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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

BAFTA Awards Nominations “Roma” Seven - “The Favourite” Leads with Twelve

By José Alberto Hermosillo
BAFTA AWARDS
BAFTA, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts, unveils its nominations. Netflix and the producers of the Mexican film “Roma” couldn’t be any happier to have an unprecedented seven nods to the prestigious BAFTA awards for a black & white movie, in Spanish and Mixteco, without movie stars. Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” leads with twelve.

British director Steve McQueen’s “Widows” got only one: Viola Davis, Best Leading Actress. British production “Mary Queen of Scots” got three: Supporting Actress Margot Robbie, Costume Design, and Makeup & Hair.

The British historical comedy “The Favourite” has the most, twelve including four individual nominations for its director Yorgos Lanthimos.

Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón also has six personal nominations including Best Director, Best Editing, Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Best Film, and Best Film Not in English Language (foreign). Also, the Oscar winner Emilio Caballero and Bárbara Enríquez have a Best Production Design nod. That makes a total of seven for Roma.

The American “musical” “A Star is Born” has seven nominations including five personal nominations for Bradley Cooper: Best Film, Director, Actor, Original Music, and Screenplay Adaptation.

Polish international sensation “Cold War” has four nominations, including three personal nods for its director Pawel Pawlikowski (“Ida”).

Paradoxically, the British awards have no British directors nominated for Best Director. This year they chose: Pawel Pawlikowski from Poland, Yorgos Lanthimos from Greece, Alfonso Cuarón from Mexico, and two Americans, Bradley Cooper for “A Star is Born” and Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman.”

BEST FILM
  • BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele
  • THE FAVOURITE Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday
  • GREEN BOOK Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler
  • ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
  • A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor

 OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
  • BEAST Michael Pearce, Kristian Brodie, Lauren Dark, Ivana MacKinnon
  • BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Bryan Singer, Graham King, Anthony McCarten
  • THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
  • McQUEEN Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Andee Ryder, Nick Taussig
  • STAN & OLLIE Jon S. Baird, Faye Ward, Jeff Pope
  • YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Lynne Ramsay, Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, James Wilson

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
  • APOSTASY Daniel Kokotajlo (Writer/Director)
  • BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)
  • A CAMBODIAN SPRING Chris Kelly (Writer/Director/Producer)
  • PILI Leanne Welham (Writer/Director), Sophie Harman (Producer)
  • RAY & LIZ Richard Billingham (Writer/Director), Jacqui Davies (Producer)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  • CAPERNAUM Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar
  • COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski, Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska
  • DOGMAN Matteo Garrone
  • ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez
  • SHOPLIFTERS Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kaoru Matsuzaki

DOCUMENTARY
  • FREE SOLO Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
  • McQUEEN Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui
  • RBG Julie Cohen, Betsy West
  • THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD Peter Jackson
  • THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS Tim Wardle, Grace Hughes-Hallett, Becky Read

ANIMATED FILM
  • INCREDIBLES 2 Brad Bird, John Walker
  • ISLE OF DOGS Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson
  • SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord

DIRECTOR
  • BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee
  • COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski
  • THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos
  • ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
  • A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
  • COLD WAR Janusz Głowacki, Paweł Pawlikowski
  • THE FAVOURITE Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara
  • GREEN BOOK Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga
  • ROMA Alfonso Cuarón
  • VICE Adam McKay

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
  • BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott
  • CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty
  • FIRST MAN Josh Singer
  • IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Barry Jenkins
  • A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth

LEADING ACTRESS
  • GLENN CLOSE The Wife
  • LADY GAGA A Star Is Born
  • MELISSA McCARTHY Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite
  • VIOLA DAVIS Widows

LEADING ACTOR
  • BRADLEY COOPER A Star Is Born
  • CHRISTIAN BALE Vice
  • RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody
  • STEVE COOGAN Stan & Ollie
  • VIGGO MORTENSEN Green Book

