“Dream Team,” the most recent film from directing duo Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn has been acquired by Yellow Veil Pictures ahead of its international sales launch at Marche du Film.
Yellow Veil has acquired worldwide sales rights and North American distribution rights to “Dream Team,” which just held its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies after world premiering at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The company plans to release the film domestically later this year.
According to its official synopsis, “Dream Team” is “an absurdist homage to ’90s basic cable TV thrillers, which follows the episodic escapades of two hot Interpol agents who uncover an international, interspecies mystery.”
“Dream Team” stars Esther Garrel (“Call Me by Your Name”) and Alex Zhang Hungtai (“I Was a Simple Man”). Executive producers include Sarah Winshall (“I Saw the TV Glow”), Pierce Varous (“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed...
Yellow Veil has acquired worldwide sales rights and North American distribution rights to “Dream Team,” which just held its U.S. premiere at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies after world premiering at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The company plans to release the film domestically later this year.
According to its official synopsis, “Dream Team” is “an absurdist homage to ’90s basic cable TV thrillers, which follows the episodic escapades of two hot Interpol agents who uncover an international, interspecies mystery.”
“Dream Team” stars Esther Garrel (“Call Me by Your Name”) and Alex Zhang Hungtai (“I Was a Simple Man”). Executive producers include Sarah Winshall (“I Saw the TV Glow”), Pierce Varous (“The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed...
- 4/10/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
A new film festival is on the scene. Los Angeles Festival of Movies (Lafm), co-presented by Mubi and Mezzanine, has announced the full line-up for its inaugural run, taking place April 4-7, 2024. Boasting 11 titles––including one world premiere, three 4K restorations, a featured artist talk, documentary series, and curated shorts program––screenings will take place at three recently opened venues on the east side of Los Angeles: Vidiots in Eagle Rock, 2220 Arts + Archives in Historic Filipinotown, and Now Instant Image Hall in Chinatown.
Among the lineup are some of our recent festival favorites: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, India Donaldson’s Good One, the Ross brothers’ Gasoline Rainbow, and Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3. Closing the festival is the world premiere of Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharer’s Rap World.
“This lineup is a snapshot of the past and present landscape of independent cinema, and a group...
Among the lineup are some of our recent festival favorites: Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow, India Donaldson’s Good One, the Ross brothers’ Gasoline Rainbow, and Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3. Closing the festival is the world premiere of Conner O’Malley and Danny Scharer’s Rap World.
“This lineup is a snapshot of the past and present landscape of independent cinema, and a group...
- 3/7/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Dream Team, the third feature by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, is another in the writer-director duo’s run of genre pastiches that double as sociopolitical parables. Here, the influence of ’90s basic cable TV thrillers is channeled into an episodic story about a pair of Interpol agents (Esther Garrel and Alex Zhang Hungtai) who travel to Mexico to investigate the mysterious death of a corral smuggler. Shot by Horn in characteristically textured 16mm, the film unfolds between a variety of West Coast locales stretching from Baja California to Vancouver. As the body count rises and rumors of a physic coral […]
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- 2/9/2024
- by Jordan Cronk
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Dream Team, the third feature by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, is another in the writer-director duo’s run of genre pastiches that double as sociopolitical parables. Here, the influence of ’90s basic cable TV thrillers is channeled into an episodic story about a pair of Interpol agents (Esther Garrel and Alex Zhang Hungtai) who travel to Mexico to investigate the mysterious death of a corral smuggler. Shot by Horn in characteristically textured 16mm, the film unfolds between a variety of West Coast locales stretching from Baja California to Vancouver. As the body count rises and rumors of a physic coral […]
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- 2/9/2024
- by Jordan Cronk
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A few weeks ago, as The Sweet East started gracing theatres across the States, Reverse Shot ran a sprawling conversation between critic K. Austin Collins and critic-turned-screenwriter Nick Pinkerton. It’s a delightful exchange I can’t recommend enough, both for all it has to uncover about Sean Price Williams’ film––which Pinkerton wrote and which, in my book, was one of last year’s finest––but also for what it sponges of our depressingly shortsighted, quid-pro-quo relationship with the films we watch, what we expect to receive in return for the time we invest in them. “If I wanted to say something,” Pinkerton reflects on the okay-but-what’s-the-message response Sweet East routinely encountered in the months since its Cannes premiere, “I would open my mouth and the words would come out. That’s not what one makes a movie for. You make a movie to go beyond the expression of simple concepts.
- 2/8/2024
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
Out with the old, in with the new! As Netflix begins cleaning house for both a new month and a new, several of its biggest titles will sadly have to say goodbye. January 2024 will be your last month to watch several modern classics, including Jordan Peele’s culture-changing horror debut “Get Out,” the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-starred “La La Land,” and “Poor Things” director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Greek tragedy retelling “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.”
Now’s your last chance to watch everything before they’re gone— get started with The Streamable’s Top 5 picks for everything leaving Netflix in January and see everything that will be removed from the platform throughout the month below!
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Ron Stallworth’s memoir about infiltrating the local Ku Klux Klan chapter after being...
- 12/18/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
"You can't beat them with a normal car." "Yes we can... if you drive it." Yet another racing movie on the horizon. Lionsgate Movies has unveiled an official trailer for Race For Glory: Audi vs Lancia, formerly known as simply 2 Win (all of these titles are bad). This project is an Italy / UK / Ireland co-production directed by an Italian filmmaker, and starring, co-written by, and produced by the Italian actor Riccardo Scamarcio. Inspired by true events that occurred during the fierce rivalry between Germany (Audi) and Italy (Lancia) at the 1983 Rally World Championships. Race For Glory stars Riccardo Scamarcio as rally driver Cesare Fiorio, Volker Bruch as racing champion Walter Röhrl, with Katie Clarkson-Hill, Esther Garrel, Giorgio Montanini, Gianmaria Martini, Haley Bennett, and featuring Daniel Brühl as the German engineer Roland Gumpert, founder of the sports car manufacturer Apollo Automobil. This is being dumped in theaters and on VOD at...
- 12/4/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
One of the most puzzling (non-) happenings in international cinema this year is the lack of U.S. distribution for Philippe Garrel’s stellar new drama The Plough. A family affair starring Louis Garrel, Damien Mongin, Esther Garrel, Lena Garrel, Francine Bergé Aurélien Recoing, Mathilde Weil, and Asma Messaoudene, the film about a company of puppeteers premiered at Berlinale this year and is still looking for a home here. However, it’ll open in France this September, and with it the first trailer has arrived.
