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Glory Day For Call Me By Your Name

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Luca Guadagnino‘s Call My By Your Name was the big winner in today’s Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards, taking the Best Picture trophy, splitting the Best Director trophy between Guadagnino and The Shape of Water‘s Guillermo del Toro, and with Timothee Chalamet taking the Best Actor prize. On top of which The Florida Project‘s … Read more

Call Me By Your Name‘s Big Night

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Hollywood Elsewhere + Tatyana Antropova attended last night’s big AFI Film Fest screening at the TCL Chinese, and then the big after-party at the Hollywood Roosevelt. It was my third viewing, and it didn’t diminish in the slightest. This film is full of little rivulets and off-angles and cross-corner pocket drops. I easily could see … Read more

Call Me By Your Name Is “A Film About Family”

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During Sunday’s sublime outdoor lunch at La Lampara, Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino mentioned a kind of selling point about his brilliant film, which premiered to ecstatic raves during last January’s Sundance Film Festival and which Sony Pictures Classics will open on 11.24 — about as Oscar-baity a release date as you can … Read more

SPC Has Grandslam Contender With Call Me By Your Name, But How Will They Handle It?

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There’s no question that Luca Guadagnino‘s Call Me By Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics, 11.24), which premiered two and a half months ago at Sundance and then screened at the Berlinale, will be regarded as a major Best Picture contender once the 2017 award season begins around Labor Day. But how aggressively will SPC push … Read more

Yesterday’s Tourette’s Outburst at the BAFTAs Was, To Some Regrettable Extent, Commentary

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The Tourette’s-afflicted John Davidson, whose personal saga is dramatized in Kirk Jones‘ I Swear, made a mess out of yesterday’s BAFTA awards. To no one’s condemnation, Davidson blurted out the N-word while Sinners‘ Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. The BB1 footage has since been deleted, of course. BAFTA host Alan Cumming: … Read more

Mexican Ballet-Dancer Boytoy Travels North, Makes Trouble

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After months of HE irritation and complaining due to an apparent commitment on the part of Greenwich Entertainment to under-promote if not suppress Michel Franco‘s Dreams and only days before the film’s limited 2.27 opening, I’ve finally seen this 98-minute film and have come away…well, certainly not annoyed or negative-minded, as some critics have been. … Read more

Hardcore Chalamet Isn’t Fooling Around

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Of all the high-craft, seriously aspirational, go-for-broke Timothee Chalamet films that he’s starred or costarred in since the mid teens, I’m not likely to re-watch The King and Beautiful Boy…sorry. And I’ll definitely never, ever re-watch Interstellar, a movie that I truly hated with all my heart and soul both times. MARTY SUPREME MARTY SUPREME … Read more

Siegel’s Smear Piece About Josh Safdie Failing To Immediately Halt “Good Time” Scene Following Lewd On-Set Behavior Is Mostly A Not-Much-Burger

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To hear it from Page Six Hollywood‘s Tatiana Siegel, indie filmmaking bros Josh and Benny Safdie parted company in 2023 over a sexually coarse, clearly illegal incident that happened during the filming of Good Time (A24, 8.11.17), a frenzied, super-chaotic urban crime flick. Having spoken to”multiple” Good Time sources, Siegel reports that “a 17-year-old girl” … Read more

“Train Dreams” Is A Malick-y Forest-Primeval Meditation That (a) Initially Intrigues Due To Soulful 1.37 Treescapes and Joel Edgerton’s Minimalist Acting, But (b) Gradually Drains Your Soul Due To A Total Absence of Story Tension…Pollack’s Similar “Jeremiah Johnson” Was Better

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Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar’s Train Dreams (Netflix, 11.21) is a handsome, inoffensive spiritual snore of a period eye–bath film. I sat there like a sack of Idaho potatoes in my IFC Center seat. Not bored but waiting for some sort of narrative edge or obsessive psychology or story tension angle (like the “dirt-poor scruffs … Read more