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“Queer” premiered in competition at the 2024 Venice Film Festival on September 3. The highly anticipated film is the second this year from director Luca Guadagnino, who earlier this year released the provocative tennis drama “Challengers.” This one stars Daniel Craig as William Lee, a pseudonym of author William S. Burroughs, who lives in Mexico City and is drawn to a younger man named Allerton (Drew Starkey). It has been picked up by A24 for US distribution.
So far aggregator MetaCritic has logged 13 reviews of the film, which overall gets a “generally favorable” rating of 75. But the individual reviews are somewhat divided: eight are positive and five are mixed, though none are outright negative. On Rotten Tomatoes, where films are classified simply as positive or negative, the film is 80% fresh based on 10 reviews, just two of which give the film a thumbs down.
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So far aggregator MetaCritic has logged 13 reviews of the film, which overall gets a “generally favorable” rating of 75. But the individual reviews are somewhat divided: eight are positive and five are mixed, though none are outright negative. On Rotten Tomatoes, where films are classified simply as positive or negative, the film is 80% fresh based on 10 reviews, just two of which give the film a thumbs down.
SEENicole Kidman is ‘bold,’ ‘brave’ and ‘immaculate’ in ‘Babygirl,...
- 9/3/2024
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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Earlier in the year, when it was discovered that 2024 would be the year of not one but two brand new films made by the talented Luca Guadagnino, I made a prediction that Queer would be the real knock out next to the more forgettable Challengers. Now that I've seen both of the films it's time to admit - my prediction was wrong. It turns out its the other way around and Challengers is the winner. Luca Guadagnino's Queer is premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in the Main Competition, the same festival where most of the Italian filmmaker's previous films Suspiria, Bones and All, I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, as well as his doc Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams premiered. He's back in Venice again with what has been described as his most personal work yet, an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' very queer novel of the same name -...
- 9/3/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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Acclaimed Italian director Luca Guadagnino earned an enthusiastic response for his latest film “Queer” at its world premiere at the prestigious Venice Film Festival. The audience gave the film a long standing ovation lasting 11 minutes and 44 seconds in the Salo Grande theater.
“Queer” tells the story of William Lee, an American man played by Daniel Craig, living in 1950s Mexico City. Lee seeks a meaningful relationship as he adjusts to his new home. He forms a connection with Eugene Allerton, a student portrayed by newcomer Drew Starkey.
Director Luca Guadagnino leads Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville and the rest of the cast of his film #Queer down the steps of the Sala Grande, where they all bow to the audience in unison #VeniceFilmFestvial #Venezia81 pic.twitter.com/rcU2BNTqkF
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After the ending credits rolled, festival attendees broke into applause and cheers for Guadagnino’s name. The...
“Queer” tells the story of William Lee, an American man played by Daniel Craig, living in 1950s Mexico City. Lee seeks a meaningful relationship as he adjusts to his new home. He forms a connection with Eugene Allerton, a student portrayed by newcomer Drew Starkey.
Director Luca Guadagnino leads Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville and the rest of the cast of his film #Queer down the steps of the Sala Grande, where they all bow to the audience in unison #VeniceFilmFestvial #Venezia81 pic.twitter.com/rcU2BNTqkF
— Deadline (@Deadline) September 3, 2024
After the ending credits rolled, festival attendees broke into applause and cheers for Guadagnino’s name. The...
- 9/3/2024
- by Naser Nahandian
- Gazettely
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Daniel Craig was in the Sala Grande this evening for the Venice Film Festival world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer which earned an 11-minute, 44-second ovation from the audience.
The crowd chanted Guadagnino’s name at the beginning of the ovation as he held up stars Craig, Drew Starkey and Lesley Manville’s hands separately for individual applause. The cast came down together from the gallery and bowed in unison, then one-by-one came down from the gallery again. Pedro Almodóvar was in the audience, and during the ovation congratulated Guadagnino and hugged him and Craig. You can see the video below.