Rory O’Connor said in his Berlinale review, “In 1947, ten years before becoming an actor, Philippe Garrel’s father, Maurice, joined a company of puppeteers. That piece of history is like a well of inspiration in The Plough, Garrel’s latest cinematic family affair and a film as effortless as they come. It stars all three of Philippe’s children––Louie, Lena, and Esther––as brother...
Rory O’Connor said in his Berlinale review, “In 1947, ten years before becoming an actor, Philippe Garrel’s father, Maurice, joined a company of puppeteers. That piece of history is like a well of inspiration in The Plough, Garrel’s latest cinematic family affair and a film as effortless as they come. It stars all three of Philippe’s children––Louie, Lena, and Esther––as brother...
- 7/24/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
That English-language cinema has no parallel for the Garrel family is equal testament to their legacy and our shallow, piddling culture. While Philippe Garrel’s decades-long filmmaking career––which began with political documentation and silent features, but now represents modern cinema’s best studies of romance and longing––just added to its corpus his excellent The Plough, starring progeny Louis Garrel, Esther Garrel, and Lena Garrel, Louis is about to see the U.S. debut of The Innocent, his fourth feature in writing-directing-starring capacities.
If it barely resembles his father’s films––still attuned to human behavior, but packaging observations inside madcap scenarios Garrel proudly calls “completely unbelievable”––that’s all the better: watching The Innocent suggests less an heir to Philippe Garrel than Dino Risi or Pierre Etaix.
Ahead of a release this Friday beginning at NYC’s IFC Center, I talked to Garrel about the difficulty of constructing an intricate comedy-thriller,...
If it barely resembles his father’s films––still attuned to human behavior, but packaging observations inside madcap scenarios Garrel proudly calls “completely unbelievable”––that’s all the better: watching The Innocent suggests less an heir to Philippe Garrel than Dino Risi or Pierre Etaix.
Ahead of a release this Friday beginning at NYC’s IFC Center, I talked to Garrel about the difficulty of constructing an intricate comedy-thriller,...
- 3/16/2023
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Given the reportedly frequent use of puppets as aids to the therapeutic process, one might expect a family of third-generation puppeteers to be among the most well-adjusted people in the world. Or among the least, given the other connotation of puppetry, as a conduit for demonic, psychotic or otherwise malign energies. Sadly, neither is the case with the clan in Philippe Garrel’s “The Plough,” a featherweight folderol even by the director’s uneven recent standards, which seems mainly conceived as a cozy way for the veteran director to spend a little time reminding his real-life family how much they will miss him when he’s gone. It’s all about relationships but for anyone not surnamed Garrel, trying to find anything much to relate to in “The Plough” is a lonely furrow indeed.
Le Grand Chariot is the puppet theater run by Simon (Aurélien Recoing) alongside his aspiring actor...
Le Grand Chariot is the puppet theater run by Simon (Aurélien Recoing) alongside his aspiring actor...
- 2/24/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Writer, director and occasional actor Philippe Garrel shot his first full-length movie, Marie pour mémoire, when he was only 19. That was amid the turmoil of May 1968, and since then he has made a new feature every few years, becoming a regular fixture in festivals and arthouses, especially in his native France.
Working with unknown or established actors, including Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Pierre Léaud, his intimate tales of emotional unrest — often the same story told again and again, during different epochs, in color or black-and-white — have turned him into a dependable auteur but also an acquired taste. If you don’t like French movies about love, sex, family, adultery and anguish, then you probably won’t like Garrel.
His work has always had an autobiographical bent to it, and one of his best films, 1970’s La Cicatrice Intérieure, starred his girlfriend at the time, Nico of The Velvet Underground. But his latest feature,...
Working with unknown or established actors, including Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Pierre Léaud, his intimate tales of emotional unrest — often the same story told again and again, during different epochs, in color or black-and-white — have turned him into a dependable auteur but also an acquired taste. If you don’t like French movies about love, sex, family, adultery and anguish, then you probably won’t like Garrel.
His work has always had an autobiographical bent to it, and one of his best films, 1970’s La Cicatrice Intérieure, starred his girlfriend at the time, Nico of The Velvet Underground. But his latest feature,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
18 titles selected for competition, including films by Christian Petzold, Emily Atef, Margarethe Von Trotta and Philippe Garrel.
The 18-strong Competition line-up for the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival has been announced by festival heads Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek.
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New films from Christian Petzold, Margarethe Von Trotte, Emily Atef and Lila Avilés are among those selected. Some 15 of the 18 titles are world premieres, with international premieres for Celine Song’s Past Lives after debuting to strong reviews at Sundance; Makoto Shinkai’s animation Suzume, released in Japan last November; and Australia’s The Survival Of Kindness by Rolf de Heer,...
The 18-strong Competition line-up for the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival has been announced by festival heads Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek.
Scroll down for full list
New films from Christian Petzold, Margarethe Von Trotte, Emily Atef and Lila Avilés are among those selected. Some 15 of the 18 titles are world premieres, with international premieres for Celine Song’s Past Lives after debuting to strong reviews at Sundance; Makoto Shinkai’s animation Suzume, released in Japan last November; and Australia’s The Survival Of Kindness by Rolf de Heer,...
- 1/23/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Berlin Film Festival on Monday unveiled the titles selected for its official competition as well as its sidebar Encounters competitive section.
A total of 18 films have been selected for the international competition with highlights including Christian Petzold’s latest film Roter Himmel (Afire), Margarethe von Trotta directing Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps in Ingeborg Bachmann — Journey Into the Desert, and Philippe Garrel returns with a new feature titled The Plough.
Scroll down for the full lineup.
This morning the festival also revealed an extra special screening: Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn will debut a documentary titled Superpower, a film shot in Ukraine last year at the outbreak of Russia’s invasion and follows president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Berlin Film Festival takes place February 16-26.
Organizers have already announced more than 100 titles across sidebars spanning Panorama, Forum, and Berlinale Special. The festival had initially done a good job of increasing...
