Top Ten Movies of 2024 — Number Four
Luca Guadagnino knocks the audience around like a tennis ball in a marathon rally Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2024 — Number Four
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Then Playing — Queer; Lee; Evil Does Not Exist
Reviews of movies directed by Luca Guadagnino, Ellen Kuras, and Ryusuke Hamaguchi Continue reading Then Playing — Queer; Lee; Evil Does Not Exist
Now Playing — Challengers
Game, set, match. Continue reading Now Playing — Challengers
Now Playing — Bones and All
It’s quite a lovely thing, director Luca Guadagnino wants us to know, when outcasts find each other. Based on a novel by Camille DeAngelis, Bones and All follows Maren (Taylor Russell), an eighteen-year-old girl who’s spent most of her life … Continue reading Now Playing — Bones and All
Now Playing — Suspiria
I fully acknowledged being tickled that Luca Guadagnino’s follow-up feature to the tender, elegant Call By Your Name is the the precise opposite, in almost every respect. Suspiria is officially a remake of the 1977 horror film of the same … Continue reading Now Playing — Suspiria
Playing Catch-Up — The Sisters Brothers; Our Brand is Crisis; A Bigger Splash
The Sisters Brothers (Jacques Audiard, 2018). The English-language film debut of French director Jacques Audiard rambunctiously tinkers with one of most storied Hollywood genres without ever quite figuring out what sort of neo-Western it wants to be. Sometimes it aims … Continue reading Playing Catch-Up — The Sisters Brothers; Our Brand is Crisis; A Bigger Splash
Top Ten Movies of 2017 — Number Seven
There is a truism of storytelling that I think uniquely consistent in its accuracy: Intense specificity is the key to creating a fiction that is strikingly universal. I well remember 1983, the year in which Call Me By Your Name … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2017 — Number Seven
Now Playing — Call Me By Your Name
In the early nineteen-eighties, a 17-year-old named Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is, by many measures, enjoying a charmed life. He spends summers in a family house in Italy, where his professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg) goes to be closer to a recent … Continue reading Now Playing — Call Me By Your Name
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