Movie Review: "Call Me by Your Name" Is So Absorbing, You’ll Want to Live Inside of It
Luca Guadagnino’s films are so tangible, you could live inside of them, and you’d be happy to stay there. In Call Me by Your Name, music from a car-stereo echoes off a cobblestone street; lips make smacking noises against a moist peach; sunlight bounces off the mildly-roiling water of a rock pool. These sights and sounds alone don’t make a movie, b...
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‘Call Me By Your Name’ Scores Year’s Best Average Opener At $101K; ‘Darkest Hour’ Has Robust Start – Specialty Box Office
All the signs were there that Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name would have a robust opening, and the film, starring Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg came through fabulously this Thanksgiving weekend. The Sony Pictures Classics feature had the year’s highest per theater average opening at $101,219. Call Me...
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The Story Behind the Italian Villa in Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino—the Italian movie director whose 2009’s I Am Love, starring Tilda Swinton, raised the bar for sensual set decoration—assembled an ace creative team for his new film, Call Me By Your Name, which opens in the United States on November 24. James Ivory, the Oscar-winning director and co-founder of Merchant Ivory Productions, wrote the s...
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