A curious thing happened when the first trailer for “Challengers” came out: People started getting really, really weird online about the suggestion that the three main characters — played by Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor — have a threesome. It prompted memes and hand-wringing alike, as if this was the first time any actor in film history had ever pretended to engage in sex onscreen — never mind that the film ultimately doesn’t have an actual sex scene at all, instead withholding from the audience in order to build up the lingering sexual tension that eats away at all sides of its love triangle. The fervor around the possibility of sex in “Challengers” affirmed something that has been obvious for years now: Cinema, especially American cinema, is starved for films that sizzle with genuine sensuality.
So thank god that Luca Guadagnino is around. A hit or miss filmmaker, Guadagnino is nonetheless...
So thank god that Luca Guadagnino is around. A hit or miss filmmaker, Guadagnino is nonetheless...
- 4/26/2024
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
"I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema." –Luca Guadagnino. His latest film Challengers (final trailer here) is finally landing in theaters for everyone to enjoy this week. In celebration of this release, the UK movie magazine Little White Lies and video editor Luís Azevedo have created a supercut highlighting "The Colors Of Luca Guadagnino." It's a quick video at just 2-1/2 minutes featuring shots from almost all of his films, showing how he works his way through hot and cold colors depending on the mood. No matter what, his film always have vivid colors. Guadagnino's exceptional filmography includes: The Protagonists (1999), Melissa P. (2005), I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), Call Me By Your Name (2017), Suspiria...
- 4/22/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The Zurich Film Festival will honor Italian director and screenwriter Luca Guadagnino at its 18th edition, which runs Sept. 22-Oct. 2.
He will receive its “A Tribute To…” award on Sept. 30 before the screening of his latest film “Bones and All,” which plays in the Gala Premiere section, and will hold a public masterclass on Oct. 1. The film world premieres in Venice tomorrow.
Guadagnino, born in Palermo in 1971, has been one of the most internationally sought-after directors since the success of “Call Me By Your Name” in 2017, which Guadagnino presented in person at the Zurich fest.
“Luca Guadagnino is a filmmaker who tells incredibly powerful visual stories and surprises time after time. With his distinctive style, the European director has also managed to make a name for himself abroad and is at the peak of his creative powers,” Christian Jungen, the festival’s artistic director, said.
“Guadagnino is also not afraid...
He will receive its “A Tribute To…” award on Sept. 30 before the screening of his latest film “Bones and All,” which plays in the Gala Premiere section, and will hold a public masterclass on Oct. 1. The film world premieres in Venice tomorrow.
Guadagnino, born in Palermo in 1971, has been one of the most internationally sought-after directors since the success of “Call Me By Your Name” in 2017, which Guadagnino presented in person at the Zurich fest.
“Luca Guadagnino is a filmmaker who tells incredibly powerful visual stories and surprises time after time. With his distinctive style, the European director has also managed to make a name for himself abroad and is at the peak of his creative powers,” Christian Jungen, the festival’s artistic director, said.
“Guadagnino is also not afraid...
- 9/1/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Happy 50th Birthday to Director Luca Guadagnino today! Here's a look back at his little seen sophomore feature
by Jason Adams
For Luca Guadagnino, the process of making his second feature film Melissa P. in 2005 was not a good one. The signs were all there in advance, if he hadn't been lured in by the big American studio Sony that was financing the film -- for one, well, Sony itself. The studio ended up being terrifically intrusive, shoving on a puritanical ending and even hiring an on-set handler for the filmmaker, and he's said he feels the finished project was more their work than his own. But even earlier than that he'd only been able to make it halfway through the novel One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed on which the film was based. A sort of modern The Story of O it tells the loosely autobiographical story...
by Jason Adams
For Luca Guadagnino, the process of making his second feature film Melissa P. in 2005 was not a good one. The signs were all there in advance, if he hadn't been lured in by the big American studio Sony that was financing the film -- for one, well, Sony itself. The studio ended up being terrifically intrusive, shoving on a puritanical ending and even hiring an on-set handler for the filmmaker, and he's said he feels the finished project was more their work than his own. But even earlier than that he'd only been able to make it halfway through the novel One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed on which the film was based. A sort of modern The Story of O it tells the loosely autobiographical story...
