A blog about 3D cinema

Alfonso Cuarón's upcoming 3D film Gravity has critics spellbound, and looks to be this year's "Must-See 3D Film". Set miles above Earth, the film stars George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as a pair of astronauts who... have to deal with gravity after a high-speed encounter with space debris. Gravity  premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this month, and immediately started generating Oscar-buzz from the dumbstruck audience. It sounds like cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki 's first 3D outing is a doozy, technically-speaking. Breathless reviewers have described long, unbroken, takes that last in the range of 10 - 15 minutes. HitFix's Drew McWeeny appropriately summed up most people's reactions : "It is increasingly rare that I look at an effects-heavy film and don't know immediately how they did it. With Gravity , I'm not even sure what was real and what wasn't." Indeed, if you watch any of the film's tra...