Most Recent Film: Gravity(2013) Next Film: A Boy And His Shoe (TBA) Best Film: Children Of Men (2006) Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron has been making great film after great film for a long time - it's just that nobody bothered to connect the man's name to his output. When you realise that Cuaron was not only responsible for the best of all the Harry Potter films - The Prisoner of Azkaban - but Children Of Men (arguably the best film of the Noughties) and the recent SFX masterpiece that was Gravity, you begin to get a sense of his diverse talents. Cuaron's first masterpiece came as early as 2001, though, when the filmmaker released the Spanish-language film Y Tu Mamá También (translation: And Your Mother Too) - one which showcased his preference for realistic long takes and a certain freewheeling camera style that was later honed to such masterful degrees in both Children Of Men and Gravity. Cuaron is the kind of versatile filmmaker - one with his eye firmly fixed on the future of his medium and its associated technologies - who could go anywhere and do anything (forget the limitations). His next film, the curiously titled A Boy And His Shoe, sounds risky, but Cuaron has earned the right to our trust. Expect it to be another masterpiece, then.
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
