Roma, 2018. Written and Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Starring Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey, Carlos Peralta, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Nancy García García, Verónica García, Andy Cortés, Fernando Grediaga, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, José Manuel Guerrero Mendoza, and Latin Lover SYNOPSIS: A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family […]
Road to the Oscars 2019 – Can Roma win Best Picture?
In the week before the 91st Academy Awards are handed out, Tom Beasley takes a look at each Best Picture nominee and its chances of Oscars victory. Next, it’s the arguable frontrunner as Alfonso Cuaron delves into his own past with Roma… Films like Roma don’t win Oscars. No movie filmed in a language other […]
BAFTAs 2019: Roma won the top prize, but Olivia Colman won our hearts
Tom Beasley was at the glamorous BAFTAs ceremony last night on behalf of Flickering Myth. Here, he shares his take on the evening, the awards and that excruciating opening monologue… There were a lot of winners at the BAFTAs last night. Rami Malek cemented himself as the Best Actor frontrunner for the Oscars, The Favourite […]
Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma gets a new trailer and poster
With a little over two weeks to go until its limited theatrical release, a new trailer and poster have arrived online for Oscar-winning writer-director Alfonso Cuaron’s (Gravity, Children of Men) upcoming family drama Roma; check them out here… ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma […]
First poster for Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
Following the first trailer earlier in the week [watch it here], a new poster has arrived online for acclaimed filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron’s (Gravity, Children of Men) upcoming family drama Roma; take a look here… ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an […]
Netflix releases first trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma
Ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival later this month, Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron’s (Gravity, Children of Men) upcoming family drama Roma; watch it here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp_i7cnOgbQ ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighbourhood of Roma […]
Casey Affleck teams with Alfonso Cuaron for horror TV drama
According to Deadline, Anonymous Content is shopping around a new TV drama package which has Oscar-winning filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron attached to write and direct, with Academy Award-winning actor Casey Affleck on board to star. Although details are being kept under wraps, the site reports that the project is a horror, and tracks the origins of […]
Warner Bros. enlists Alfonso Cuaron to help with Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book movie
Faced with the critical and commercial success of Disney and director Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book, Warner Bros. has now enlisted some Oscar-winning assistance for its own take on the Rudyard Kipling classic. According to Deadline, the studio has brought in Gravity helmer Alfonso Cuaron to offer notes on the movie, and to see if […]
The Biggest Oscar Snubs
Henry Bevan on the biggest Oscar snubs… You can never escape the Oscars. Even once the winner has been crowned, publications start talking about the next crop of hopefuls. There have already been vague articles on this already and people are already talking about Black Panther’s chances at becoming the first superhero movie to get […]