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • AMY ADAMS Vice
  • CLAIRE FOY First Man
  • EMMA STONE The Favourite
  • MARGOT ROBBIE Mary Queen of Scots
  • RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite

SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • ADAM DRIVER BlacKkKlansman
  • MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book
  • RICHARD E. GRANT Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • SAM ROCKWELL Vice
  • TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Beautiful Boy

ORIGINAL MUSIC
  • BLACKkKLANSMAN Terence Blanchard
  • IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Nicholas Britell
  • ISLE OF DOGS Alexandre Desplat
  • MARY POPPINS RETURNS Marc Shaiman
  • A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson

CINEMATOGRAPHY
  • BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Newton Thomas Sigel
  • COLD WAR Łukasz Żal
  • THE FAVOURITE Robbie Ryan
  • FIRST MAN Linus Sandgren
  • ROMA Alfonso Cuarón

EDITING
  • BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Ottman
  • THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Mavropsaridis
  • FIRST MAN Tom Cross
  • ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough
  • VICE Hank Corwin

PRODUCTION DESIGN
  • FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
  • THE FAVOURITE Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton
  • FIRST MAN Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas
  • MARY POPPINS RETURNS John Myhre, Gordon Sim
  • ROMA Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enríquez

COSTUME DESIGN
  • THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS Mary Zophres
  • BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Julian Day
  • THE FAVOURITE Sandy Powell
  • MARY POPPINS RETURNS Sandy Powell
  • MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Alexandra Byrne

Makeup & HAIR
  • BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Mark Coulier, Jan Sewell
  • THE FAVOURITE Nadia Stacey
  • MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Jenny Shircore
  • STAN & OLLIE Mark Coulier, Jeremy Woodhead
  • VICE Nominees TBC

SOUND
  • BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst
  • FIRST MAN Mary H. Ellis, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor
  • MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT Gilbert Lake, James H. Mather, Christopher Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith
  • A QUIET PLACE Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Procter, Ethan Van der Ryn
  • A STAR IS BORN Steve Morrow, Alan Robert Murray, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
  • AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Kelly Port, Dan Sudick
  • BLACK PANTHER Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick
  • FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz, David Watkins
  • FIRST MAN Ian Hunter, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, J.D. Schwalm
  • READY PLAYER ONE Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett, David Shirk

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
  • I’M OK Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison, Jelena Popović
  • MARFA Gary McLeod, Myles McLeod
  • ROUGHHOUSE Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom

BRITISH SHORT FILM
  • 73 COWS Alex Lockwood
  • BACHELOR, 38 Angela Clarke
  • THE BLUE DOOR Ben Clark, Megan Pugh, Paul Taylor
  • THE FIELD Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay
  • WALE Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers

EE RISING STAR AWARD
  • BARRY KEOGHAN
  • CYNTHIA ERIVO
  • JESSIE BUCKLEY
  • LAKEITH STANFIELD
  • LETITIA WRIGHT
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Friday, September 21, 2018

Roma and Ten New Mexican Trailers

By José Alberto Hermosillo
Roma and Ten New Mexican Trailers
From Sundance to Berlin - from Toronto to Morelia - from Guadalajara to Venice and Los Angeles, the richness of Mexican Cinema is generating multiple awards and rave reviews in the international festival circuit. 

This year, besides "Roma," the most recent work of the Oscar® winner director Alfonso Cuarón ("Gravity"), many more award-winning Mexican directors have accomplished beautiful works of fiction, enduring documentaries, and impressive animations --- some already a local box-office hits. 

While the films Made in Mexico are captivating audiences in festivals around the globe, the projects are facing the headache of distribution and accessibility to a broader audience. 

 For many who would like to watch those remarkable pieces on the Big Screen, we leave a taste of another big wave of buen Cine Mexicano.