Director Luca Guadagnino leads Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville and the rest of the cast of his film #Queer down the steps of the Sala Grande, where they all bow to the audience in unison #VeniceFilmFestvial #Venezia81 pic.twitter.com/rcU2BNTqkF
— Deadline (@Deadline) September 3, 2024
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The crowd chanted Guadagnino’s name at the beginning of the ovation as he held up stars Craig, Drew Starkey and Lesley Manville’s hands separately for individual applause. The cast came down together from the gallery and bowed in unison, then one-by-one came down from the gallery again. Pedro Almodóvar was in the audience, and during the ovation congratulated Guadagnino and hugged him and Craig. You can see the video below.
Director Luca Guadagnino leads Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville and the rest of the cast of his film #Queer down the steps of the Sala Grande, where they all bow to the audience in unison #VeniceFilmFestvial #Venezia81 pic.twitter.com/rcU2BNTqkF
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- 9/3/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione and Nada Aboul Kheir
- Deadline Film + TV
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Daniel Craig delivers a career-best performance in Luca Guadagnino’s romantic drama “Queer,” playing a gay American expat in 1950s Mexico City. The drama, with its explicit love scenes, swept up a packed theater at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night, earning a 9-minute standing ovation.
When the applause began, Craig looked flushed and misty-eyed as he hugged Guadagnino. The crowd chanted “Luca! Luca! Luca!” while the ovation continued, with each actor coming down the Sala Grande steps from where they sat in the balcony to bow individually. During his turn, Craig blew kisses to the crowd as his wife, Rachel Weisz, smiled proudly.
When Craig and Starkey at last embraced, Guadagnino — and the rest of the audience — erupted in cheers as the two gripped each other in celebration. Pedro Almodóvar, whose new film “The Room Next Door” received the longest standing ovation of the fest so far with 17 minutes,...
When the applause began, Craig looked flushed and misty-eyed as he hugged Guadagnino. The crowd chanted “Luca! Luca! Luca!” while the ovation continued, with each actor coming down the Sala Grande steps from where they sat in the balcony to bow individually. During his turn, Craig blew kisses to the crowd as his wife, Rachel Weisz, smiled proudly.
When Craig and Starkey at last embraced, Guadagnino — and the rest of the audience — erupted in cheers as the two gripped each other in celebration. Pedro Almodóvar, whose new film “The Room Next Door” received the longest standing ovation of the fest so far with 17 minutes,...
- 9/3/2024
- by Ellise Shafer, Ramin Setoodeh, Elsa Keslassy and Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
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The Pope is dead, and the Catholic College of Cardinals — all deeply pious men with nothing but God in their hearts, of course — start maneuvering to take his place before the Holy Father’s body has even been wheeled out of sight. For all of their eminence, the cardinals are no more immune to cattiness and ambition than anyone else.
In real life, such human foibles are likely veiled behind the solemnity of religious tradition and the sacred import of what’s at stake. In “Conclave,” however, which “All Quiet on the Western Front” director Edward Berger has adapted from the Robert Harris novel of the same name, the cardinals are played by a heavenly gaggle of character actors who’ve spent their careers praying for the chance to stand under the Sistine Chapel and shout “how dare you!” at the top of their lungs.
Needless to say, this isn...
In real life, such human foibles are likely veiled behind the solemnity of religious tradition and the sacred import of what’s at stake. In “Conclave,” however, which “All Quiet on the Western Front” director Edward Berger has adapted from the Robert Harris novel of the same name, the cardinals are played by a heavenly gaggle of character actors who’ve spent their careers praying for the chance to stand under the Sistine Chapel and shout “how dare you!” at the top of their lungs.
Needless to say, this isn...
- 8/31/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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Ever since 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino has been one of the premiere directors to watch. With a bold remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, a cannibal love story in Bones and All and sex-serving tennis drama Challengers, the guy hasn’t left the eye of film lovers. Now, the next feature from Guadagnino, Queer, has been acquired by A24 ahead of its Venice Film Festival premiere.
This news comes just as the Venice Film Festival launches, with Queer joining Challengers, Bones and All, Suspiria, A Bigger Splash, I Am Love, and Guadagnino’s debut, 1999’s The Protagonist, as films the Italian director has brought to the famed fest. However, unlike any of those other works, Queer marks the first time that Guadagnino will work with A24.
As for the plot of Queer: “Set in 1950s Mexico City, Queer follows William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties,...
