When director Alfonso Cuarón asked Billie Eilish to contribute a song to the soundtrack for Roma, she and Finneas O’Connell—her brother and main collaborator—were drawn to a line of dialogue spoken by Marco Graf’s character: “When I was older I used to be a sailor, but I drowned in a storm.” They took the line and ran with it.
“When I Was Older” is part haunting lullaby and part electronic eulogy, with Eilish’s silky vocals giving the impression she’s singing underwater, but it’s where she wants to be.
“When I Was Older” is part haunting lullaby and part electronic eulogy, with Eilish’s silky vocals giving the impression she’s singing underwater, but it’s where she wants to be.
- 2/5/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Actor-comedian and Oscar–nominated writer Kumail Nanjiani and actress–producer–director Tracee Ellis Ross announced the 91st Oscars nominations today (January 22), live from the Academy’s headquarters in Beverly Hills, CA.
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther made history by becoming the first superhero movie to receive a Best Picture nomination. Skippy, nominated for Outstanding Production at the 4th Academy Awards, was based on a comic strip.
Spike Lee received his first Best Director nomination for the film BlacKkKlansman. This is his fifth overall, including his Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay nominations this year. He was previously nominated for his original screenplay for Do the Right Thing (1989) and for the documentary feature 4 Little Girls (1997). Lee was the recipient of an Honorary Award in 2015.
A Star Is Born is the fourth film version to receive Academy Award nominations, for a total of 26 nominations. The acting nominations for Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga...
Marvel Studios’ Black Panther made history by becoming the first superhero movie to receive a Best Picture nomination. Skippy, nominated for Outstanding Production at the 4th Academy Awards, was based on a comic strip.
Spike Lee received his first Best Director nomination for the film BlacKkKlansman. This is his fifth overall, including his Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay nominations this year. He was previously nominated for his original screenplay for Do the Right Thing (1989) and for the documentary feature 4 Little Girls (1997). Lee was the recipient of an Honorary Award in 2015.
A Star Is Born is the fourth film version to receive Academy Award nominations, for a total of 26 nominations. The acting nominations for Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga...
- 1/22/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Is the whole genre of “Music Inspired by the Film” albums getting its redemption? They became a joke by the 1990s, when it seemed like any blockbuster was an excuse to put together an album of supposedly movie-inspired tracks that were really just as likely to be leftovers from artists’ previous releases. But this year, the Kendrick Lamar-produced “Black Panther: The Album — Music From and Inspired By” established that a soundtrack that isn’t really a pure soundtrack can be its own kind of art form.
Now Alfonso Cuaron is going to test that theorem a little further. It was announced Wednesday that the director has curated a companion album for “Roma,” titled “Music Inspired by the Movie Roma.” Neither Netflix nor Sony Music will say much about the project yet (least of all reveal a track list) and little is known about it except that it’ll come...
Now Alfonso Cuaron is going to test that theorem a little further. It was announced Wednesday that the director has curated a companion album for “Roma,” titled “Music Inspired by the Movie Roma.” Neither Netflix nor Sony Music will say much about the project yet (least of all reveal a track list) and little is known about it except that it’ll come...
- 1/10/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Undoubtedly the year that was 2018 was one of the oddest, to say the least. Events both in the United States and worldwide had movie goers escaping to cinemas for relief… both off world or right here on Terra Firma. Wamg’s Top 10 Movies of 2018 entertained audiences with superheroes and super-people alike, educated them with history lessons on prejudice, bigotry, and tragedy, while at the same time finding solace in one man’s gentle, understanding words as well as a family’s love, loss and sacrifice.
Uniquely all character, all human driven, here is a look at the Best films of the past year.
Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, Marco Graf as Pepe, Carlos Peralta Jacobson as Paco, and Daniela Demesa as Sofi in Roma, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Image by Alfonso Cuarón.
1. Roma: “It is hard to do justice in words to the sense of majesty and significance Cuaron...
Uniquely all character, all human driven, here is a look at the Best films of the past year.
Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, Marco Graf as Pepe, Carlos Peralta Jacobson as Paco, and Daniela Demesa as Sofi in Roma, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Image by Alfonso Cuarón.
1. Roma: “It is hard to do justice in words to the sense of majesty and significance Cuaron...
- 12/26/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, Verónica García, Andy Cortes, Fernando Grediaga, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, José Manuel Guerrero Mendoza | Written and Directed by Alfonso Cuaron
It physically pains me to report that Alfonso Cuaron’s long anticipated follow up to his 2013 critically acclaimed masterpiece Gravity is, unfortunately, a flat and ever prolonged emotional dud. A one-hundred and thirty-minute passionate project that’s based on Cuaron’s own childhood, Roma follows a family and their maid that slowly but surely unfolds its flush hand in a sad manner of a placid, albeit weighted emotional substance that fleets in such an elongated and weak fashion.
Roma begins in a beautifully intoxicating fashion via outrageously beautiful visuals that are executed throughout in astounding monochrome from director ,and first time credited cinematographer, Alfonso Cuaron. Primarily enforcing slow pans that encapsulate the broader...
It physically pains me to report that Alfonso Cuaron’s long anticipated follow up to his 2013 critically acclaimed masterpiece Gravity is, unfortunately, a flat and ever prolonged emotional dud. A one-hundred and thirty-minute passionate project that’s based on Cuaron’s own childhood, Roma follows a family and their maid that slowly but surely unfolds its flush hand in a sad manner of a placid, albeit weighted emotional substance that fleets in such an elongated and weak fashion.
Roma begins in a beautifully intoxicating fashion via outrageously beautiful visuals that are executed throughout in astounding monochrome from director ,and first time credited cinematographer, Alfonso Cuaron. Primarily enforcing slow pans that encapsulate the broader...
- 12/19/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Yalitza Aparicio as Cleo, Marco Graf as Pepe, Carlos Peralta Jacobson as Paco, and Daniela Demesa as Sofi in Roma, written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón.
Image by Alfonso Cuarón.
Oscar-winning writer/director Alfonso Cuaron crafts his most personal film, a realist drama set in 1970s Mexico against a backdrop of civil unrest about the struggles of a family and a beloved housekeeper named Cleo. The Mexican-born Cuaron both wrote and directed this touching drama, a kind of love letter to the women who raised him.
Shot in lush black-and-white, the focus at the center of this film is a young indigenous woman named Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) who works as a maid/nanny for an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s. Roma is the name of the neighborhood of gated homes where the family lives. Cleo works hard, does her household chores but her real value is in...
Image by Alfonso Cuarón.
Oscar-winning writer/director Alfonso Cuaron crafts his most personal film, a realist drama set in 1970s Mexico against a backdrop of civil unrest about the struggles of a family and a beloved housekeeper named Cleo. The Mexican-born Cuaron both wrote and directed this touching drama, a kind of love letter to the women who raised him.
Shot in lush black-and-white, the focus at the center of this film is a young indigenous woman named Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) who works as a maid/nanny for an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s. Roma is the name of the neighborhood of gated homes where the family lives. Cleo works hard, does her household chores but her real value is in...
- 12/14/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sneak Peek "Roma", written, directed and filmed by Alfonso Cuarón ("Gravity") starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Enoc Leaño and Daniel Valtierra, streaming on Netflix December 14, 2018:
"...in the early 1970's, based on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City, the film follows the life of a middle class family and its live-in housekeeper..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Roma"....
"...in the early 1970's, based on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City, the film follows the life of a middle class family and its live-in housekeeper..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Roma"....
- 12/14/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
“Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón’s black-and-white childhood remembrance of things past, opens with a mesmerizing four-minute credit sequence: the mopping of a courtyard. The flow of foamy water establishes a rhythm as well as a cleansing metaphor about life and memory.
“And that flow started to dictate the other stuff,” said Cuarón, who served as editor with co-editor Adam Gough. “We went from one thing to the other, sculpting as we were going, moment by moment, following the flow.