A total of 18 films have been selected for the international competition with highlights including Christian Petzold’s latest film Roter Himmel (Afire), Margarethe von Trotta directing Phantom Thread star Vicky Krieps in Ingeborg Bachmann — Journey Into the Desert, and Philippe Garrel returns with a new feature titled The Plough.
Scroll down for the full lineup.
This morning the festival also revealed an extra special screening: Actor and filmmaker Sean Penn will debut a documentary titled Superpower, a film shot in Ukraine last year at the outbreak of Russia’s invasion and follows president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The Berlin Film Festival takes place February 16-26.
Organizers have already announced more than 100 titles across sidebars spanning Panorama, Forum, and Berlinale Special. The festival had initially done a good job of increasing...
- 1/23/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Le Grande Chariot
Cinema for the Garrels has always been a family affair but Philippe Garrel‘s 28th features feel a tad more special. Starring Louis Garrel, Esther Garrel, Léna Garrel, Aurélien Recoing, Damien Mongin, Francine Bergé, Mathilde Weil, Asma Messaoudene and marionette artists, Le Grande Chariot (formerly known as “La lune crevée”) moved into production early in 2022. Written by the director alongside Jean-Claude Carrière, Arlette Langmann and Caroline Deruas, the story charts the fantastic yet tragic destiny of three puppet artist siblings.
Gist: Three siblings, a father and a grandmother who run a travelling puppet show. When the father dies during a performance, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.…...
Cinema for the Garrels has always been a family affair but Philippe Garrel‘s 28th features feel a tad more special. Starring Louis Garrel, Esther Garrel, Léna Garrel, Aurélien Recoing, Damien Mongin, Francine Bergé, Mathilde Weil, Asma Messaoudene and marionette artists, Le Grande Chariot (formerly known as “La lune crevée”) moved into production early in 2022. Written by the director alongside Jean-Claude Carrière, Arlette Langmann and Caroline Deruas, the story charts the fantastic yet tragic destiny of three puppet artist siblings.
Gist: Three siblings, a father and a grandmother who run a travelling puppet show. When the father dies during a performance, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.…...
- 1/12/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
As of late the work of prolific French director Philippe Garrel has gone a bit unappreciated here in the States, the perceived notion being that he keeps recycling the same themes with little invention. For those who don’t prescribe to that theory (e.g. this writer) the announcement of a new project still carries much anticipation.
Such is the case for his next film La lune crevée (roughly translated to The Burst Moon), which was first reported on late last year but we’re getting wind of thanks to new funding from Cnc (via Cineuropa). Set to once again be a family affair, the director’s 28th film stars his three children as well as Aurélien Recoing, Damien Mongin, Francine Bergé, Mathilde Weil, and Asma Messaoudene.
Co-written by Garrel, Jean-Claude Carrière (Rip), Arlette Langmann, and Caroline Deruas, the plot will tell “the romantic and tragic destiny of a family of puppeteer artists,...
Such is the case for his next film La lune crevée (roughly translated to The Burst Moon), which was first reported on late last year but we’re getting wind of thanks to new funding from Cnc (via Cineuropa). Set to once again be a family affair, the director’s 28th film stars his three children as well as Aurélien Recoing, Damien Mongin, Francine Bergé, Mathilde Weil, and Asma Messaoudene.
Co-written by Garrel, Jean-Claude Carrière (Rip), Arlette Langmann, and Caroline Deruas, the plot will tell “the romantic and tragic destiny of a family of puppeteer artists,...
- 3/1/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Adventures Of A Mathematician Samuel Goldwyn Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Thor Klein Writer: Thor Klein Cast: Philippe Tlokinski, Esther Garrel, Fabian Kociecki, Joel Basman, Mateusz Wieclawek, Sam Keeley Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/22/21 Opens: October 1, 2021 I know that 2+2 equals 4 and […]
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- 11/17/2021
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"They're not thinking of actually using the bomb, are they?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has unveiled an official trailer for an indie historic biopic called Adventures of a Mathematician, which originally premiered at the 2020 Palm Springs Film Festival last year. It's finally opening in the US in theaters + on VOD in October this year. Based on the autobiography of the same name by Stanislaw (Stan) Ulam, the film is about a Polish immigrant who escaped in the 1930s. It's the warmhearted story of a mathematician who moves to the US. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first computer. The film grapples with the subsequent ethical fallout of thermonuclear war, a spectre which still looms large over our humanity. Adventures of a Mathematician received grants from the Arthur P. Sloan Foundation. This stars Philippe Tlokinski as Stan, with Joel Basman,...
- 8/26/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Paris-based Indies Sales is handling international rights.
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Adventures Of A Mathematician, inspired by the life of the late legendary Polish-American scientist Stanislaw Ulam whose work contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb as well as computers.
The acquisition is among a slew of pre-sales unveiled by Paris-based Indie Sales as it continues to tie up deals on the title during the AFM.
The film has also sold to France (Rezo), the Middle East and North Africa (Gulf Film), China (Huanxi Media Group), Russia, Cis and the Baltics (Rocket Releasing), Taiwan...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Adventures Of A Mathematician, inspired by the life of the late legendary Polish-American scientist Stanislaw Ulam whose work contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb as well as computers.
The acquisition is among a slew of pre-sales unveiled by Paris-based Indie Sales as it continues to tie up deals on the title during the AFM.
The film has also sold to France (Rezo), the Middle East and North Africa (Gulf Film), China (Huanxi Media Group), Russia, Cis and the Baltics (Rocket Releasing), Taiwan...
- 11/11/2020
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Luca Guadagnino has been vocal about wanting to return to the world created by author André Aciman with a sequel to “Call Me by Your Name,” based on the 2019 followup novel “Find Me.” As told to IndieWire during a recent interview promoting his new film “Shirley,” actor Michael Stuhlbarg is ready to get back to Elio and Oliver, too. In “Call Me by Your Name,” Stuhlbarg played Elio’s father, Professor Sami Perlman, and was given one of the film’s most iconic moments with a moving speech given to Elio after he and Oliver part ways.
But Stuhlbarg said he hasn’t been contacted about participating in the sequel yet. “I would be glad to if they were interested to discuss it with me,” he said. “I would be thrilled just to be a part of it, if it were to happen. I know that everybody seems very enthusiastic about it so.
But Stuhlbarg said he hasn’t been contacted about participating in the sequel yet. “I would be glad to if they were interested to discuss it with me,” he said. “I would be thrilled just to be a part of it, if it were to happen. I know that everybody seems very enthusiastic about it so.
