Alfonso Cuarón’s labor of love will go down as having changed the delivery norm for top-quality feature motion pictures: unlike most foreign films before, millions had a chance to see the highly-advertised show on Netflix, even if the real life-changing way to see it was the limited 70mm theatrical run. Cuarón’s ode to his upbringing in Mexico City is a rich slice of nostalgia and ethnography, made warmly human by the performance of Yalitza Aparicio. Viewers ‘waiting for something to happen’ will miss the point entirely. Italian neorealism was never as intense or as fascinating. Criterion’s extras are really arresting, especially the featurette explaining the near-miraculous post production process.
Roma
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1014
1928 / B&w / 2:39 widescreen / 135 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date , 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Nancy García García, Jorge Antonio Guerrero.
Cinematography: Alfonso Cuarón
Film Editors: Adam Gough,...
Roma
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1014
1928 / B&w / 2:39 widescreen / 135 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date , 2020 / 39.95
Starring: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Nancy García García, Jorge Antonio Guerrero.
Cinematography: Alfonso Cuarón
Film Editors: Adam Gough,...
- 2/11/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
“Cinema at its best allows us to tear down walls and builds bridges to other cultures,” said Alfonso Cuaron in a timely and graceful speech this evening as he accepted the Golden Globe for his Best Foreign Language Film winner Roma. With the Globe, the Mexican director adds to his haul of prizes for the intimate black-and-white reflection on his childhood and the women who surrounded him growing up. This was Cuaron’s second Golden Globe after a win for directing Gravity in 2014 — and he quickly followed it up tonight with another Best Director victory for Roma.
Owing to a quirk of Hollywood Foreign Press Association rules, Roma was not eligible for the Best Film category tonight, but is expected to score nominations in multiple races at the Oscars. The wins tonight are big for Netflix who Cuaron thanked from the stage as a beaming Ted Sarandos sat with the rest of the Roma crew.
Owing to a quirk of Hollywood Foreign Press Association rules, Roma was not eligible for the Best Film category tonight, but is expected to score nominations in multiple races at the Oscars. The wins tonight are big for Netflix who Cuaron thanked from the stage as a beaming Ted Sarandos sat with the rest of the Roma crew.
- 1/7/2019
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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
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
When Alfonso Cuarón began casting the role of Cleo, a domestic worker closely based on Liboria “Libo” Rodríguez, who raised him from the time he was 9 months old, the director embarked on an exhaustive search throughout Mexico. He eventually found the woman to play Cleo — 24-year-old schoolteacher Yalitza Aparicio — in the southern town of Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, the same state where Rodríguez grew up. It was the first film for Aparicio, who spoke to Variety about getting the chance to star in a movie and accompany it all over the world.
Did you ever give any thought to being an actress before “Roma”?
No. I never imagined being a part of a project like this.
What was your first reaction when Alfonso Cuarón told you he wanted you to star in his film?
There were mixed feelings. I couldn’t believe it. After every screen test, my family would ask how it went,...
Did you ever give any thought to being an actress before “Roma”?
No. I never imagined being a part of a project like this.
What was your first reaction when Alfonso Cuarón told you he wanted you to star in his film?
There were mixed feelings. I couldn’t believe it. After every screen test, my family would ask how it went,...
- 10/23/2018
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Variety Film + TV
From the very first shot of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma — a close-up of a floor in a hallway, the sound of soapy water splashing in the background before washing over the tiles — you can sense that something special is about to happen. It’s not just the lack of opening fanfare in the soundtrack as the art deco credits roll (there will be no score; the only music you’ll hear will be the occasional song drifting out of a radio and the cacophonic symphony of street life). It’s not just the black-and-white cinematography,...
- 9/11/2018
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
"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
Now that a Venice Film Festival world premiere has been set for Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, the Oscar-winning director has tweeted a first look tease at what is billed as his most personal work yet. Written by Cuaron and produced by his Esperanto with Participant Media, the movie was confirmed today for an in competition Lido berth five years after Gravity blasted off at the festival — and a few months after Roma was not included in the Cannes lineup owing to a dispute between the fest and Netflix. The movie is also screening as the New York Film Festival’s Centerpiece in October.
On his Twitter feed today, the director wrote, “There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals” with a video of water washing over tiles (see it below).
Roma is a Netflix release, one of six titles from the...
On his Twitter feed today, the director wrote, “There are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals” with a video of water washing over tiles (see it below).
Roma is a Netflix release, one of six titles from the...
- 7/25/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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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