“But I had to be discriminating because I have such long heads and such long tails, and I’m talking sometimes two minutes longer than what you see in the film. It was the dance of how far I take this versus how early or late I start these things.”
Cuarón meticulously recreated his childhood through recollections of his family, his house, and his neighborhood in Mexico City during the turbulence of...
“And that flow started to dictate the other stuff,” said Cuarón, who served as editor with co-editor Adam Gough. “We went from one thing to the other, sculpting as we were going, moment by moment, following the flow.
“But I had to be discriminating because I have such long heads and such long tails, and I’m talking sometimes two minutes longer than what you see in the film. It was the dance of how far I take this versus how early or late I start these things.”
Cuarón meticulously recreated his childhood through recollections of his family, his house, and his neighborhood in Mexico City during the turbulence of...
- 12/3/2018
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
You rarely see such an intimate tale painted on such a large canvas. In telling a story based on his own youth, filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón has made an epic movie about the women in his life. If that sounds a bit unusual, once you see the movie, it all makes sense. This is a flick that’s a tribute to these women, told in a specific yet universal way. Ever since the fall film festival circuit began, it has been getting almost exclusively raves. I’m here to continue that goos word of mouth. This is one of the best foreign works of the year, and just quality cinema in general. Netflix will be streaming this one next month, but it’ll be doing a limited run in theaters starting this Wednesday. It deserves to be seen on the big screen too. The film is a period piece drama, set in the early 1970’s.
- 11/20/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
"Roma is cinema at its purest and most human." Netflix has unveiled another new official trailer for Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón's latest film, titled simply Roma. This B&W feature premiered at the Venice Film Festival won the top prize there, the Golden Lion. Roma is a story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s. Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, and Andy Cortés. This profound film is described as "an intimate, gut-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the ways, small and large, one family maintains its balance in a time of personal, social and political strife." Reviews for been effusive, calling it another one of Cuaron's great masterpieces. The story focuses around the maid, a woman named Cleo who works for this big family. A must watch film.
- 11/13/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sneak Peek "Roma", written, directed and filmed by Alfonso Cuarón. Cuarón starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Enoc Leaño and Daniel Valtierra, streaming on netflix December 14, 2018:
"...in the early 1970's, based on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City, the film follows the life of a middle class family and its live-in housekeeper..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Roma"....
"...in the early 1970's, based on Cuarón's upbringing in Mexico City, the film follows the life of a middle class family and its live-in housekeeper..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Roma"....
- 10/22/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Lff 2018 Roma Review Roma (2018) Film Review from the 62nd Annual London Film Festival, a movie directed by Alfonso Cuaron, starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Fernando Grediaga, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Carlos Peralta, Nancy Garcia, Diego Di Cort and Veronica Garcia. Roma is gorgeous to behold from the first frame to the last. Alfonso [...]
Continue reading: Film Review: Roma: Life as Film Through the Eyes of a Master [Lff 2018]...
Continue reading: Film Review: Roma: Life as Film Through the Eyes of a Master [Lff 2018]...
- 10/15/2018
- by Deyan Angelov
- Film-Book
The Venice Film Festival closed its 75th year Sept. 8, and already the industry is abuzz with predictions of awards to come. The stalwart film festival, this year hosted by Italian actor Michele Riondino, has welcomed the biggest and brightest of the film business to Lido ever since 1932. Guillermo del Toro, who won the Golden Lion prize last year for his film “The Shape of Water,” a Fox Searchlight production that went on to take home four Academy Awards, headed the 2018 jury. The coveted Golden Lion award went to director Alfonso Cuarón for his newest project, “Roma.” Cuarón’s connections to the Venice Film Festival run deep; his last feature film, “Gravity,” opened at the fest in 2013, and he went on to win the Oscar for best director. He has also been nominated for the Golden Lion for his films “Y Tu Mamá También” in 2001 and “Children of Men” in 2006, and...
