Watch: How Baltasar Kormákur Scaled 'Everest' (Exclusive Video)

Venice opener "Everest" is a thrill-ride that deftly exploits the strengths of IMAX 3D to take us into a desolate upper-air atmosphere that defies any rational logic for human existence. "Why go?" journalist Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly) asks his fellow Everest climbers for his chronicle of the storm-tossed 1996 expedition, "Into Thin Air." "Because it's there." Director Baltasar Kormákur is a member of a growing band of truly international filmmakers who make films at home as well as Hollywood. Producer-star Mark Wahlberg starred in "Contraband," Kormakur's remake of his own "Reykjavik-Rotterdam," took a shine to...

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