The year 2018 could be considered by many, one of the best years in Mexican Cinema. Here, we present the trailers of some of those excellent films worth your time:

"Roma"
Roma (2018)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
(Y tú mamá también, Children of Men)
Location: Ciudad de México
The Oscar winner director returns to his hometown to recount his most intimate and visceral history about growing up during the early 1970s in a country where politics, justice, and class struggle is reflected in stunning black & white cinematography.

La Negrada (2018)
Directed by Jorge Pérez Solano
Locations: Oaxaca, Mexico
The first controversial Mexican work of fiction relates to Afro-Mexicans from the Pacific Coast. This powerful film shows the diversity in skin tones of people hidden in the remote communities of Mexico. It premiered at the FICG 33 (Festival Internacional de Cine de Guadalajara).

Rush Hour (2018)
Directed by Luciana Kaplan
Locations: Los Angeles, Mexico City, Istambul
This ambitious documentary shows that commuting is tough. It reveals the frustration of people from three different countries who sit in traffic for hours. This film won Best Documentary at the Morelia International Film Festival.

Cuernavaca (2017)
Directed by Alejandro Andrade
Locations: Ciudad de México, Cuernavaca
The family drama starts when Andy’s mother gets killed. At age eleven, he moves in with hysterical his grandmother (Carmen Maura) in Cuernavaca. In the absence of his alcoholic father, Andy will find emotional support in the sneaky and sexual gardener.

Time Share (2018)
Directed by Sebastián Hofmann
Location: Acapulco
A surreal story set in a dystopian universe of a paradisiac resort on Mexico's Pacific coast.
The conflict is generated when two families, ready for leisure, are placed in the same bungalow by an invisible all-mighty mastermind who wants to make their lives miserable.
This work of fiction is a direct consequence of one of the most critical industries in Mexico: tourism. 
Winner of the Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival.

 
Museo (2018)
Directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios
Locations: Ciudad de México, Acapulco, Chiapas.
The film, based on the most massive heist in Mexico’s history where Gael Garcia Bernal and Leonardo Ortigriz (Güeros) will burgle the World’s Largest Archeologic Museum. The crime that shocked an entire Nation was followed by thousands of concerned citizens who saw their past desecrated. 
Winner - Silver Bear Best Screenplay, Berlin Film Festival, 2018.

"Our Time" / "Nuestro Tiempo"
Nuestro Tiempo (2018)
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
(Japón, Silent Light)
Location: Altiplano
A film that juxtaposes its artsy look with its drama.  Due to the wife’s infidelity in the countryside, the marriage crumbles. The enduring love triangle premieres at the 75th Venice Film Festival.

The Eternal Feminine (2017)
Directed by Natalia Beristaín
Location: Ciudad de México
Rosario Castellanos was one of the most prominent females writers in the 1950’s. The biopic reflects Rosario’s most crucial moments. While teaching college, she empowers women, as her marriage and personal life collapses. 
Actress Karina Gini won the Silver Ariel (Mexican Oscar) for Best Actress. This film is also the winner of the Audience Award at the Morelia International Film Festival.  

Guerrero (2017)
Directed by Ludovic Bonleux
Location: Estado de Guerrero
We have never seen the War on Drugs up-close and personal as it shows in this film. Between the Narco and a corrupt government, the inhabitants of a small community realize their lives are trapped. Thousands vanish, and even more, are left orphans. 
The controversial documentary won the Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2018.

Mamacita (2018)
Directed by José Pablo Estrada Torrescano
Location: Ciudad de México
Before becoming a film director, José Pablo promises to his glamorous grandmother, Mamacita, to make a movie about her life. When he finishes film school, he returns to fulfill that vow. In this documentary, he uncovers personal secrets, obsessions, and lies of the Mexican high-society, which includes those of his beloved grandmother. 
Official Selection Los Angeles Film Festival 2018.

