62 | August• 2017
THE REVENANT, 2015, KANANASKIS, ALBERTA, CANADA
Look at this fabulous wilderness. It’s beautiful, yes, but can
you imagine trying to eke out an existence here? Freezing
temperatures, food shortages, bears and wolves ... and
that’s just for the cast and crew of Alejandro González
Iñárritu’s Oscar-winning survival thrillerThe Revenant.
For the early 19th-century fur trappers on whose lives
the film is based, conditions were even worse. Starring
Leonardo DiCaprio (left), the film was shot in Canada,
the US and Argentina.CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE
THIRDKIND, 1977, DEVILS
TOWER, WYOMING, USA
The Devils Tower is a
geologically extraordinary
265m-tall protrusion of
igneous rock that doubles as
a perfect UFO landing site –
as demonstrated by Steven
Spielberg’s epic sci-fi film. If
you’ve seen it, you may recall
Richard Dreyfuss creating a
replica of the haunting tower
out of mashed potatoes. PHOTOS, PREVIOUS SPREAD: (WADI RUM) LP/JOE WINDSOR-WILLIAMS. THIS SPREAD: (CANADA) SHUTTERSTOCK/VALESTOCK; (TOWER) LP/MARK READ; (SILVERTON) GETTY IMAGES; (DINER) SHUTTERSTOCK/VALESTOCK