#cuarón

Ho approfittato di questo sabato arancione per vedermi ROMA di Alfonso Cuarón.

“No image from this year quicker imprinted itself on my heart than that of Yalitza Aparicio’s Cleo sitting upright in a hotel room bed with a coy Mona Lisa smile arched across her mouth, taking closely-guarded pleasure in her suitor’s stark-naked martial arts presentation in the beginning of Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA. This new love will soon turn against Cleo, but for now, she is just content to bask in its raw and immediate intimacy, as are we.” — Matthew Eng

All hail the trailblazing Yalitza Aparicio, an Oscar nominee for her brilliant and powerful acting debut in Alfonso Cuarón’s ROMA! She is now the first Indigenous woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

30 Memorable Moments from Great Performances of 2018

TEN REASON I HATE “GRAVITY”

I mentioned to a friend that I enjoyed Brad Pitt’s new movie “Ad Astra”. He replied, “I put it above interstellar but not as good as gravity or Martian.”

“Gravity” was a movie I long ago put out of my mind, but when he mentioned it, all the reasons I hated it came flooding back.

First I will say that the film had a great sound mix. But I don’t enjoy movies for their Foley.

The film opens with George Clooney’s character wasting furl doing cartwheels in outer space trying to break a stupid record; doesn’t he know resources in space out limited? An of course following Chekhov’s rule about wasting fuel - that mistake will come back to bite him in the ass.

Next Sandra Bullock’s character is working on the Hubble Telescope. A warning sounds that a disaster is eminent and Clooney orders her to stop. No, she says, give me another minute. I think that happens at least twice - WTF? Didn’t they train her to follow orders at NASA?

Then later, Clooney is starting to drift out into space (no more fuel!) and Bullock and he are connected by some debris. Based on the laws of physics in outer space, the slightest tug should have pulled Clooney back - but nope! Even though the film billed itself as scientifically accurate - it wasn’t.

When Bullock finally reaches the safety of a capsule she strips like Barbarella to reveal a cute set of athletic bra and panties - but astronauts wear elaborate longjohns (and diapers during space walks) under their space suits to regulate the temperature. But that wouldn’t have looked sexy on Bullock.

As Bullock tries to find safety, she travels from the Hubble Telescope to the international space stations, then to a Chinese Space station. The movie suggests that all three are at the relative same distance from Earth. In fact, the Chinese Station orbits approximately 180 miles above Earth, the International Space Station approximately 250 miles above Earth, and the Hubble approximately 330 miles above Earth. So much for scientific accuracy!

Like the Melodramas of the silent film era (Perils of Pauline) Bullock encounter one disaster after another: space shuttle hit by debris, Clooney dies, the escape craft on the international station is in usable; the station is destroyed, at the Chinese station it gets damaged by debris BUT just in time Bullock is able to get in the reentry capsule, but on the way down there’s another fire, then in Earth she lands in a lake and almost drowns!!!

Bullock’s character is a fucking jinxed - bring disaster to everything she touches.

Then there’s this bullshit quote from director Cuarón describing the final scene: "She's in these murky waters almost like an amniotic fluid or a primordial soup, in which you see amphibians swimming. She crawls out of the water, not unlike early creatures in evolution. And then she goes on all fours. And after going on all fours she's a bit curved until she is completely erect. It was the evolution of life in one, quick shot".

“I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.”

“What matters is the work, what matters are the films. The rest are just embellishments that surround cinema.”