This news comes just as the Venice Film Festival launches, with Queer joining Challengers, Bones and All, Suspiria, A Bigger Splash, I Am Love, and Guadagnino’s debut, 1999’s The Protagonist, as films the Italian director has brought to the famed fest. However, unlike any of those other works, Queer marks the first time that Guadagnino will work with A24.
As for the plot of Queer: “Set in 1950s Mexico City, Queer follows William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
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It is with great sadness that we report legendary French actor Alain Delon has died at the age of 88. Widely hailed as the most beautiful movie star of all time thanks to his ocean blue eyes and statuesque, sculpted cheekbones, Delon — star of Le Samourai, Plein Soleil, Rocco And His Brothers and much, much more — brought an insouciant cool to cinema on- and off-screen, and an ineffable capacity to convey the depths of a brooding soul in the level of those self-same eyes. Delon passed away at his home in Douchy, surrounded by his three children and family, on 18 August.
Born on 8 November 1935 to cinema projectionist (and later La Régina cinema director) father François Fabien Delon and pharmacist and cinema usher mother Édith Marie Suzanne Arnold, you could say that the movies ran in Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon's blood. After a turbulent series of school expulsions, spells in prison,...
Born on 8 November 1935 to cinema projectionist (and later La Régina cinema director) father François Fabien Delon and pharmacist and cinema usher mother Édith Marie Suzanne Arnold, you could say that the movies ran in Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon's blood. After a turbulent series of school expulsions, spells in prison,...
- 8/21/2024
- by Jordan King
- Empire - Movies
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The New York Film Festival said Luca Guadagnino’s Queer will be the Spotlight Gala of the 62nd New York Film Festival, making its U.S. premiere.
The adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s novel, scripted by Justin Kuritzkes, stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, and David Lowery. Written in the early 1950s but not published until 1985, Queer has come to be considered a canonical work in the career of the Beat Generation author and a cornerstone of transgressive gay literature.
“Luca Guadagnino is one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile filmmakers, and one of its biggest risk-takers,” said NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim. “Queer is his most fearless, inventive, and surprising film, one that brings its subcultural world to brilliant life and creates the role of a lifetime for a tremendous Daniel Craig.”
Craig plays Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, a...
The adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s novel, scripted by Justin Kuritzkes, stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, and David Lowery. Written in the early 1950s but not published until 1985, Queer has come to be considered a canonical work in the career of the Beat Generation author and a cornerstone of transgressive gay literature.
“Luca Guadagnino is one of contemporary cinema’s most versatile filmmakers, and one of its biggest risk-takers,” said NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim. “Queer is his most fearless, inventive, and surprising film, one that brings its subcultural world to brilliant life and creates the role of a lifetime for a tremendous Daniel Craig.”
Craig plays Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, a...
- 8/8/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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The HBO series Industry returns for a third season on Aug. 11, with Game of Thrones‘ Kit Harington joining the cast. The series follows a cast of characters caught up in the cutthroat world of high finance in London as they determine whether they will thrive or crumble under the pressure.
Rick and Morty: The Anime will be available on Max this month for fans looking for something to tide them over until Rick and Morty season 8.
Another notable new release this month is the documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes. Formulated with newly recovered interviews and unprecedented access to the actor’s personal archive, this documentary claims to be Elizabeth Taylor’s story from her perspective.
Here’s everything coming to HBO and Max in August.
HBO and Max New Releases – August 2024
August 1
3 Days to Kill (2014)
A Bigger Splash (2016)
Amelie (2001)
Arthur (2011)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Blackthorn (2011)
Brick Mansions (2014)
Down Terrace (2010)
Forever My Girl...
Rick and Morty: The Anime will be available on Max this month for fans looking for something to tide them over until Rick and Morty season 8.
Another notable new release this month is the documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes. Formulated with newly recovered interviews and unprecedented access to the actor’s personal archive, this documentary claims to be Elizabeth Taylor’s story from her perspective.
Here’s everything coming to HBO and Max in August.
HBO and Max New Releases – August 2024
August 1
3 Days to Kill (2014)
A Bigger Splash (2016)
Amelie (2001)
Arthur (2011)
Beetlejuice (1988)
Blackthorn (2011)
Brick Mansions (2014)
Down Terrace (2010)
Forever My Girl...
