Making Gravity Was So Much Harder Than You Could Possibly Imagine

CineFix Top 100

"I hate space."

For anyone that got to see Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity in the theater, it’s a breathless, palm-sweating, white-knuckled experience that is hard to describe. Essentially Castaway in space, Sandra Bullock is by herself for most of a tight 90 minute adrenaline rush just trying to survive. This episode of CineFix Top 100, Clint, Cal and Alex celebrate this harrowing film’s 10th Anniversary with its Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor, Tim Webber. Tim walks us through all the little details and tries to describe how necessity really is the mother of invention when making a movie where only the faces are real. Buckle up.

Meanwhile, producer Dan’s algorithm is floating quietly through space, looking down on the earth and probably scheming…

CineFix Top 100 is produced by Tayo Oyekan, with Director of Photography, Jamie Parslow and Technical Producer, Marhyan Franzen. Our Executive Producers are Clint Gage, Dan Parkhurst and Corrado Caretto. Logo and graphic design by Eric Sapp and title animations by Casey Redmon.

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