Tag: Roma
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San Sebastian Festival: Isaki Lacuesta’s ‘Between Two Waters’ Wins Golden Shell
San Sebastian — Isaki Lacuesta’s “Between Two Waters” won big at San Sebastian Saturday night, taking its top Golden Shell, the second time the Catalan director has won the award, after 2011’s “The Double Steps.”Otherwise, the big winner of the night was Benjamin Naishtat’s covert violence thriller “Rojo,” which took director, actor (Dario Grandinetti) and…
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‘Roma’ Gets Company: Why the Foreign Language Oscar Race Is Heating Up — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast
Ever since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival, “Roma” has been the sensation of the fall season. It won Venice’s Golden Lion, wowed critics from Telluride to Tiff, and stands to continue that crowdpleasing trajectory at the New York Film Festival. As Netflix enters awards season with an Oscar campaign off to the races,…
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‘Roma’ Is Mexico’s Foreign Language Film Entry But Who Else Is In the Mix?
In a surprise to no one, Mexico announced it was submitting Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” as the nation’s submission for the Foreign Language Film Oscar. This was a foregone conclusion months ago and was even more of a lock after the Netflix title earned rave reviews at the first three fall film festivals as well as…
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Barry Jenkins Praises ‘Roma’ as ‘F*cking Glorious,’ Says Alfonso Cuarón Is ‘Operating at Peak Performance Level’
Following its Golden Lion victory at the Venice Film Festival, Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” traveled to the Toronto International Film Festival and earned even more overwhelming reactions. Barry Jenkins attended the “Roma” TIFF premiere following the debut screenings of his own drama, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” just days earlier. While the “Moonlight” Oscar winner has…
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Italian Filmmakers, Exhibitors Slam Venice Biennale as Netflix “Marketing Vehicle”
Not everyone is thrilled by the awards given out in Venice by president Guillermo del Toro and his jury.Netflix came away Saturday night with its first major European film festival award for a narrative film, with Alfonso Cuaron taking the top prize, the Golden Lion, for his semi-autobiographical black and white film Roma. The streamer…
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“Roma” roars to a Golden Lion win at Venice and “The Favourite” is royally rewarded as is star Olivia Colman
Alfonso Cuaron claimed the coveted Golden Lion at the 75th Venice International Film Festival for his much-lauded “Roma,” a semi-biographical black-and-white neo-realist depiction of middle-class Mexico in the ’70s. He previously launched “Gravity” at the same event in 2013, which would win seven Academy Awards.What made this year’s moment extra-sweet was that jury president and…
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Venice Film Festival: Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Roma’ Wins Golden Lion
Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” a black-and-white drama drawn from the director’s memories of growing up in Mexico City in the early 1970s which marks his return to Spanish-language filmmaking, is the winner of the Venice Film festival’s Golden Lion.Winners Of The 75Th Venice Film Festival Official Awards Read full article
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Toronto Film Review: Chris Pine in ‘Outlaw King’
Someone at Netflix must love movies, because they keep on making them: massive, large-canvas sagas that beg to be witnessed on the big screen — like Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” (shot on 65mm) and Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “The Irishman” (whose budgeted has reportedly swollen past $140 million) — even if virtually everyone who does see them…
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Make way for the matriarchy – has #MeToo changed the movies?
Are a clutch of new films directed by men but featuring powerful women a sign that cinema’s gender landscape is being reshaped or mere opportunism?With just one female-directed film out of 21 in its competition, the Venice film festival drew criticism from women’s movements and the wider film industry. However, in front of the camera,…
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‘Roma,’ ‘First Man,’ ‘Favourite’ & Nicole Kidman Find An Oscar Spark At Telluride
The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival begins tomorrow, but the impact of last weekend’s Telluride Film Festival is still being felt for those playing the awards season game. As noted numerous times over the years, there are many more voting Academy members that attend Telluride than Venice, Toronto or Nyff and it’s one of the…