- 8/1/2024
- by Brynnaarens
- Den of Geek
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Filmmaker Luca Gudadgnino has worked on multiple acclaimed films. He is the director behind Call Me By Your Name, which was nominated for the Oscars for Best Picture, and this year’s tennis romance Challengers. The actor will reportedly next be helming the period romance Queer.
Gudagnino has been known to cast incredibly talented actors in his films, who have delivered some of their career-best performances. Be it Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar-nominated performance in Call Me By Your Name or Zendaya’s in Challengers, Guadagnino casts them perfectly. The filmmaker revealed the secret behind the perfect casting.
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Luca Guadagnino is known for his brand of unlikely romances. The director is known for his extremely seductive visual imagery...
Gudagnino has been known to cast incredibly talented actors in his films, who have delivered some of their career-best performances. Be it Timothée Chalamet’s Oscar-nominated performance in Call Me By Your Name or Zendaya’s in Challengers, Guadagnino casts them perfectly. The filmmaker revealed the secret behind the perfect casting.
Luca Guadagnino Reveals Why He Chose Actors Like Timothée Chalamet And Zendaya A still from Call Me By Your Name | Credits: Frenesy Film Company/La Cinéfacture/Rt Features/M.Y.R.A. Entertainment/Water’s End Productions
Luca Guadagnino is known for his brand of unlikely romances. The director is known for his extremely seductive visual imagery...
- 6/23/2024
- by Nishanth A
- FandomWire
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Fresh off her turn in Marvel‘s maligned “Madame Web,” Dakota Johnson is returning to indies with Christy Hall’s feature directorial debut “Daddio.” Sean Penn co-stars as a lone-wolf taxi driver and old-guard New Yorker who picks up Johnson’s character, Girlie, from JFK. On the journey back to Brooklyn, they share a heart-to-heart about life, love, sex, relationships, and more.
For Johnson, working with Hall was no different from working with more established filmmakers. “Well, it’s different every time. It depends on the person,” Johnson told IndieWire. “Sometimes you would never guess that it was somebody’s first feature, and sometimes it can be really challenging.” Production took place in just 16 days and primarily on a soundstage. Not only does Johnson star, but she also serves as a producer, alongside her TeaTime Pictures co-founder Ro Donnelly.
“This is, it’s just such a gem of a project.
For Johnson, working with Hall was no different from working with more established filmmakers. “Well, it’s different every time. It depends on the person,” Johnson told IndieWire. “Sometimes you would never guess that it was somebody’s first feature, and sometimes it can be really challenging.” Production took place in just 16 days and primarily on a soundstage. Not only does Johnson star, but she also serves as a producer, alongside her TeaTime Pictures co-founder Ro Donnelly.
“This is, it’s just such a gem of a project.
- 6/18/2024
- by Vincent Perella
- Indiewire
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Matthias Schoenaerts had worked with Kate Winslet before, but never like this. Never as a lackey engaging in a psychosexual power play with a capricious dictator convinced bacteria is flooding her palace. It almost goes without saying that The Regime is far less restrained than Schoenaerts and Winslet’s previous screen romance, the largely forgotten 2014 period film A Little Chaos.
“We both were like, ‘Ok, so what is this mad piece of work that we’re reading?’ ” Schoenaerts says of his first conversation with Winslet about the HBO limited series. “ ‘Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it both?’ We were trying to figure out what the tone was going to be.”
Will Tracy, who created and co-wrote the show, has a résumé heavy on humorous genre hybrids, including Succession, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and The Menu. According to Schoenaerts, Tracy was careful never to define...
“We both were like, ‘Ok, so what is this mad piece of work that we’re reading?’ ” Schoenaerts says of his first conversation with Winslet about the HBO limited series. “ ‘Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it both?’ We were trying to figure out what the tone was going to be.”
Will Tracy, who created and co-wrote the show, has a résumé heavy on humorous genre hybrids, including Succession, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and The Menu. According to Schoenaerts, Tracy was careful never to define...