- 9/10/2018
- backstage.com
Title: Roma Director: Alfonso Cuarón Cast: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Carlos Peralta, Nancy García as Adela, Diego Di Cort. Academy Award winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón, presents a personal project to the 75th edition of la Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica di Venezia. ‘Roma’ is a black and white motion […]
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- 8/30/2018
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
"Time and Space constrain us, but they also define who we are, creating inexplicable bonds with the others that flow with us at the same time and through the same places." Netflix has revealed the first teaser trailer for Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón's latest film, titled simply Roma. This B&W feature will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in a few weeks, and is said to Cuarón's most personal work to date, taking us back to the community where he grew up in and the experiences from his childhood. Roma is a story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s. Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, and Andy Cortés. It's described as "an intimate, gut-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming portrait of the ways, small and large,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Top L to R: Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk, Jean-Luc Godard - The Image Book, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Paweł Pawlikowski - Cold War Bottom L to R: Jafar Panahi - 3 Faces, Paul Dano - Wildlife, Bi Gan - Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Olivier Assayas - Non-Fiction
27 additional films for the Main Slate program of the 56th New York Film Festival including Christian Petzold's Transit, Claire Denis' High Life, Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War, Christophe Honoré's Sorry Angel, and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters have been announced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center today. They will be joining the Opening Night selection, Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite, starring Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, and Emma Stone; Centerpiece - Alfonso Cuarón's Roma with Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, and Marco Graf; and Closing Night...
27 additional films for the Main Slate program of the 56th New York Film Festival including Christian Petzold's Transit, Claire Denis' High Life, Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War, Christophe Honoré's Sorry Angel, and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters have been announced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center today. They will be joining the Opening Night selection, Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite, starring Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, and Emma Stone; Centerpiece - Alfonso Cuarón's Roma with Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, and Marco Graf; and Closing Night...
- 8/7/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, shot by Benoît Delhomme Photo: Lily Gavin
Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, and starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh, with Oscar Isaac as Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Mathieu Amalric as Dr Gachet, Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux, and Mads Mikkelsen as The Priest has been announced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as the Closing Night selection of the 56th New York Film Festival. It joins Centerpiece Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and the Opening Night film, Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite.
New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, “At Eternity’s Gate is such a surprising film, for all kinds of reasons. Julian Schnabel makes use of the most up-to-date information about Vincent van Gogh, altering our accepted ideas.
Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate, co-written with Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg, and starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh, with Oscar Isaac as Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Mathieu Amalric as Dr Gachet, Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux, and Mads Mikkelsen as The Priest has been announced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center as the Closing Night selection of the 56th New York Film Festival. It joins Centerpiece Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and the Opening Night film, Yorgos Lanthimos's The Favourite.
New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said, “At Eternity’s Gate is such a surprising film, for all kinds of reasons. Julian Schnabel makes use of the most up-to-date information about Vincent van Gogh, altering our accepted ideas.
- 8/1/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is the Centerpiece selection of the 56th New York Film Festival Photo: Carlos Somonte / Netflix
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced on Wednesday that the Centerpiece selection of the 56th New York Film Festival will be Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Participant Media, starring Yalitza Aparicio with Marina de Tavira, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, and Marco Graf.
The Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair is Kent Jones. Dennis Lim, Fslc Director of Programming and Florence Almozini, Fslc Associate Director of Programming join Kent as the selection committee members.
Kent Jones: “I was absolutely stunned by Roma from beginning to end—by the craftsmanship and the artistry of everyone involved, by the physical power and gravitational force of the images, by the realization that I was seeing something magical: a story of ongoing life grounded within the immensity and mystery of...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced on Wednesday that the Centerpiece selection of the 56th New York Film Festival will be Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, produced by Esperanto Filmoj and Participant Media, starring Yalitza Aparicio with Marina de Tavira, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, and Marco Graf.
The Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair is Kent Jones. Dennis Lim, Fslc Director of Programming and Florence Almozini, Fslc Associate Director of Programming join Kent as the selection committee members.
Kent Jones: “I was absolutely stunned by Roma from beginning to end—by the craftsmanship and the artistry of everyone involved, by the physical power and gravitational force of the images, by the realization that I was seeing something magical: a story of ongoing life grounded within the immensity and mystery of...
- 7/18/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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