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Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space: Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity
By Adam Nayman | | Cinema Scope Online, Currency
By Adam Nayman [SPOILERS, as they say, below.] In space, apparently, no one can hear you scream “Cut!” That’s the sensibility of Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, which unravels its tale of two astronauts stranded outside their damaged shuttle in a series of gossamer-glossy long takes, with perilously dangling (digital) camera movements courtesy Cuarón’s house DP Emmanuel…
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TIFF 2013 | Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón, US/UK)—Special Presentation
By Alexandra Zawia | | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2013
By Alexandra Zawia To start with the obvious, the visuals in Gravity are impeccable, which is not due simply to the presence of virtuoso cinematographer Emmanuel Luzbeki—Alfonso Cuarón understands the spatial possibilities of the frame. Characteristically using reflections to add depth to an image, he finds himself an a priori amplified playground in a film…
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By cscope2 | | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2011
Cinema Scope 48 Preview: Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, US)—Special Presentations By Andrew Tracy If “indie-ness” conveys a certain generic intimation unto itself, some of the most celebrated recent independent films have also strategically adopted broader generic tactics, usually related to violence. As sensation, whether shockingly enacted or tautly withheld, has started to become…
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