Earlier this afternoon I had about 15 minutes with Biutiful director-cowriter-producer Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu in the elegant, softly lighted lounge of Soho’s Mercer Hotel. I feel so conversant with Biutiful and so relaxed with Inarritu, having known him for eight or nine years, that I didn’t prepare questions. And so I naturally hemmed and hawed at first — brilliant. But we found a groove after a couple of minutes. What are the odds that Biutiful might capture the Best Foreign Language Oscar? You tell me.
These little videos are sloppy, slapdash — a far cry from the satisfying, comfortably slick values found on Movie City News. No editing, no trimming, no nothing — I just shoot and convert and put ’em up. But they’re honest.