- 6/6/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Director Luca Guadagnino has added yet another project to his packed slate of upcoming films and television. According to Variety, the Academy Award-nominated “Call Me By Your Name” and “I Am Love” filmmaker is now set to helm a retelling of “Scarface” for Universal Pictures. The script for this latest version comes from Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, working from earlier drafts by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (the “Miss Bala” remake), Jonathan Herman (“Straight Outta Compton”), and Paul Attanasio (“Quiz Show”).
The mythic crime story of Scarface has been told many a time in cinema, from the 1932 Howard Hawks original starring Paul Muni, to Brian De Palma’s lurid Miami-set take, from 1983, with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. Guadagnino’s version will reportedly be a reimagining of the original immigrant narrative established in both those films, and this time will be set in Los Angeles.
This is not Guadagnino’s first dip into remake territory,...
The mythic crime story of Scarface has been told many a time in cinema, from the 1932 Howard Hawks original starring Paul Muni, to Brian De Palma’s lurid Miami-set take, from 1983, with Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. Guadagnino’s version will reportedly be a reimagining of the original immigrant narrative established in both those films, and this time will be set in Los Angeles.
This is not Guadagnino’s first dip into remake territory,...
- 5/14/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Does Luca Guadagnino ever sleep? The Italian filmmaker released back-to-back arthouse favorites “Call Me by Your Name” and “Suspiria” in 2017 and 2018, launched the short film “The Staggering Girl” at Cannes in 2019, and he’s also working on an adaptation of William Golding’s AP English staple, “Lord of the Flies.” That’s not to mention his miniseries “We Are Who We Are” in the works, plus a sequel to “Call Me By Your Name,” and a long-rumored big-screen imagining of Bob Dylan’s iconic breakup album, “Blood on the Tracks.”
In the latest news on the front of “Lord of the Flies,” which Guadagnino is set up to direct for Warner Bros., the film has landed young-adult novelist and “A Monster Calls” scribe Patrick Ness as the screenwriter. There were previously talks of a gender-bent production, swapping in a group of school girls for the boys in the 1954 novel who,...
In the latest news on the front of “Lord of the Flies,” which Guadagnino is set up to direct for Warner Bros., the film has landed young-adult novelist and “A Monster Calls” scribe Patrick Ness as the screenwriter. There were previously talks of a gender-bent production, swapping in a group of school girls for the boys in the 1954 novel who,...
- 4/25/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
While it seems like more has been discussed about the sequel to Call Me by Your Name than most independent films that have actually been made the last few years, in a time when little else brings joy, it’s worth providing the updates that do come in. Since the 2017 release of his romantic drama, Luca Guadagnino has been vocal about wanting to continue this story in a Before trilogy-esque way and it looks like things are still moving forward despite a pandemic-related hiccup.
“I was going to America to meet a writer I love very much, whose name I don’t want to mention, to talk about the second part. Unfortunately, everything is canceled,” he recently told the Italian Gay.it (via The Playlist). “Of course, it’s a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stulhbarg, Esther Garrel, and the other actors. They will all...
“I was going to America to meet a writer I love very much, whose name I don’t want to mention, to talk about the second part. Unfortunately, everything is canceled,” he recently told the Italian Gay.it (via The Playlist). “Of course, it’s a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stulhbarg, Esther Garrel, and the other actors. They will all...
- 4/6/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
‘Call Me By Your Name’ filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino has confirmed that both Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer will return for the film’s follow-up.
Guadagnino confirmed the news via the Italian newspaper La Repubblica stating; “Of course, it was a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel and the other actors. Everyone will be in the new movie,”
Details for the follow-up have been sparse to date but there has been movement on getting the project off the ground which has now been halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also in news – ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ series finds a new writer
“Before coronavirus, I made a trip to the United States to meet a screenwriter I love very much, whose name I don’t want to say, to talk about the second part. Unfortunately, we had to put it on hold,” Guadagnino said.
The ‘Call Me By Your Name...
Guadagnino confirmed the news via the Italian newspaper La Repubblica stating; “Of course, it was a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel and the other actors. Everyone will be in the new movie,”
Details for the follow-up have been sparse to date but there has been movement on getting the project off the ground which has now been halted due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also in news – ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ series finds a new writer
“Before coronavirus, I made a trip to the United States to meet a screenwriter I love very much, whose name I don’t want to say, to talk about the second part. Unfortunately, we had to put it on hold,” Guadagnino said.
The ‘Call Me By Your Name...
- 4/6/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
According to a recent interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Call Me by Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino says that the Oscar-winning pic’s original stars Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg and more are coming back for the sequel.
For quite some time, Guadagnino has been talking about doing a sequel to the movie which notched four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and a win for James Ivory’s adapted screenplay of the 2007 André Aciman novel. Last year at Cannes, Guadagnino told Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman, that he already had the privilege of reading an early copy of Find Me, Aciman’s sequel novel.
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For quite some time, Guadagnino has been talking about doing a sequel to the movie which notched four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and a win for James Ivory’s adapted screenplay of the 2007 André Aciman novel. Last year at Cannes, Guadagnino told Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman, that he already had the privilege of reading an early copy of Find Me, Aciman’s sequel novel.
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- 4/5/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer and more from the cast of “Call Me by Your Name” are returning for the sequel, director Luca Guadagnino said in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
Not much is known about the new movie, but the novel on which “Call Me by Your Name” is based also has a sequel, titled “Find Me,” featuring the same characters. It takes place 10 years after the original story.
“Of course, it was a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel and the other actors. Everyone will be in the new movie,” Guadagnino said in the interview.
Chalamet played Elio Perlman in the film, a 17-year-old student living with his parents in rural Italy who meets Oliver, a graduate student working with Elio’s father. Over the course of the summer, the two grow close and develop a romantic relationship. However, Oliver...
Not much is known about the new movie, but the novel on which “Call Me by Your Name” is based also has a sequel, titled “Find Me,” featuring the same characters. It takes place 10 years after the original story.
“Of course, it was a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel and the other actors. Everyone will be in the new movie,” Guadagnino said in the interview.
Chalamet played Elio Perlman in the film, a 17-year-old student living with his parents in rural Italy who meets Oliver, a graduate student working with Elio’s father. Over the course of the summer, the two grow close and develop a romantic relationship. However, Oliver...
