Tracing the thread…
His obsessive documentaries like 'Grizzly Man' explore humanity's dangerous fascination with bears and the boundaries between predator and prey.
Jean-Jacques Annaud FranceHe directed 'The Bear' (1988), a masterwork of visual storytelling centered entirely on a bear's survival journey and flight from hunters.
Alejandro González Iñárritu MexicoHis film 'The Revenant' features one of cinema's most visceral bear-chase sequences as a pivotal moment of primal human suffering and survival.