Tag: Luca Guadagnino
Interview: Dea Kulumbegashvili – April
After making its debut at the Venice Film Festival and touring other prestigious autumn festivals like Toronto, San Sebastian, London BFI, and NYFF, it...
April | Review
A Vindicated Woman: Kulumbegashvili Constructs Potent, Profound Study in Body Horror
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves,”...
2025 Sundance: Hailey Gates, Katarina Zhu & Eva Victor in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the batch of ten 2025 U.S. Dramatic Competition offerings we find the likes of actress Hailey Gates' feature debut Atropia - produced by...
Queer | Review
(Disem)Body Talk: Guadagnino Pays Homage to the Paradoxical Beat Pariah
If Ayn Rand had dared to write a character who was a genius gay white...
A Pain That I’m Used To: Metrograph Pictures Tables Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’
Perhaps the landmark sophomore feature of 2024, Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili has found a safe space in the U.S. via newish distributor Metrograph Pictures...
2024 TIFF: Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet, Pedro Almodóvar & Maura Delpero Land in Toronto
Filmmaker Brady Corbet will have to schlep twenty-six reels from Venice Italy to Toronto's Pearson Airport as The Brutalist is confirmed as part of...
2024 Venice: Corbet, Guadagnino, Haugerud, Kulumbegashvili, Salles, Tsangari & Yeo Siew Hua In Golden Lion Competition
21 films were selected for the 2024 Venice Film Festival competition and in the pack we find some surprises and several shoe-ins for the...
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Luca Guadagnino, Brady Corbet & Dea Kulumbegashvili
Pedro Paramo
Dir. Rodrigo Prieto
Prod: Rafael Ley, Stacy Perskie, Francisco Ramos
A Netflix backed project that went into production in March of last year, Mexican cinematographer...
Enea | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
Deal or No Deal: Castellitto Distracted by Design in Drug Pusher Drama
Director Pietro Castellitto embarks on a familial affair with sophomore film Enea, in...
2023 Venice: Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” is Game, Set, Match as Festival Opener
Tipped to be an out of competition selection for MGM/Amazon Studios once they moved back their August release date, Luca Guadagnino's Challengers will open...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #112. Luca Guadagnino’s An Even Bigger Splash
An Even Bigger Splash
Luca Guadagnino will gift us with the American romantic sports comedy Challengers this year and will be working on Queer and...
Bones and All | Review
All the Fine Young Cannibals: Guadagnino Crafts Grisly, Devouring Love Story
“It’s amazing what you can do with a cheap piece of meat if you...
2022 Indie Spirits Awards Noms: The Cathedral, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Murina & Aftersun Are Glowing
Everything Everywhere All At Once, Tár, Women Talking and Bones and All are the heavyweight indies that will be properly feted the day before...
2022 NYFF: James Ivory, Martin Scorsese, Schrader’s She Said, Chukwu’s Till, & Polley’s Women Talking in Spotlight Section
And finally, it is the New York Film Festival that will have lassoed the highly anticipated world premiere to Maria Schrader’s She Said. Initially,...
2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!
With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part I) Iñárritu, Dominik, Zlotowski & Escalante
This week we throw ourselves into predicting the world premiere options for both the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals. We begin by looking...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
2022 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Luca Guadagnino’s Bones & All
He had Call Me By Your Name have its world premiere in Park City, so Luca Guadagnino's first American shot film project in Bones...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
IndieSponge Episode 6 – Wong Kar-Wai Plants “Blossoms”, Guadagnino Snorts “Scarface” & Blanchett registers for “Armageddon Time”
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, Kevin Jagernauth and I talk about the 2020 Cannes hors les murs and the films that'll float around...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #124. Born to Be Murdered – Ferdinando Cito Filomarino
Born to Be Murdered
Italy’s Ferdinando Cito Filomarino (great nephew of Luchino Visconti) looks set for an international breakout with sophomore feature Born to Be...
The Conversation: Producer Rodrigo Teixeira
Brazilian based producer Rodrigo Teixeira established Sao Paolo company RT Features in 2005 and has become an increasingly notable major player in a broad array...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
Through the Looking Glass: The Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020 – Picks #100 to #11
While we look forward to a plentiful 2019 as far as foreign cinema is concerned (of which we highlighted #300-151 and our countdown #150-1 to anticipate...
