ROMA

Drama – 2018 – Mexico/USA – 135 Minutes – Netflix – In Spanish with English Subtitles – Rated R

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The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity, Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien), ROMA follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s.

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“Roma” had wrapped me in its spell that completely, it would be hard to imagine a more artful arthouse attraction. – NPR

‘Roma’ literally took my breath away. It is a masterwork by one of the world’s most versatile filmmakers, and will be justifiably praised as the best film of 2018. – Leonard Maltin

To see “Roma” is to be in awe of Cuaron’s gifts and to wonder how he does what he does. – San Francisco Chronicle

Just put the phone away, and allow yourself to submit to the serene, transcendent experience that is Roma. – Associated Press

It’s an expansive, emotional portrait of life buffeted by violent forces, and a masterpiece. – New York Times

An exhilarating masterpiece, Roma is at once quintessentially Mexican and profoundly universal. – Remezcla

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New York Times Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Masterpiece of Memory. Read full review here.

AT ETERNITY’S GATE

Biography/Drama – 2018 – UK/France/USA – 110 Minutes – CBS Films – PG-13

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Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh (Academy Award nominated Willem Dafoe) spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him. From Academy Award nominated director Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).

“This is a film about painting and a painter and their relationship to infinity. It is told by a painter. It contains what I felt were essential moments in his life, this is not the official history – it’s my version. One that I hope could make you closer to him.” – director Julian Schnabel

Starring Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric

The movie is not just a pleasure to watch, but actually puts forward some new ideas about van Gogh. – RogerEbert.com

An unbridled portrait of the painful but productive final years in the life of Vincent van Gogh, a role inhabited with the acrid lucidity of madness by Willem Dafoe. – The Hollywood Reporter

At Eternity’s Gate is a film made by an artist (“plates painter” Schnabel) less concerned with a painter, more with the way a painter saw the world. In its rupture from traditional biographical narratives, it does not merely stand out as unconventional biopic – it also comes close to resuscitating the idea of cinema as moving pictures. – The Film Stage

Any film could give you the gist of Van Gogh’s life story, but perhaps only this one can make you feel what it would be like to stand in a field with this brilliant mind, and watch him make magic out of scenery. – The Wrap

Schnabel, the director of “Before Night Falls” and “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” has stripped down his filmmaking in the most seductive way, all to achieve something audacious and elemental. He’s out to imagine what Vincent van Gogh was really like — to bask in van Gogh’s presence with an experiential, present-tense immediacy. The film’s vision of van Gogh is honest and incisive and, at the same time, unabashedly romantic. You might call it a portrait of the artist as the world’s first flower child. – Variety

Schnabel fuses form and content in a way that’s rarely attempted and even more rarely achieved; in risking the same derision with which Van Gogh was sometimes met, he transcends the limitations of the conventional biopic and creates something that feels genuinely new. Dafoe is inspired in the kind of performance that makes an actor being cast as a famous figure seem inevitable in hindsight. – IndieWire

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***1:10 pm show on Wednesday, December 19 will be played with open captions***

New York Times Review: An Exquisite Portrayal of van Gogh at Work

A magnificent Willem Dafoe stars in Julian Schnabel’s film, a work that Manohla Dargis calls “an argument for art.”

Read full review here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/movies/at-eternitys-gate-review.html