- 4/5/2020
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
The “Call Me By Your Name” film sequel is still kicking around with director Luca Guadagnino, it’s just going to take a bit longer to develop since the filmmaker is quarantined in Milan, Italy for the foreseeable future. The director recently told the Italian publication Gay.it (via The Playlist) that he was set to come to America for an important meeting with a potential screenwriter for the sequel before Italy went on lockdown.
“I was going to America to meet a writer I love very much, whose name I don’t want to mention, to talk about the second part,” Guadagnino said. “Unfortunately, everything is canceled. Of course, it’s a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stulhbarg, Esther Garrel, and the other actors. They will all be there in the new film.”
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“I was going to America to meet a writer I love very much, whose name I don’t want to mention, to talk about the second part,” Guadagnino said. “Unfortunately, everything is canceled. Of course, it’s a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stulhbarg, Esther Garrel, and the other actors. They will all be there in the new film.”
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- 4/2/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Philippe Garrel's L'enfant secret is exclusively showing October and November 2019 in the United Kingdom and United States in Mubi's Rediscovered series.To engage in Philippe Garrel’s autopoetic world is not a task; instead, the viewer’s participation fuses with a spellbinding mood. Garrel is a filmmaker who seems to be forever working on the periphery, yet he is treasured whenever he is discovered. His body of work, which spans over six decades, is remarkably self-complementary and bracingly emotionally consistent. Across it can be found an unmissable thread of thematic preoccupations, as well as typified characters drawn from Garrel’s biography, such as a consistent filmmaker protagonist (Garrel shot his first film age sixteen) and tumultuous relationships (mirroring his own with the singer Nico), electroshock and heroin abuse. A son of an actor himself, he often explored familial...
- 10/27/2019
- MUBI
In 2018 we've published 70 interviews whose subjects have ranged from old masters to emerging new voices, and including some unexpected conversations, including those with curators (Dave Kehr of the Museum of Modern Art), as well as archival finds (a 1971 talk with Jerry Lewis).Below you will find an index of our conversations throughout the year, listed in order of publication date.Blake Williams (Prototype)Samira Elagoz (Craigslist Allstars)F.J. Ossang (9 Fingers)Jerry LewisAndré Gil Mata (The Tree)Christian Petzold (Transit)Raoul Peck (Young Karl Marx)Ashley McKenzie (Werewolf)Penelope SpheerisTed Fendt (Classical Period)Dominik Graf (The Red Shadow)Blake Williams ("Stereo Visions")Arnaud Desplechin (Ismael's Ghosts)Ruth Beckermann (The Waldheim Waltz)Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias (Cocote)Esther GarrelPhilippe Garrel (Lover for a Day)Jonas MekasJohann Lurf (★)Karim Aïnouz (Central Airport Thf)Juliana Antunes (Baronesa)Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage)Wang Bing (Dead Souls)Donal Foreman...
- 12/27/2018
- MUBI
Netflix has acquired Emmanuel Mouret’s critically acclaimed French period drama “Mademoiselle de Joncquières,” which world-premiered at Toronto. The deal for most rights worldwide excludes France, Switzerland, Canada and the Benelux countries.
Represented in international markets by Indie Sales, “Mademoiselle de Joncquières” competed in Toronto’s Platform section. The 18th-century love-triangle drama is inspired by Didier Diderot’s classic work “Jacques the Fatalist and His Master,” and stars Cecile de France, Edouard Baer and Alice Isaaz.
De France plays Madame de la Pommeraye, a young and reclusive widow who falls in love with the seductive libertine Marquis des Arcis (Baer) against her better judgment. Feeling betrayed by his fading love, she orchestrates an intricate plan for revenge involving the seemingly pious Mademoiselle de Joncquières. Variety’s review called it “a shrewdly choreographed roundelay of scheming, seduction and revenge in the spirit of ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses.'”
Frédéric Niedermeyer at Paris-based...
Represented in international markets by Indie Sales, “Mademoiselle de Joncquières” competed in Toronto’s Platform section. The 18th-century love-triangle drama is inspired by Didier Diderot’s classic work “Jacques the Fatalist and His Master,” and stars Cecile de France, Edouard Baer and Alice Isaaz.
De France plays Madame de la Pommeraye, a young and reclusive widow who falls in love with the seductive libertine Marquis des Arcis (Baer) against her better judgment. Feeling betrayed by his fading love, she orchestrates an intricate plan for revenge involving the seemingly pious Mademoiselle de Joncquières. Variety’s review called it “a shrewdly choreographed roundelay of scheming, seduction and revenge in the spirit of ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses.'”
Frédéric Niedermeyer at Paris-based...
- 11/9/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy and Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Now that the Los Angeles Film Festival is no more, AFI Fest is more important than ever. It was the premier event of its kind even before its crosstown rival announced its permanent closure late last month, but now that it’s the only game in town, it’s unmissable. This year’s edition of the last major festival of the calendar year comes with a handful world premieres — “On the Basis of Sex,” “Mary Queen of Scots,” and “Bird Box” — and a robust slate of offerings from the likes of Berlin, Cannes, and Venice.
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
AFI Fest’s strength has always been the way it eschews world premieres in favor of high-quality films that premiered elsewhere on the festival circuit; Jacqueline Lyanga, whose eight-year tenure as Festival Director came to an end this summer, likened it to an “almanac of the year in cinema.” With that in mind, seek out...
- 11/8/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Philippe Tlokinski and Esther Garrel join production in casting reshuffle.
Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired world rights to German director Thorsten Klein’s upcoming English-language debut Adventures Of A Mathematician, inspired by the life of late legendary Polish-American scientist Stanislaw Ulam, whose work contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb as well as computers.
In separate news for the production, the company also revealed that Polish-French actor Philippe Tlokinski has been cast in the role of the protagonist Stanislaw, or Stan, alongside French actress Esther Garrel. Tlokinski replaces Jakub Gierszal who was originally announced for the role.
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Paris-based company Indie Sales has acquired world rights to German director Thorsten Klein’s upcoming English-language debut Adventures Of A Mathematician, inspired by the life of late legendary Polish-American scientist Stanislaw Ulam, whose work contributed to the development of the hydrogen bomb as well as computers.