The Conversation: The Top 20 Theatrical Releases of 2018
It was a strong year for wicked and weird in cinema---if you knew where to look for it. A strong showing of women directors...
Suspiria | Review
Dance the Dance of Another: Guadagnino Goes Deeper & Weirder in Ambitious Argento Remake.
Luca Guadagnino has always been a supremely divisive filmmaker, capable of...
2018 Venice Film Festival – Tommaso’s Top 5 Most Anticipated: Guadagnino, Loznitsa, Mieli, Nugroho & Corbet
It’s a particularly rich programme in Venice for the 2018 edition of the Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica. Director Alberto Barbera certainly got the attention...
2018 Venice Film Festival: Jennifer Kent, Alverson, Corbet, Schnabel & Coen Bros. in Comp
Surprise, surprise. At the end of the day, Ethan and Joel Coen's The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a feature film (not a series)...
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Films of 2017
Some, including the American literary scholar James English, argue that artists shouldn’t care about awards like the Oscars. Author of “The Economy of Prestige,”...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #20. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Suspiria
Dario Argento’s 1977 giallo Suspiria is one of the most beloved horror films of all time, an eerie splash of old European glamour, decadent...
Video: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Sony Pictures Classics released Call Me by Your Name this past weekend and was the top indie money making opening weekend this year and...
2018 Indie Spirit Noms: Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” Leads Pack with 6, Benny Safdie Lands 3
It's the head-scratching nominations process where Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird is good enough for the Best Feature category and picks up four nominations in...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks: Dee Rees, Chris Smith & Luca Guadagnino this November
IONCINEMA.com’s Top 3 Critics’ Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? We’re...
Reviews & Reflections: Östlund’s The Square Leads Top 5 NYFF Films That Lived Up To The Hype
As the New York Film Festival comes to a close, so marks the end of the 2017 festival season: a year-long tsunami that began...
Guess Who’s Coming to the Awards Dinner? Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” Leads 2017 Gotham Award Noms
Today's Gotham Awards nominees announcement proves that the film's themselves have their own against all odds narratives. With the five noms for the Best...
2017 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: Samuel Maoz & Andrea Pallaoro Lead Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
Naturally not by intent or design, this year my number of films viewed actually matched the festival edition number. My main takeaway from the...
The Conversation: Venice 2017 – Those Who Were Not Named
With Locarno and Venice’s recently announced competition line-ups, the last stand as far as 2017 festival circuit competition now sits with the soon to...
TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio
If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...
Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Sundance Film Fest Top Ten
In what ended up being one of the snowiest and coldest editions of Sundance in recent memory, there was no shortage of pleasant cinematic...
2017 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
2017 promises to be another strong year for Sundance, hosting a bevy of highly anticipated titles in another formidable Premieres section, while its US...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #23. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Suspiria
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: David Kajganich
Considering his dry spell between 2009's I Am Love and 2015's A Bigger Splash, it's hard to believe we're going...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #33. Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: Luca Guadagnino, James Ivory, Walter Fasano
A surprise announcement came when Luca Guadagnino was in the middle of...
A Bigger Splash | Review
The Weight of Water: Guadagnino Trawls the Deep End in Euro Potboiler Overhaul
It’s been seven years since Luca Guadagnino’s 2009 international breakout I Am...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2017: An Introduction
As we were putting together our projections for most anticipated films due in 2017, we noticed there were too many notable titles to be...
2015 Venice Film Festival: Guadagnino, Sokurov, Kaufman, Bellocchio & Fukunaga Compete for Golden Lion
With the exception of Cary Fukunaga's Beasts of No Nation and Tom Hooper's The Danish Girl, the nineteen other films in Venice Film Festival's...
Cinema Italiano: 2015 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Now that we’ve come out of the Cannes ether, we can examine several of the names glaringly absent from the lineup that may potentially...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...
Fox Searchlight Take a Dip with Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash”
Fox Searchlight folks have brought out their swim gear and might be getting ready for a Cannes Film Festival splash with Luca Guadagnino's highly anticipated...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #19. Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash
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...
