MIT Lecture Series Committee

February 28 & March 1, 2014

Rated PG-13
91 minutes

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format: 35mm

Gravity (2013)

2013 Academy Award Nominations: Motion Picture, Leading Actress (Sandra Bullock), Cinematography (WIN!), Directing (Alfonso Cuarón) (WIN!), Editing (WIN!), Original Score (WIN!), Production Design, Sound Editing (WIN!), Sound Mixing (WIN!), Visual Effects (WIN!)

Gravity stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space. [www.rottentomatoes.com]

Gravity, a weightless ballet and a cold-sweat nightmare, intimates mystery and profundity, with that mixture of beauty and terror that the Romantics called the sublime.
      -- Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail. Read this review.