Matthew McConaughey in Interstellar (Photo: Paramount) New extras include a Silent Space version of the film (basically, without music) and a piece on space films through the decades extras carried over from the previous home edition include a nine-part making-of feature and Jonás Cuarón's short film Aningaaq. Gravity has been re-released on Blu-ray in the limited Diamond Luxe Edition. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards (including Best Picture), this won seven, including Best Director for Cuarón and a half-dozen for various technical achievements.
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Stripped of its bells and whistles, will Gravity stand the test of time? It's impossible to predict, but never mind: The present is our primary concern, and this eye-popper of a movie is well worth viewing. Of course, one of the measures of a truly great movie is that it retains its appeal no matter what the viewing conditions that's why Star Wars and Jaws continue to be endlessly discussed after three-and-a-half decades and why Avatar, the top-grossing movie of all time, is now largely ignored after a mere six years. Still, Gravity is an absorbing movie that looked incredible in IMAX 3-D, and while the home theater experience doesn't quite compare, it's nevertheless a gorgeous production on Blu-ray. While the sparse screenplay by Cuarón and his son Jonás Cuarón will strike some as suitably thrifty and others as appallingly threadbare, there's no denying it sports a few moldy conventions. Lubezski, who should have won an Oscar years ago (credits include Sleepy Hollow and The Tree of Life), copped the first of his two consecutive awards for this picture (the second was for last year's Birdman), and with good reason: All of the visuals are so staggering, so awe-inspiring, that they bring up thoughts of the existence of God (or not take your pick), the mysteries of the universe and the fatal beauty of everything that surrounds us. Stone is a panicky mess as she's free-floating through space with her oxygen supply running perilously low that leaves it to Kowalski to devise a plan that will allow them to safely return to Earth. Their patch-up mission is going as planned until debris from a destroyed Russian satellite cripples the shuttle and kills everyone else.
Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), members of the Explorer space shuttle crew.
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Working with director of photography Emmanuel Lubezski and a crack FX team to create a you-are-there environment, Cuarón puts us in the company of rookie rocketeer Dr. Yet what it lacks in sociopolitical heft and laser-point characterizations it makes up for in sheer visual spectacle. To be frank, it's not even Cuarón's best picture, not with Y Tu Mamá También and Children of Men on his resume. To listen to some overzealous scribes tell it, when Gravity was initially released in theaters, writer-director Alfonso Cuarón's film was so much the "game-changing" masterpiece that it almost made 2001: A Space Odyssey look as feeble as Plan 9 from Outer Space by comparison. Sandra Bullock in Gravity (Photo: Warner)