In separate news for the production, the company also revealed that Polish-French actor Philippe Tlokinski has been cast in the role of the protagonist Stanislaw, or Stan, alongside French actress Esther Garrel. Tlokinski replaces Jakub Gierszal who was originally announced for the role.
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- 9/7/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
France is set to get three new Imax theaters after Imax Corp struck a deal with French exhibitor CinéAlpes. The move will see screens erected in the cities of Tours, Quetigny and Aubière in central France. The move will mean that France has 24 Imax theaters with 17 currently open and seven set to open. “CinéAlpes shares our passion for delivering premium entertainment experiences as evidenced by their commitment to our Imax with Laser experience. We are delighted to welcome them as our newest partner in France and together look forward to introducing Imax to new cities in the country – particularly in Central France,” said Imax CEO Richard Gelfond. “More and more moviegoers in France are choosing Imax as their preferred way to experience blockbusters, where in the last year alone we have increased our box office in the market by 85%. We continue to build on this success with the recent opening...
- 5/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Film currently shooting in Morocco.
Sierra/Affinity has launched sales in Cannes on the action film Red Snake featuring a female-led cast.
Caroline Fourest has begun filming in Morroco from her screenplay and Dilan Gwyn stars alongside Camelia Jordana, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Maya Sansa, Noush Skaugen, Nanna Blondell and Mark Ryder.
Inspired by true events, Red Snake follows the story of Zara, a young Yazidi woman who is kidnapped and held captive by a ruthless commander.
When she finally escapes, she joins a group of female warriors determined to fight back. Although they hail from different backgrounds, the women...
Sierra/Affinity has launched sales in Cannes on the action film Red Snake featuring a female-led cast.
Caroline Fourest has begun filming in Morroco from her screenplay and Dilan Gwyn stars alongside Camelia Jordana, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Maya Sansa, Noush Skaugen, Nanna Blondell and Mark Ryder.
Inspired by true events, Red Snake follows the story of Zara, a young Yazidi woman who is kidnapped and held captive by a ruthless commander.
When she finally escapes, she joins a group of female warriors determined to fight back. Although they hail from different backgrounds, the women...
- 5/11/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Leading Hollywood-based sales and finance agency, Sierra/Affinity has begun international sales for action film “Red Snake,” at the Cannes Film Market. The film is directed by Caroline Fourest and features a predominantly female cast.
The cast includes Dilan Gwyn, Cesar Award winner Camelia Jordana (“Le Brio”), Amira Casar (“Call Me by Your Name”), Esther Garrel (“Call Me by Your Name”), Maya Sansa (“Italian Romance”), Noush Skaugen (“The Conjouring 2”), Nanna Blondell (“Hassel”) and Mark Ryder (“Borgia”).
Inspired by true events, “Red Snake” follows the story of Zara, a young Yazidi woman who is kidnapped and held captive by a ruthless commander. When she finally escapes, she joins a powerful group of female warriors determined to fight back. Although they hail from different backgrounds, the women all share a troubled past that fuels their urge to accomplish the goal of bringing down Isis (aka Islamic State).
Producers include Samuel Hadida via his Davis Films label,...
The cast includes Dilan Gwyn, Cesar Award winner Camelia Jordana (“Le Brio”), Amira Casar (“Call Me by Your Name”), Esther Garrel (“Call Me by Your Name”), Maya Sansa (“Italian Romance”), Noush Skaugen (“The Conjouring 2”), Nanna Blondell (“Hassel”) and Mark Ryder (“Borgia”).
Inspired by true events, “Red Snake” follows the story of Zara, a young Yazidi woman who is kidnapped and held captive by a ruthless commander. When she finally escapes, she joins a powerful group of female warriors determined to fight back. Although they hail from different backgrounds, the women all share a troubled past that fuels their urge to accomplish the goal of bringing down Isis (aka Islamic State).
Producers include Samuel Hadida via his Davis Films label,...
- 5/11/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
If you are a long time reader of these here pages, then you may very well already be aware of my love for the cinematic works of Nathan Silver. Working under the mode of roughly a movie a year, Silver has offered some of the finest indie fare of this past decade. From at-home care drama Exit Elena, to the introspective Uncertain Terms, the tumultuous Stinking Heaven and the manic Thirst Street, Silver perfectly encapsulates the wild mood swings of early 21st century American Living like few other filmmakers of his generation. Reuniting with his Thirst Street co-star Esther Garrel, Silver has also teamed up with writer Jack Dunphy, and actress Maëlle Poesy for the NYC theater scene fuck-up The Great Pretender. Now, while I am...
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- 4/20/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWith Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in Pierrot le fou on the official poster for the 71st Cannes Film Festival, all signs point to Jean-Luc Godard's new film, Le livre d'image, premiering there this May.Isao Takahata—the master filmmaker, animator, and co-founder of Studio Ghibli—has sadly left us. Jasper Sharp has penned a thoughtful, thorough obituary for The Guardian.The Czech New Wave director Juraj Herz has also died, reports Czech Journal.Hirokazu Kore-eda's highly productive filmmaking pace continues with a new project, and The Playlist reports that Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve, and perhaps even Ethan Hawke, are aboard.Recommended VIEWINGTerry Gilliam's decades-in-the-making dream project, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, is finally near. Above is the raucous first trailer led by the aptly paired duo of Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver.
- 4/11/2018
- MUBI
Philippe Garrel's Lover for a Day (2017) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United States. It is showing from March 31 - April 30, 2018.The wonderful actress Esther Garrel dropped by to talk with us about her experiences working on Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name and her father Philippe Garrel's latest film, Lover for a Day, which is a Mubi Release.
- 4/9/2018
- MUBI
Philippe Garrel's Lover for a Day (2017) is having its exclusive online premiere on Mubi in the United States. It is showing from March 31 - April 30, 2018.Roughly half an hour into Philippe Garrel’s Lover for a Day, there is a moment of unexpected hysteria: Ariane (Louise Chevillotte) returns home to find Jeanne (Esther Garrel) perched beside an empty window, threatening to jump. Jeanne is the daughter of Jeanne’s lover Gilles (Éric Caravaca), a philosophy professor several years her senior, and has come to stay with them in their cramped apartment following a messy argument with her boyfriend, Mateo. Jeanne asserts that she needs to kill herself to make Mateo realizes the depth of the pain he’s caused her. After a struggle, Ariane manages to pull her down, and the two make a pact to never tell Gilles what has happened. This moment marks a significant shift in...
