The 'Roma' effect: 5 films that reimagine great cities on screen
When filmmakers make movies set in a specific world capital, they're drawing from their own memories and impressions of that city. It's urban planning, plus a little poetry. Often a director films on location; other times, a production design team fabricates a corner or a neighborhood from scratch, a long way from the real thing.
This brings us to "Roma," director Alfonso Cuaron's drama now streaming on Netflix and playing a handful of theaters.
Shot in 65 millimeter black and white, set in 1970 and 1971-era Mexico City and environs, "Roma" is a work of fastidious visual detail, much of
