Alfonso Cuarón's Roma was a huge watershed for Netflix. The black-and-white film was celebrated across the globe, earning Netflix awards and Oscars out the wazoo, and even making the leap to physical media by being chosen as part of the esteemed Criterion Collection. Now, one of the Criterion bonus features has made its way back to Netflix: A documentary, more than an hour in length, called Road to Roma, is now streaming on the service. [caption id="attachment_849293" align="alignright" width="350"] Image via Netflix[/caption] The documentary, directed by Andres Clariond and Gabriel Nuncio (Territorio) …
The Criterion Collection is adding to its library in February of 2020, and among its selections is Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, a Netflix release. It will be the first Netflix movie in Criterion, whose focus has always been to license and champion classic and contemporary films it deems important. This recognition is quite the achievement for Netflix, further legitimizing it as a company committed to producing quality material. Premiering on the streaming service in 2018, Roma would be nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Actress for Yalitza Aparicio. It won Best Foreign Language …
After nabbing Netflix its second feature-length Oscar with Roma, filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón has once again set his artfully-composed sights on streaming. But this ain't Netflix: THR reports Cuarón has inked an overall deal with Apple to create television projects for the company's upcoming Apple TV+ streaming service. Under the deal, Cuarón will still keep his nonexclusive deal with Anonymous Content, who he will help to develop select projects. The report notes that several networks were in a bidding war to claim Cuarón's services, but Apple eventually won out thanks to—and …