- 8/10/2021
- by JA
- FilmExperience
After receiving critical acclaim at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Luca Guadagnino’s Italian masterpiece, “Call Me by Your Name,” will screen at Berlinale. Based on André Aciman’s beloved 2007 novel of the same name, the drama chronicles a romance between a 17-year old boy and a handsome American intern who is staying at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.
In a new clip shared by Berlinale’s website, audiences witness the young man, Elio’s (Timothée Chalamet), first interaction with Oliver (Armie Hammer). Oliver is seen arriving to the Perlman estate and greeted by Mr. Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his wife. Elio is then called down and takes Oliver’s bags to his room.
In the beginning Elio is somewhat distant towards Oliver until then the two begin to spend more time together. Per the website’s film description, “Elio begins to make tentative overtures towards...
In a new clip shared by Berlinale’s website, audiences witness the young man, Elio’s (Timothée Chalamet), first interaction with Oliver (Armie Hammer). Oliver is seen arriving to the Perlman estate and greeted by Mr. Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg) and his wife. Elio is then called down and takes Oliver’s bags to his room.
In the beginning Elio is somewhat distant towards Oliver until then the two begin to spend more time together. Per the website’s film description, “Elio begins to make tentative overtures towards...
- 2/10/2017
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
After a five-year hiatus from the directing scene, it is as though filmmaker Luca Guadagnino is making up for lost time, now that he’s making serious headway on both A Bigger Splash – teeing up a reunion with Tilda Swinton in the process – and his remake of Suspiria.
But as The Film Stage reveals, another of Guadagnino’s creative ventures is inching closer to release, now that Call Me By Your Name has officially entered production. Starring Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg and Timothée Chalamet, the movie is pitched as an adaptation of André Aciman’s eponymous novel, and will be co-written by James Ivory (A Room With A View).
Rooted in an ’80s setting, Call Me By Your Name chronicles the blossoming romance between two young Italian men. There’s no mention of a release timeline in today’s report, but an official synopsis does outline the story at the heart of Guadagnino’s latest.
But as The Film Stage reveals, another of Guadagnino’s creative ventures is inching closer to release, now that Call Me By Your Name has officially entered production. Starring Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg and Timothée Chalamet, the movie is pitched as an adaptation of André Aciman’s eponymous novel, and will be co-written by James Ivory (A Room With A View).
Rooted in an ’80s setting, Call Me By Your Name chronicles the blossoming romance between two young Italian men. There’s no mention of a release timeline in today’s report, but an official synopsis does outline the story at the heart of Guadagnino’s latest.
- 5/31/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
A Bigger Splash
Director: Luca Guadagnino // Writer: David Kajganich
It’s hard to believe that it’s been six years since Luca Guadagnino’s art house favorite I Am Love (2009) swept through Venice and Toronto, starring a delectable Tilda Swinton in an homage to Visconti. That was Guadagnino’s third and most acclaimed film (previously he’s directed Melissa P. in 2005 and 1999’s The Protagonists, also starring Swinton). After several experimental projects and documentaries, he’s signed onto several projects that never took off, including most notably an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist with Isabelle Huppert, Sigourney Weaver, David Cronenberg, and Denis Lavant all lined up to star (the project is now under the direction of Benoit Jacquot and will film with mostly unknowns sometime in 2015). Out of the blue, he announced he would be making A Bigger Splash, a remake of the 1969 Jacques Deray film La Piscine,...
Director: Luca Guadagnino // Writer: David Kajganich
It’s hard to believe that it’s been six years since Luca Guadagnino’s art house favorite I Am Love (2009) swept through Venice and Toronto, starring a delectable Tilda Swinton in an homage to Visconti. That was Guadagnino’s third and most acclaimed film (previously he’s directed Melissa P. in 2005 and 1999’s The Protagonists, also starring Swinton). After several experimental projects and documentaries, he’s signed onto several projects that never took off, including most notably an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist with Isabelle Huppert, Sigourney Weaver, David Cronenberg, and Denis Lavant all lined up to star (the project is now under the direction of Benoit Jacquot and will film with mostly unknowns sometime in 2015). Out of the blue, he announced he would be making A Bigger Splash, a remake of the 1969 Jacques Deray film La Piscine,...