- 3/31/2018
- MUBI
A Look At 2017 Films Nominated For Prominent Oscars
By Lee Pfeiffer
Director Luca Guadagnino's "Call Me by Your Name" has been winning plaudits from critics and has earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The lyrical love story between two closeted gay men is set in Italy in 1983.Timothée Chalamet plays Elio, a 17 year-old Jewish-American high school student who is also of Italian heritage. He lives a seemingly idyllic life in a villa located in rural Italy. He's a brilliant student, able to converse in multiple languages and also displays stunning musical talents.His father (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a professor of archaeology who annually invites a graduate student to spend six weeks at the villa to assist in cataloging materials pertaining to excavations of historical finds. This year's student is Oliver (wonderfully played by Armie Hammer), a hunky, charismatic American who arrives at the villa and takes over Elio's bedroom,...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Director Luca Guadagnino's "Call Me by Your Name" has been winning plaudits from critics and has earned four Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. The lyrical love story between two closeted gay men is set in Italy in 1983.Timothée Chalamet plays Elio, a 17 year-old Jewish-American high school student who is also of Italian heritage. He lives a seemingly idyllic life in a villa located in rural Italy. He's a brilliant student, able to converse in multiple languages and also displays stunning musical talents.His father (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a professor of archaeology who annually invites a graduate student to spend six weeks at the villa to assist in cataloging materials pertaining to excavations of historical finds. This year's student is Oliver (wonderfully played by Armie Hammer), a hunky, charismatic American who arrives at the villa and takes over Elio's bedroom,...
- 2/17/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Mubi has struck gold once again.
After years of being best known as an art house alternative to the bloated, insufferable media streaming services like Netflix, Mubi has slowly but surely increased their foothold in the theatrical distribution game, gunning for a seat at that hotly contested table as well. Be it nabbing the UK theatrical rights to Miguel Gomes’ masterpiece Arabian Nights or coming stateside with 2016’s Baden Baden, the company has not only curated an expert streaming service but gotten into business with some of the most interesting and exciting voices in the film world today.
Director Philippe Garrel is the latest to join these ranks. Following up his 2016 masterpiece In The Shadow Of Women, Garrel has returned with a new, equally moving look at modern love and romance, Lover For A Day. Starring his daughter Esther Garrel (who is low key a highlight of Call Me By Your Name,...
After years of being best known as an art house alternative to the bloated, insufferable media streaming services like Netflix, Mubi has slowly but surely increased their foothold in the theatrical distribution game, gunning for a seat at that hotly contested table as well. Be it nabbing the UK theatrical rights to Miguel Gomes’ masterpiece Arabian Nights or coming stateside with 2016’s Baden Baden, the company has not only curated an expert streaming service but gotten into business with some of the most interesting and exciting voices in the film world today.
Director Philippe Garrel is the latest to join these ranks. Following up his 2016 masterpiece In The Shadow Of Women, Garrel has returned with a new, equally moving look at modern love and romance, Lover For A Day. Starring his daughter Esther Garrel (who is low key a highlight of Call Me By Your Name,...
- 1/26/2018
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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The Post [my review] pictured
Meryl Streep costars as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham at a critical juncture in the paper’s history. Cowritten by Liz Hannah. (male director)
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Attraction (Prityazhenie) [my review]
Irina Starshenbaum costars as a teenaged girl who falls for an alien just visiting Earth. (male director and writers)
Lover for a Day [IMDb]
Esther Garrel and Louise Chevillote costar as, respectively, the adult daughter of and the new lover of the same man in this French drama. Cowritten by Caroline Deruas-Garrel and Arlette Langmann. (male director)
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The Post [my review] pictured
Meryl Streep costars as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham at a critical juncture in the paper’s history. Cowritten by Liz Hannah. (male director)
limited
Attraction (Prityazhenie) [my review]
Irina Starshenbaum costars as a teenaged girl who falls for an alien just visiting Earth. (male director and writers)
Lover for a Day [IMDb]
Esther Garrel and Louise Chevillote costar as, respectively, the adult daughter of and the new lover of the same man in this French drama. Cowritten by Caroline Deruas-Garrel and Arlette Langmann. (male director)
Please let me know if I’ve missed any movies directed by, written by, or about women.
Please help me continue this work with your financial support. A recurring contribution or a one-time donation, even only $1, is a great help, and tells me that my work here is valued. Thank you. Links here for PayPal, Patreon, and other methods of donating.
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- 1/19/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
As “Call Me by Your Name” enters the awards race with plenty of heat, it is another boon for Lgbt-themed movies. Unlike “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins, Luca Guadagnino is an out gay man, but that didn’t change the way he approached Oliver and Elio’s sex scene.
In the year that “Moonlight” won the Academy Award for Best Picture, movies with gay characters have never been more accepted. Gay sex in those movies, however, is still a bit of a third rail. When making our list of the Best Sex Scenes of the 21st Century, a tender hand job on the beach had to suffice in order to include “Moonlight.” In “Call Me by Your Name,” Guadagnino’s lush love letter to young romance, the sex scenes between Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and his girlfriend, Marzia (Esther Garrel) are more explicit than those with Oliver (Armie Hammer), the handsome older American.
In the year that “Moonlight” won the Academy Award for Best Picture, movies with gay characters have never been more accepted. Gay sex in those movies, however, is still a bit of a third rail. When making our list of the Best Sex Scenes of the 21st Century, a tender hand job on the beach had to suffice in order to include “Moonlight.” In “Call Me by Your Name,” Guadagnino’s lush love letter to young romance, the sex scenes between Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and his girlfriend, Marzia (Esther Garrel) are more explicit than those with Oliver (Armie Hammer), the handsome older American.
- 12/22/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
(l-r) Armie Hammer as Oliver and Timothee Chalamet as Elio, in director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics ©
Director Luca Guadagnino explores coming-of-age and gay attraction in earlier, less-open times in Italy, in Call Me By Your Name. The film is the third in the Italian director’s “Desire” trilogy, following 2009’s I Am Love and 2015’s A Bigger Splash. Once again, Guadagnino explores passion in a beautiful Mediterranean setting.
