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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #51. Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men was among the best films of 2006. Emmanuel Lubezki is among the top three working DPs in the business. The last time he wore a spacesuit (Solaris) Clooney wasn’t out of his place. The big unknown: was Sandra Bullock right choice for the co-lead? The highest “studio” project on our top 100 list, this merges auteur with the Hollywood system.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 6, 2012

#51. Gravity

Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer(s): Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón and Rodrigo García
Producers: Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman
Distributor: Warner Bros.

The Gist: Co-written by Alfonso and his son, Jonas Cuarón, this centers on a team of astronauts — including the lead medical engineer and a talkative “mile-a-minute” veteran astronaut — who are asked to abandon their fix-it Hubble telescope mission and quickly reboard their ship after a sudden implosion of Russian satellites triggers a debris avalanche in orbit that threatens their immediate safety. It’s basically a very high concept sci-fi thriller and a nonstop race for our protagonists to get back to earth…(more)

Cast: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock

List Worthy Reasons…: Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men was among the best films of 2006. Emmanuel Lubezki is among the top three working DPs in the business. The last time he wore a spacesuit (Solaris) Clooney wasn’t out of his place. The big unknown: was Sandra Bullock right choice for the co-lead? The highest “studio” project on our top 100 list, this merges auteur with the Hollywood system.

Release Date/Status?: Wide release on November 21st. Could this be an AFI Film Festival or NYFF entry?

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).