- 1/9/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Us director James Gray to preside over main competition jury, as previously announced.
Marco Müller, artistic director of the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17), has announced the jury members who will complete the Competition Jury.
Jury president James Gray will be joined by:
Verónica Chen (Argentina);Luca Guadagnino (Italy);Aleksei Guskov (Russia);Noémie Lvovsky (France);Amir Naderi (Iran);Zhang Yuan (China).
(See below for more details on the jury)
The Jury will confer the feature films in Competition the:
Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best FilmBest Director AwardSpecial Jury PrizeBest Actor AwardBest Actress AwardAward for Emerging Actor or ActressAward for Best Technical ContributionAward for Best Screenplay.
It was also announced today that Italian actress Anna Foglietta will host the awards ceremony on Nov 16.
The actress, whose credits include Anton Corbijn’s 2010 thriller The American, starring Geroge Clooney, will continue to do the honours through the second part of the evening, when the Maverick...
Marco Müller, artistic director of the 8th Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17), has announced the jury members who will complete the Competition Jury.
Jury president James Gray will be joined by:
Verónica Chen (Argentina);Luca Guadagnino (Italy);Aleksei Guskov (Russia);Noémie Lvovsky (France);Amir Naderi (Iran);Zhang Yuan (China).
(See below for more details on the jury)
The Jury will confer the feature films in Competition the:
Golden Marc’Aurelio Award for Best FilmBest Director AwardSpecial Jury PrizeBest Actor AwardBest Actress AwardAward for Emerging Actor or ActressAward for Best Technical ContributionAward for Best Screenplay.
It was also announced today that Italian actress Anna Foglietta will host the awards ceremony on Nov 16.
The actress, whose credits include Anton Corbijn’s 2010 thriller The American, starring Geroge Clooney, will continue to do the honours through the second part of the evening, when the Maverick...
- 10/29/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Golden Globe and Emmy nominated Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez ( Carlos , Zero Dark Thirty ), Spanish actress María Valverde ( Melissa P. ), Danny Huston ( Magic City , X-Men Origins: Wolverine ), Imanol Arias ( El Lute ) and Gary Lewis ( Billy Elliot , Gangs of New York ) will topline Libertador , a modern epic about the life of Simón Bolívar (1783 . 1830). Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America.s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America....
- 6/20/2012
- Comingsoon.net
I Am Love has opened some huge doors for Italian helmer Luca Guadagnino. Currently keepoing busy with docu films Inconscio italiano (showing at Venice this month) and Bertolucci on Bertolucci (docu due out next year), he has been developing Auntie Mame and Corsica 72 as his potential feature film projects - but now it's a remake of Jacques Deray's “The Swimming Pool" - the 1969 pic starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and a very young Jane Birkin that looks to be his next. Ttb report that Jeremy Renner and Mia Wasikowska are currently attached, while Noomi Rapace might be another candidate to fill out the screen foursome in A Bigger Splash. Look for this to be high up on our most anticipated list if production begins this year. Gist: This follows Marianne and Paul (Renner), a pair of American lovers are vacationing near St.-Tropez when Marianne invites Harry, a former lover,...
- 8/19/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
After programming Le Quattro Volte in last year's Directors' Fortnight line-up, Frederic Boyer has turned towards Calabria (the toe portion of Italy) once again - confirming to Variety that Alice Rohrwacher's debut narrative film "Corpo Celeste," will be among the films included in the sidebar and which also means that it will also be up for the Camera d'or award for Best First Feature (the only award that includes all the Cannes sections). If the name rings a bell, it's because doc-filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher is the sister of Alba Rohrwacher -- the actress who played the adult daughter role in Luca Guadagnino's I Am Love (she was also in his 2005 film Melissa P.). The Rohrwacher family are German-Italians -- and certainly some of their displaced DNA is carried over into this drama which when literally translated means "Celestial Body". The Calabria-set drama is about a 13-year-old girl (Yle...