Call Me By Your Name takes place in the summer of 1983 in scenic Lombardy, Italy, where 17-year-old American Elio Perlman (French actor Timothee Chalamet). Like all teens, he thinks of the tiny town where his family lives as impossibly dull, even though he and his parents (Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar) live in a 17th-century villa in an idyllic setting. His archaeology professor father always has a graduate student as a summer intern who lives with them.
Director Luca Guadagnino explores coming-of-age and gay attraction in earlier, less-open times in Italy, in Call Me By Your Name. The film is the third in the Italian director’s “Desire” trilogy, following 2009’s I Am Love and 2015’s A Bigger Splash. Once again, Guadagnino explores passion in a beautiful Mediterranean setting.
Call Me By Your Name takes place in the summer of 1983 in scenic Lombardy, Italy, where 17-year-old American Elio Perlman (French actor Timothee Chalamet). Like all teens, he thinks of the tiny town where his family lives as impossibly dull, even though he and his parents (Michael Stuhlbarg and Amira Casar) live in a 17th-century villa in an idyllic setting. His archaeology professor father always has a graduate student as a summer intern who lives with them.
- 12/22/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The critically-acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name opens this Friday, December 22nd in St. Louis at The Hi-Pointe and Plaza Frontenac. Be sure to look for Cate Marquis’ review later this week here at We Are Movie Geeks.
A special ticketing link has been set up: http://gwi.io/h68cg4?gwiCampaign=Sl
Call Me By Your Name, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman.
It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator,...
A special ticketing link has been set up: http://gwi.io/h68cg4?gwiCampaign=Sl
Call Me By Your Name, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman.
It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator,...
- 12/20/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name appears to be well on its way to box office and awards success, having earned both this year’s best opening weekend among limited releases and a Best Picture award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. The film is about an affair between Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious teenager, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), the graduate student who comes to Italy to assist Elio’s father in the summer of 1983. Like 2015’s A Bigger Splash, Guadagnino’s latest features lots of pretty images of beautiful people doing luxurious things, but, as Manohla Dargis contends at The New York Times, it has more than that to offer:Even so, the lyricism seduces as does fragile, ecstatic Elio. “Call Me by Your Name” is less a coming-of-age story, a tale of innocence and loss, than one about coming into sensibility. In that way, it is...
- 12/14/2017
- MUBI
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! Hope you all are enjoying your turkey and political arguments with that uncle who disagrees with every ideology of yours. Anyway, once food is over, film should be at the forefront of your mind, especially considering how great the slate right now is. Opening on Friday is one of the year’s most praised bits of cinema in Call Me By Your Name. It has been gaining fans ever since the 2017 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, running right up to earlier this week’s Film Independent Spirit Award nominations. Now, the viewing public can finally see what the fuss is all about. With few exceptions, it seems poised to live up to the hype. The movie is a coming of age story as well as a romance. Set during 1983 in Northern Italy, we follow the Perlman family, expats from America. There’s seventeen year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet...
- 11/23/2017
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
When “Call Me by Your Name” screened at the New York Film Festival last month, several threads from Timothée Chalamet’s 21-year-old life wove together. Above the sold-out, 1,100-seat audience at Alice Tully Hall, he watched the second half from the balcony, seated next to the actor who plays his lover, Armie Hammer, and their director, Luca Guadagnino. Onscreen, Chalamet’s character was 17, the same age he was when Guadagnino met him. At that time, Chalamet was a student at Fiorello H. Laguardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts — the Upper West Side inspiration for “Fame” — across the street.
Read More: ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review: Luca Guadagnino Delivers A Queer Masterpiece — Sundance 2017
In kindergarten, Chalamet was a lukewarm commercial actor. His “first moment of passion” for the craft came at age 12, seeing Heath Ledger’s Joker in “The Dark Knight.” “I just had no clue what...
Read More: ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Review: Luca Guadagnino Delivers A Queer Masterpiece — Sundance 2017
In kindergarten, Chalamet was a lukewarm commercial actor. His “first moment of passion” for the craft came at age 12, seeing Heath Ledger’s Joker in “The Dark Knight.” “I just had no clue what...
- 11/17/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Title: Call Me by Your Name Director: Luca Guadagnino Script: James Ivory Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois, Vanda Capriolo, Antonio Rimoldi, Elena Bucci, Marco Sgrosso, André Aciman, Peter Spears. Italian director, Luca Guadagnino returns to the big screen with a profound coming-of-age story. It is the […]
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- 11/16/2017
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy is famous for checking in on the relationship between Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) every 9 years, and Elio and Oliver from “Call Me By Your Name” will operate similarly on the big screen if Luca Guadagnino has his way. ScreenDaily reports that the Italian filmmaker is planning a sequel to his Sundance darling in which the movie will pick up with the characters three years later. Similar to the “Before” trilogy, actors Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer will match the ages of their characters.
“I want to do a sequel because Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel – they are all gems,” Guadagnino said during the BFI London Film Festival. “The texture we built together is very consistent. We created a place in which you believe in the world before them. They are young but they are growing up.
“I want to do a sequel because Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel – they are all gems,” Guadagnino said during the BFI London Film Festival. “The texture we built together is very consistent. We created a place in which you believe in the world before them. They are young but they are growing up.
- 10/16/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Luca Guadagnino: "But what I prefer for myself is to be invisible. To really try to - which is probably the greatest of the artifices - to reconstruct something that is not anymore." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name (Chiamami Con Il Tuo Nome), screenplay by James Ivory, based on the novel by André Aciman, shot by cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Guadagnino's upcoming Suspiria), stars Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet with Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel, and Amira Casar. At the press conference, moderated by New York Film Festival selection committee member Dennis Lim, the director, when I asked him about the work of costume designer Giulia Piersanti, gave a very detailed response.
Luca Guadagnino referenced the work of Milena Canonero on Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, Maurice Pialat's A nos amours, and...
Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name (Chiamami Con Il Tuo Nome), screenplay by James Ivory, based on the novel by André Aciman, shot by cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom (Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Guadagnino's upcoming Suspiria), stars Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet with Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel, and Amira Casar. At the press conference, moderated by New York Film Festival selection committee member Dennis Lim, the director, when I asked him about the work of costume designer Giulia Piersanti, gave a very detailed response.
Luca Guadagnino referenced the work of Milena Canonero on Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, Maurice Pialat's A nos amours, and...
- 10/4/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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