- 6/17/2024
- by Matthew Jacobs
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino knows how to make a goddamn movie. That was clear to fans of his earlier works, like the sumptuous "I Am Love," more than a decade ago. It was clear to most other people about five years ago when the bold one-two punch of "Call Me By Your Name" and "Suspiria" made moviegoers sit up and pay attention. And it's more clear than ever now, with the release of the director's latest (and reportedly biggest-budgeted) effort, the endlessly thrilling Zendaya-led sports drama "Challengers." Film after film, Guadagnino manages to tap into some hidden corners of our hearts by telling stories that are evocative and colorful, musical and sensual, messy and true.
Though Guadagnino has gained more attention in recent years, the filmmaker has actually been working since the '90s and has by now made eight narrative (or meta-narrative) features, a TV show, and several documentaries and shorts.
Though Guadagnino has gained more attention in recent years, the filmmaker has actually been working since the '90s and has by now made eight narrative (or meta-narrative) features, a TV show, and several documentaries and shorts.
- 5/11/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
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Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (Apr 26-28) Total gross to date Week 1. Challengers (Warner Bros) £1.5m £1.5m 1 2. Back To Black (Studiocanal) £1.4m £9m 3 3. Kung Fu Panda 4 (Universal) £948,033 £19.7m 5 4. Civil War (Entertainment Film Distributors) £755,426 £5.2m 3 5. Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros) £597,522 £13.7m 5
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Luca Guadagnino’s tennis drama Challengers scored a number one ranking on its opening weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, with a £1.5m first session.
Warner Bros title Challengers took a £2,197 site average from over 700 cinemas, and has £1.6m including previews.
The figure is a new record opening in the territory for Guadagnino,...
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Luca Guadagnino’s tennis drama Challengers scored a number one ranking on its opening weekend at the UK-Ireland box office, with a £1.5m first session.
Warner Bros title Challengers took a £2,197 site average from over 700 cinemas, and has £1.6m including previews.
The figure is a new record opening in the territory for Guadagnino,...
- 4/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
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"I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema." –Luca Guadagnino. His latest film Challengers (final trailer here) is finally landing in theaters for everyone to enjoy this week. In celebration of this release, the UK movie magazine Little White Lies and video editor Luís Azevedo have created a supercut highlighting "The Colors Of Luca Guadagnino." It's a quick video at just 2-1/2 minutes featuring shots from almost all of his films, showing how he works his way through hot and cold colors depending on the mood. No matter what, his film always have vivid colors. Guadagnino's exceptional filmography includes: The Protagonists (1999), Melissa P. (2005), I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), Call Me By Your Name (2017), Suspiria...
- 4/22/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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Amazon MGM Studios has released the final trailer for Challengers, starring Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court.
Married to a champion on a losing streak, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick—his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.
As their pasts and present collide and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself what it will cost to win. In addition to the trailer, you can also watch a featurette on the film’s music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers is rated R for language throughout, some sexual content, and graphic nudity. The drama will open in theaters on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Guadagnino directed the movie from a script by Justin Kuritzkes.
Married to a champion on a losing streak, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick—his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.
As their pasts and present collide and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself what it will cost to win. In addition to the trailer, you can also watch a featurette on the film’s music by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers is rated R for language throughout, some sexual content, and graphic nudity. The drama will open in theaters on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Guadagnino directed the movie from a script by Justin Kuritzkes.
- 4/22/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
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Challengers is releasing to theaters and we’re celebrating with a giveaway!
Zendaya sizzles in the steamy new film from acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino. Guadagnino — who brought us Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, Suspiria (2018) and A Bigger Splash — combines the world of competitive tennis with the steamy messiness of a love triangle. It’s a fast paced and flashy film that marks Zendaya’s second major theatrical release of the year, following Dune: Part Two. Joining the Spider-Man: No Way Home star are Josh O’Connor (The Crown) and Mike Faist (West Side Story) as former friends now competing for the affection of the alluring Tashi.
I had the pleasure of catching an advanced screening at the beginning of the month and I had an absolute blast with this one-of-a-king film. You can check out my full review below. Originally scheduled to be released in September of 2023 before...
Zendaya sizzles in the steamy new film from acclaimed director Luca Guadagnino. Guadagnino — who brought us Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, Suspiria (2018) and A Bigger Splash — combines the world of competitive tennis with the steamy messiness of a love triangle. It’s a fast paced and flashy film that marks Zendaya’s second major theatrical release of the year, following Dune: Part Two. Joining the Spider-Man: No Way Home star are Josh O’Connor (The Crown) and Mike Faist (West Side Story) as former friends now competing for the affection of the alluring Tashi.