- 4/4/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
This weekend we received the first word on a new anthology film coming from producer Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods, Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show) -- Italian Ghost Stories.
The project consists of five segments helmed by a group of young first-time Italian directors as follows:
Ep.1: Offline di Andrea Gagliardi
Ep.2: Fiaba Di Un Mostro di Stefano Prolli
Ep.3: La Medium di Roberto Palma
Ep.4: 17 Novembre di Tommaso Agnese
Ep.5: Urla In Collina di Omar Protani e Marco Farina
The movie's disturbing “ghost stories” were influenced by the classic Masters of Horror such as Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and Jack Clayton, but they are narrated in the Italian way and visual style.
Italian Ghost Stories is being filmed entirely with the Red One Camera and stars such young Italian talents as Daniele De Angelis (What the Hell Am I Doing Here?...
The project consists of five segments helmed by a group of young first-time Italian directors as follows:
Ep.1: Offline di Andrea Gagliardi
Ep.2: Fiaba Di Un Mostro di Stefano Prolli
Ep.3: La Medium di Roberto Palma
Ep.4: 17 Novembre di Tommaso Agnese
Ep.5: Urla In Collina di Omar Protani e Marco Farina
The movie's disturbing “ghost stories” were influenced by the classic Masters of Horror such as Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and Jack Clayton, but they are narrated in the Italian way and visual style.
Italian Ghost Stories is being filmed entirely with the Red One Camera and stars such young Italian talents as Daniele De Angelis (What the Hell Am I Doing Here?...
- 12/4/2010
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The Last House In The Woods director Gabriele Albanesi appears determined to resuscitate Italy's once-proud horror heritage. And he's bringing some friends along for the ride.
Albanesi has just produced a five part anthology of ghost stories titled Fantasmi, the individual segments directed by a crop of young up and comers. Here's the official word.
Now available the Official Trailer of "Italian Ghost Stories", an anthology horror movie produced by Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods, Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show) and directed by a bunch of young first-time Italian directors: Andrea Gagliardi, Tommaso Agnese, Stefano Prolli, Roberto Palma, Omar Protani & Marco Farina.
The movie collects five disturbing "ghost-stories" under the influence of classic Masters of Horror as Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise and Jack Clayton, but narrated in the Italian way and visual style.
"Italian Ghost Stories" is entirely filmed with Red One Camera and stars young...
Albanesi has just produced a five part anthology of ghost stories titled Fantasmi, the individual segments directed by a crop of young up and comers. Here's the official word.
Now available the Official Trailer of "Italian Ghost Stories", an anthology horror movie produced by Gabriele Albanesi (The Last House in the Woods, Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show) and directed by a bunch of young first-time Italian directors: Andrea Gagliardi, Tommaso Agnese, Stefano Prolli, Roberto Palma, Omar Protani & Marco Farina.
The movie collects five disturbing "ghost-stories" under the influence of classic Masters of Horror as Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise and Jack Clayton, but narrated in the Italian way and visual style.
"Italian Ghost Stories" is entirely filmed with Red One Camera and stars young...
- 12/4/2010
- Screen Anarchy
- Ioncinema.com is proud to feature the rookie and veteran filmmakers showcased and nurtured at the 2008 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. This is part of collection of emailer interviews conducted prior to the festival - we would like to thank the filmmakers for their time and the hardworking publicists for making this possible.] Anna Negri Can you discuss the genesis of this project� How did the initial idea come about? Are there elements that are autobiographical? What was Giovanna Mori's role in the writing process and finally, how did this become a story you wanted to tell?Riprendimi is about a separation and it has some autobiographical elements but as I was writing I realized that they were pretty universal. Now the most eccentric or absurd moments of the films are the ones I adapted from my personal life while the most "normal" were invented but belong
- 1/18/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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