The producers of Amazon Studio’s upcoming remake of Suspiria treated critics and press to a tasteful little lunch today, as part of the studio’s planned presentation at this week’s CinemaCon in Vegas. The menu reportedly included many of the finer things in life: Quinoa salad. White chocolate tarts. Footage of a woman…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino has already sketched out the beginning of a sequel to his wildly popular film, and it sounds like a lot of it will involve the AIDS epidemic in the mid-’80s. He says he envisions Call Me Your Name as the first entry in a long series…
According to Variety, Jennifer Lawrence has signed on to star in Burial Rites, a new film from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino. The movie is based on Hannah Kent’s 2013 novel of the same name, which Variety says is about Agnes Magnusdottir, “the last woman to be publicly executed in Iceland in 1830.”…
This years awards season is shaping up to be a heated competition, with no clear favorites coming out among the handful of groups that have announced their end-of-the-year lists. The National Board Of Review loved Steven Spielberg’s Oscar machine The Post, the New York Film Critics Circle preferred Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird
The Golden Globes may have no fucking idea how to handle an idiosyncratic horror film like Get Out, but the Gotham Independent Film Awards has a simple answer: Just give it some justly deserved honors, labels be damned.
In Luca Guadagnino’s sensitive, sensual Call Me By Your Name, a bright teenage boy living in the picturesque Italian countryside falls into a passionate summer fling with an older man, the American graduate student who’s come to study for the season. That’s about all there is to the story, a tale of gradual seduction…
Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name stars Armie Hammer as a 24-year-old student who visits Italy in the early ‘80s and gradually develops a relationship with a cool and sensitive 17-year-old played by Timothée Chalamet, and it was a big hit at Sundance. This new trailer is like a mini romantic drama all on its own,…
Now that her standard-issue space vest and dusty dungarees have been returned to the Lucasflm costume department, Felicity Jones is donning a tutu. The Hollywood Reporter has details on what it describes as a “hot pitch” starring Jones, a feature-length adaptation of Swan Lake. Unlike Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan,…
Every screening at Sundance begins the same way: with a short video officially introducing the festival and acknowledging its sponsors. Most of the major public fests now include some variation on this branded bumper—Toronto has a whole maddening block of them, seemingly designed to destroy what’s left of the press…
Sufjan Stevens’ Fifty States Project has been stalled for the last decade or so while he does other critically acclaimed things, but rather than spending his free time on that protracted, gimmicky project, he’s decided to do something a little more straightforward. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stevens is…
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It would be easy to classify Marianne Lane, Tilda Swinton’s character in A Bigger Splash, as an aging rock star. But really, that distinction comes more from the context of the movie than the actress herself. Swinton is well into her 50s, but here, as ever, she maintains a kind of ageless, alien veneer—the same…
Tilda Swinton and Italian director Luca Guadagnino last worked together on 2010’s lush I Am Love. While that tale of lust, family, and food (so much delicious-looking food!) was well-received, it seems to have flown under the radar a bit. This year, the two are reuniting in hopes of making (forgive us) a bigger splash…
A Bigger Splash—the title presumably taken from David Hockney’s celebrated painting of a California pool—marks director Luca Guadagnino’s first feature since his breakthrough, I Am Love. A remake of Jacques Deray’s 1969 French hit La Piscine, the movie reunites Guadagnino with I Am Love star Tilda Swinton, who takes…
Last we checked, David Gordon Green’s purported remake of Suspiria was as doomed as a ballet student flailing around in a pit of barbed wire. But, according to HitFix, fans of Dario Argento’s 1977 horror masterpiece shouldn’t slip on their black leather killing gloves just yet: The project lives, and is reportedly…