I had the pleasure of catching an advanced screening at the beginning of the month and I had an absolute blast with this one-of-a-king film. You can check out my full review below. Originally scheduled to be released in September of 2023 before...
- 4/17/2024
- by Joshua Ryan
- FandomWire
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“Are we talking about tennis?” asks Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor) in a mid-aughts flashback as chugging, four-on-the-floor beats kick in to accompany an argument between him and his sure-to-turn-pro girlfriend, Tashi Duncan (Zendaya). It’s one of several instances in director Luca Guadagnino’s sexy, swaggering sports drama Challengers where the characters make subtext into text. “We’re always talking about tennis,” she responds, but in Justin Kuritzkes’s screenplay, tennis isn’t just tennis—it’s sex, it’s power, it’s self-determination, or, as Tashi herself puts it at one point, “it’s a relationship.” What do we talk about when we talk about tennis? In Challengers at least, it’s absolutely everything else.
Challengers frames its drama against a 2019 Atp event where the sport’s biggest star, 33-year-old Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), is competing to regain some confidence after a professional rough patch on his way to a Grand Slam.
Challengers frames its drama against a 2019 Atp event where the sport’s biggest star, 33-year-old Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), is competing to regain some confidence after a professional rough patch on his way to a Grand Slam.
- 4/12/2024
- by Rocco T. Thompson
- Slant Magazine
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"I loved making this film. It's a rollercoaster... and you feel that." MGM Studios has revealed a featurette for Challengers, the latest film from filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. It's finally landing in theaters this month! Following a long delay from last year. After a losing streak, the wife and coach of a Grand Slam champion signs him up for a Challenger event where he will face off against her former lover – and his former competitor. The full cast includes Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist as the trio caught up in this lovers' quarrel, plus A.J. Lister and Jake Jensen. The two official trailers for this have been mostly good, this featurette adds a bit more context to Tashi, Zendaya's character, though there isn't much footage as it's less than 60 seconds long. We'll add more featurettes below for Challengers as they're unveiled. Looking forward to finally seeing this in a few weeks.
- 4/1/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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The tennis-meets-love triangle film “Challengers” will be released in April, but ever since the first trailer hit viewers have been curious about how far the film’s threesome at its center will go in the sexually charged movie. The film stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist as a trio of tennis pros who have an overlapping romantic past. One scene in particular features all three sharing an intimate experience, something that O’Connor described as “fairly organic” in the filming process.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, “The Durrells in Corfu” star explained that the three stars worked together to bring “Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino’s vision to life.
“Luca had a very clear idea of what happens on the bed. The idea of me and Mike, with Zendaya in the middle—this idea that it’s kissing, kissing, and then it turns into this...
In an interview with Vanity Fair, “The Durrells in Corfu” star explained that the three stars worked together to bring “Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino’s vision to life.
“Luca had a very clear idea of what happens on the bed. The idea of me and Mike, with Zendaya in the middle—this idea that it’s kissing, kissing, and then it turns into this...
- 3/30/2024
- by Stephanie Kaloi
- The Wrap
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Challengers, the Luca Guadagnino-directed, Zendaya-starring drama about a trio of tennis players enmeshed in a love triangle, is back with a new trailer and release date after the film was postponed last year due to the Hollywood strikes.
The latest preview doesn’t stray that far from the one that dropped back in June 2023, serving more of a reminder that, yes, Challengers is coming out. The movie follows former tennis star Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) — whose career is cut short by a leg injury — alongside her pro husband Art...
The latest preview doesn’t stray that far from the one that dropped back in June 2023, serving more of a reminder that, yes, Challengers is coming out. The movie follows former tennis star Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) — whose career is cut short by a leg injury — alongside her pro husband Art...
- 2/21/2024
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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"What makes you think I want someone to be in love with me?" Oh so feisty!! MGM Studios has unveiled the second trailer for the love triangle tennis film titled Challengers, the latest feature from filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. Now set for release in April. "The art of seduction and other games." After a losing streak, the wife and coach of a Grand Slam champion signs him up for Challenger event where he will face off against her former lover – and his former competitor. The main cast includes Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist as the trio at the center of this lovers' quarrel, along with A.J. Lister and Jake Jensen. This was originally set to open in September last year after a world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. But the release & premiere were cancelled because of the actors' strike. It was expected that the film would next show up at Sundance or Berlinale instead,...