Ana y Bruno (2017)
Directed by Carlos Carrera
(The Crime of Father Amaro)
Ana and her imaginary friend Bruno, plus a bunch of weird and cool characters, gear up for the adventure to rescue someone dear to her heart. It took ten years to produce this beautiful animated feature that Guillermo del Toro is calling “Pure gold.” 
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Friday, September 14, 2018

“Roma” is Mexico's Official Entry to the 91st Academy Awards®

By José Alberto Hermosillo
Roma is Mexico's Official Entry to the Oscars® 2019.  www.FestivalinLA.com
“Roma” was the Golder Bear winner at the 75th Venice Film Festival directed by Alfonso Cuarón and produced by Netflix. It is selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, as it was expected,

Películas inscritas Goya y Oscar 2019

Last month, the Mexican Academy of Cinematography released a shortlist of twelve films, including: 

The animation “El Angel en el Reloj” by Miguel Angel Uriegas, “El Buquinista” by Gibran Bazán, “El Club de los Insómnes” by Sergio Goyri Álvarez, the documentary “The Devil’s Freedom” by Everardo González, the biopic “Eternal Feminine/Los Adioses” by Natalia Beristaín, “Everything Else” by Natalia Almada, “The Gaze of the Sea” by Jose Álvarez, “Las Tinieblas” by Daniel Castro Zimbrón; the winner of Best Screenplay at Berlin Film Festival “Museo” by Alonso Ruizpalacios, “Roma” by Alfonso Cuarón, “Tigers Are Not Afraid” by Cannes winner Issa López; the Sundance winner “Time Share” by Sebastián Hofmann, and last year’s LA Film Festival winner “El Vigilante” by Diego Ross.
The Mexican film is generating rave reviews since its premiere at Venezia 75. Then, Telluride, Toronto, and soon NYFF announced as a Centerpiece.

At the Toronto International Film Festival, the “Moonlight” Oscar winner director, Barry Jenkins, after attending the premiere, wrote on his tweeter account, “Yeah, ‘Roma’ is f…glorious.” He added, “It is so wonderful to see an artist operating at the peak of the performance level of such a personal, vigorous piece. The aesthetic is both personal and political here. The aesthetic is wielded to a wonderfully emotive, devasting effect.”

Actor Gael Garcia Bernal wrote: “‘Roma’ is a marvelous film. I remember the movie as if it was my memory as if we knew this movie always existed. I can’t stop thinking about it, and to acknowledge the affection and dimension that every moment has. Gracias, Alfonso Cuarón.”

Film critic Carlos Aguilar: “I’m speechless. Calling ‘Roma’ a sublime masterpiece barely begins to describe what I saw & how I feel. Tears & goosebumps throughout. I’m filled with nostalgia for Mexico City, an immense love for everyone involved, and so much pride for the country that made me who I am.” 

Also of competing for Best Foreign Language Film, "Roma" looks very strong in other categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, cinematography, and some in the acting too.

If the nostalgic, black & white film set in the 1970's in Mexico City continues its ascending trajectory, "Roma" will be the first film in Spanish to ever be nominated for Best Picture. "Traffic" and "Babel" were partially spoken in the Cervantes language, English, Japanese, and Arabic.

Selecting Alfonso Cuarón's “Roma” by the members of the Mexican Academy will give Mexico the strong possibility to win for the first time the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film after eight Oscar nominations.

1. “Macario” by Roberto Gavaldón, 1960.
2. “The Important Man/Ánimas Trujano” by Ismael Rodríguez, 1961.
3. “Tlayucan” by Luis Alcoriza, 1962.
4. “Letter from Marucia/Actas de Marucia” by Miguel Litín, 1975.
5. “Amores Perros” by Alejandro G. Iñárrity, 2000.
6. “El crimen del padre Amaro” by Carlos Carrera, 2002.
7. “Pan’s Labyrinth/El Laberinto del Fauno” by Guillermo del Toro, 2007.
8. “Biutiful” by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2011.
Alfonso Cuarón, José Alberto Hermosillo.


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