Tag: Call Me By Your Name
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The Onion Celebrates the ‘Peach-f—king’ Scene in ‘Call Me by Your Name’ — Watch
The Onion has been especially hilarious this awards season, and its latest video is no exception: an analysis of the best peach-banging scenes in “Call Me by Your Name.” Only one such scene exists in the actual movie, of course, but don’t let that mar your enjoyment.Presented as an audio commentary recorded by two of…
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AFI Fest Unveils 2018 Dates & Submission Deadlines
The 32nd annual AFI Fest is set for November 8–15 and is now accepting entries for feature, documentary, experimental, animated and short films. The festival has played a key role in launching awards-season contenders into the marketplace and is recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Oscar-qualifying festival for the…
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This Year’s Oscar Nominees Get Gorgeous New Posters from Shutterstock
The Oscars are almost here, and Shutterstock is getting in on the action by reimaging the posters for this year’s nominees. While most of the official posters for the nominees were pretty good (although the less said about the bland one for Call Me by Your Name, the better), Shutterstock’s team of designers decided to…
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Spirit Awards Keep Independent Streak
As the ceremony eases into its 33rd year, the Film Independent Spirit Awards confront an enviable dilemma. Whereas the indie kudofest, held in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, once honored films so far outside the Oscars’ orbit that they may as well have been in different star systems, in recent times the…
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Bernardo Bertolucci on Fellow Italian Nonconformist Luca Guadagnino
Bernardo Bertolucci and Luca Guadagnino hail from different generations, but both Italian directors have a bent for making sensual English-language films. And each knows what it’s like to be embraced by critics and audiences abroad but snubbed at home, as Bertolucci tells Variety in a rare interview.Perhaps that experience has helped fuel the two auteurs’…
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Oscars: A Season of #MeToo, Guns, Oprah Winfrey and, Oh Yeah, Awards
Decades from now, film lovers will remember 2017 as the year of “Stronger,” Jake Gyllenhaal, Hong Chau in “Downsizing,” Chadwick Boseman in “Marshall,” and great work by Luca Guadagnino, James Mangold, Alexander Payne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Giacchino. These are just a few of the names who serve as a…
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Who Should Win at Sunday’s Oscars? Cast Your Vote!
With under a week until Oscar night, Variety is polling readers to see their predictions on who will take home the top prizes.Though it’s unlikely any category will be as dramatic as last year’s best picture mix-up, the biggest night in film is still a competitive race.Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water,” which has…
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‘Final Portrait’ Trailer: Geoffrey Rush Paints Armie Hammer and Tests His Patience in Stanley Tucci’s Return to Directing — Watch
Armie Hammer’s “Call Me by Your Name” follow-up is another Sony Pictures Classics period piece that casts him as an American on a European excursion.In Paris-set “Final Portrait” — Stanley Tucci’s first film as a writer/director since 2007 (“Blind Date”) — Hammer plays James Lord, a writer who agrees to sit for a 1964 session…
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‘Final Portrait’ Trailer: Geoffrey Rush Paints Armie Hammer
Armie Hammer has been making the most of his Euro trip movie roles. Of course, he spent nearly all of last year basking in the warmth of the Italy set, Oscar contending “Call Me By Your Name.” Now the actor plays a handsome American in Paris in the upcoming “Final Portrait.”Written and directed by Stanley…
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What Is the John C. Reilly Award, and How Did Michael Stuhlbarg Just Become the First Person to Win It in 15 Years?
John C. Reilly did something exceedingly rare back in 2002: appeared in three different Best Picture nominees. His roles in “Gangs of New York,” “Chicago,” and “The Hours” — all of which premiered within a week of each other — are now the basis for what FiveThirtyEight has appropriately dubbed the John C. Reilly Award,…