- 2/21/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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Trailers are designed to stir up excitement, the amuse-bouche that whets your appetite for the three-course meal. Occasionally, the oldest marketing trick in the book backfires. When Sony dropped a sneak peek at Madame Web, the newest addition to the company’s roster of Spider-Man–related films and another of their corporate crossovers with the good folks at Marvel Studios, the reaction was … not exactly what they hoped for. The same fans they were hoping to get riled up about a batch of fresh Spidey-adjacent characters began to mock the clip,...
- 2/13/2024
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
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From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius
Visual art, oddly, doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from a coffee table book, the camera can impose a distance from the art at hand – a secondary perspective that isn’t really needed. Wim Wenders bucks that trend, however, in his marvellous Anselm Kiefer documentary Anselm (Curzon Home Cinema), which feels fully alive to the angular, nature-based textures of the German painter and sculptor’s work. It’s especially exciting as a study of process – of the grand-scale action that goes into the art’s own dynamic movement.
A large part of its reward came, on the big screen, from Wenders’ continuingly imaginative embrace of 3D technology.
Visual art, oddly, doesn’t always translate that naturally to cinema as a subject. Just as you don’t get the full impact of a painting from a coffee table book, the camera can impose a distance from the art at hand – a secondary perspective that isn’t really needed. Wim Wenders bucks that trend, however, in his marvellous Anselm Kiefer documentary Anselm (Curzon Home Cinema), which feels fully alive to the angular, nature-based textures of the German painter and sculptor’s work. It’s especially exciting as a study of process – of the grand-scale action that goes into the art’s own dynamic movement.
A large part of its reward came, on the big screen, from Wenders’ continuingly imaginative embrace of 3D technology.
- 2/10/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- The Guardian - Film News
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Dakota Johnson sounded off on the industry in a new interview with L’Officiel ahead of the release of her superhero tentpole “Madame Web.” The actor reflected on bringing her indie drama “Daddio” to a film festival last year, where she says it took a whole lot of effort to get it sold despite it starring her and Oscar winner Sean Penn in the lead roles.
“We made a movie called ‘Daddio‘ that was sold at Telluride to Sony Classics, which was amazing, but it took a lot of fighting to get that made,” Johnson said. “People are just so afraid, and I’m like, ‘Why? What’s going to happen if you do something brave?’ It just feels like nobody knows what to do and everyone’s afraid. That’s what it feels like. Everyone who makes decisions is afraid. They want to do the safe thing and the safe thing is really boring.
“We made a movie called ‘Daddio‘ that was sold at Telluride to Sony Classics, which was amazing, but it took a lot of fighting to get that made,” Johnson said. “People are just so afraid, and I’m like, ‘Why? What’s going to happen if you do something brave?’ It just feels like nobody knows what to do and everyone’s afraid. That’s what it feels like. Everyone who makes decisions is afraid. They want to do the safe thing and the safe thing is really boring.
- 2/7/2024
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
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Two-time Emmy winner Zendaya wished everyone “the most beautiful new year” while sharing the poster for her upcoming movie Challengers on Instagram. The R-rated drama finds Zendaya playing a tennis coach caught up in a love triangle with Mike Faist (West Side Story) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown).
Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino, director of 2015’s A Bigger Splash, 2017’s Call Me by Your Name, 2018’s Suspiria, and 2022’s Bones and All, directed Challengers from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes. The film was originally set to open in theaters on September 15, 2023 but was delayed due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Amazon MGM Studios is now targeting an April 26, 2024 theatrical release.
“Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to...
Two-time Emmy winner Zendaya wished everyone “the most beautiful new year” while sharing the poster for her upcoming movie Challengers on Instagram. The R-rated drama finds Zendaya playing a tennis coach caught up in a love triangle with Mike Faist (West Side Story) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown).
