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -James Baldwin
David Oberman
>I really enjoyed the frozen life and death struggle atop
>> the snowy mountains in Frank Marshall's "Alive" (1993).
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>I remember the mid 70's South American film about the soccer team
>plane crash not being too bad; it was called Survive.
There's a film by the director Jan Troell, starring Max von Sydow,
that takes place at or near the North Pole. It deals with the wreck of
a hot-air balloon & the crew's fight to stay alive.
The cinematography might thrill you & awe you. This film is on my list
of Movies I Could Not Have Made Myself In A Million Years.
____
It is not exactly that we learn from each other, for no one can
really learn anything except in and by himself; it seems better to
say that we learn because of each other, and, indeed, that if there
were no others, there could be no learning at all. In this there is
a mystery, for we know not how to account for the first beginning
of all learning.
-- Richard Mitchell, "Psyche Papers" Part III
Steven L.
"Ice Station Zebra"
(though the "Arctic" scenes were pretty obviously shot on a sound stage)
And the Arctic scenes where the prehistoric monster first appears at the
North Pole in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" were iconic, though also
done on a sound stage.
--
Steven L.
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tomcervo
> "Michael O'Connor" <mpoconn...@aol.com> wrote:
> >I really enjoyed the frozen life and death struggle atop
> >> the snowy mountains in Frank Marshall's "Alive" (1993).
>
> >> Any suggestions?
>
> >I remember the mid 70's South American film about the soccer team
> >plane crash not being too bad; it was called Survive.
>
> There's a film by the director Jan Troell, starring Max von Sydow,
> that takes place at or near the North Pole. It deals with the wreck of
> a hot-air balloon & the crew's fight to stay alive.
>
> The cinematography might thrill you & awe you. This film is on my list
> of Movies I Could Not Have Made Myself In A Million Years.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084136/
Two of the stars appear in this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088551/
with a dream cast of every British actor not doing "Coronation
Street". It may be about the South Pole, or the British class system,
or just a study in management.
"Eight Below" is the Disney version of this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085991/
except that the original seems more childlike in its insistence on
looking at some harsh truths, well known in Japan, in comparison to
which "Eight Below" looks a story told by a cold old whore to please a
drunken client.
ReeferGuy
Scott of the Antarctic.
Was on TCM last week/
ReeferGuy™
Queens NY