Word: alfonso
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...Owen’s cousin responds, “I just don’t think about it.” Ignoring the realities of the world depicted in “Children of Men” might be the best recourse available. Directed and co-written by Alfonso Cuarón of “Y Tu Mama También” and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” fame, the film imagines a world in which women are no longer able to bear children. Based on P.D. James’ novel...
...production in this adult fable are expertly done, especially the visual and sound effects. Del Toro is one of three Mexican directors with Oscar-nominated films this year (the other two being Alejandro González Iñárritu with “Babel” and Alfonso Cuarón with “Children of Men”). Of the three films, “Pan’s Labyrinth” simultaneously has the most childlike thematic material and the most graphic violence. Minimalist-influenced music by composer Javier Navarrete, which builds on the theme...
...Mexico City. It simplifies matters that they are not in direct competition. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, who made Babel, is up for Best Picture and Best Director. Guillermo del Toro, writer-director of Pan's Labyrinth, has been nominated in the Foreign Film and Original Screenplay categories. Alfonso Cuarn, the director of Children of Men, could be onstage for Adapted Screenplay and Editing--and for Pan's Labyrinth too, should it win the Foreign award. Cuarn was one of the film's producers...
They're old friends, you see, each ready to lend a hand in the other's projects. They also encourage family and friends to join the fun. Cuarn's brother Carlos will soon direct a film starring Gael Garca Bernal and Diego Luna, the two lads from Alfonso's hit comedy Y tu mam tambin. Arriaga has written a true-life AIDS drama, The Dallas Buyer's Club, which is to star and be produced by a member of the Babel ensemble: Brad Pitt...
...Venice, the bubble popped, and neither star could save The Fountain from a death sentence of boos at both the critics' and the public screenings. The film was dismissed as an expensive waste of time (although another high-IQ sci-fi epic shown at Venice, Alfonso Cuaron's dystopic City of Men, was reported to have cost between $80 million and $150 million). Weisz, who earlier this year received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener and became a mother, seemed equally maternal in defense of her new movie. "I think it's wonderful that this film...