Alejandro González Iñárritu told cinematographer Lubezki to study Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev (1966) and Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala—how these filmmakers filmed nature not as backdrop but as spiritual force. DiCaprio's face pressed against snow and rock becomes an extension of geography itself. Tarkovsky's belief that landscape has interiority runs through every frame.
The Films That Shaped It