Oscar nominee Luca Guadagnino, director of 2015’s A Bigger Splash, 2017’s Call Me by Your Name, 2018’s Suspiria, and 2022’s Bones and All, directed Challengers from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes. The film was originally set to open in theaters on September 15, 2023 but was delayed due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Amazon MGM Studios is now targeting an April 26, 2024 theatrical release.
“Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to...
- 1/2/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
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Out with the old, in with the new! As Netflix begins cleaning house for both a new month and a new, several of its biggest titles will sadly have to say goodbye. January 2024 will be your last month to watch several modern classics, including Jordan Peele’s culture-changing horror debut “Get Out,” the Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone-starred “La La Land,” and “Poor Things” director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Greek tragedy retelling “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.”
Now’s your last chance to watch everything before they’re gone— get started with The Streamable’s Top 5 picks for everything leaving Netflix in January and see everything that will be removed from the platform throughout the month below!
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Now’s your last chance to watch everything before they’re gone— get started with The Streamable’s Top 5 picks for everything leaving Netflix in January and see everything that will be removed from the platform throughout the month below!
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- 12/18/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
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The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled the 10 cinema figures who will participate in its In Conversation With program at its 20th edition running from November 24 to December 2.
They comprise Australian actor Simon Baker, French director Bertrand Bonello, U.S. actor Willem Dafoe, Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; Japanese director Naomi Kawase; Danish-u.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen; U.K. actor Tilda Swinton; and Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, who will receive the festival’s honorary Étoile d’or prize this year, will also participate in the program.
Baker’s was seen most recently in Toronto title Limbo and Tribeca 2022 selection Blaze, with early features including L.A. Confidential (1997), David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), followed by hit series The Mentalist (2008–2015).
Bensaïdi’s first feature A Thousand Months world premiered...
They comprise Australian actor Simon Baker, French director Bertrand Bonello, U.S. actor Willem Dafoe, Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; Japanese director Naomi Kawase; Danish-u.S. actor and director Viggo Mortensen; U.K. actor Tilda Swinton; and Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, who will receive the festival’s honorary Étoile d’or prize this year, will also participate in the program.
Baker’s was seen most recently in Toronto title Limbo and Tribeca 2022 selection Blaze, with early features including L.A. Confidential (1997), David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada (2006), and J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), followed by hit series The Mentalist (2008–2015).
Bensaïdi’s first feature A Thousand Months world premiered...
- 11/7/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
With her upcoming Marvel/Sony superhero feature "Madame Web" releasing February 16, 2024, actress Dakota Johnson, the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, is no stranger to posing for fashion photographers and international magazine covers:
"...Johnson's breakthrough role was playing 'Anastasia Steele' in the erotic romantic drama film series "Fifty Shades" (2015–2018)...
"...and received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2016.
"Johnson then appeared in films "Black Mass" (2015)...
"...Luca Guadagnino's drama "A Bigger Splash" (2015)...
"...the romantic comedy "How to Be Single" (2016)...
"...the supernatural horror film "Suspiria" (2018)...
"...the thriller "Bad Times at the El Royale" (2018)...
"...the coming-of-age film "The Peanut Butter Falcon" (2019)...
"...Maggie Gyllenhaal's psychological drama "The Lost Daughter" (2021)...
"...and Cooper Raiff's "Cha Cha Real Smooth" (2022).
"February 2022, Johnson was cast as 'Madame Web' in the upcoming superhero film of the same name, set in Sony's 'Spider-Man Universe'.
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"...Johnson's breakthrough role was playing 'Anastasia Steele' in the erotic romantic drama film series "Fifty Shades" (2015–2018)...
"...and received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2016.
"Johnson then appeared in films "Black Mass" (2015)...
"...Luca Guadagnino's drama "A Bigger Splash" (2015)...
"...the romantic comedy "How to Be Single" (2016)...
"...the supernatural horror film "Suspiria" (2018)...
"...the thriller "Bad Times at the El Royale" (2018)...
"...the coming-of-age film "The Peanut Butter Falcon" (2019)...
"...Maggie Gyllenhaal's psychological drama "The Lost Daughter" (2021)...
"...and Cooper Raiff's "Cha Cha Real Smooth" (2022).
"February 2022, Johnson was cast as 'Madame Web' in the upcoming superhero film of the same name, set in Sony's 'Spider-Man Universe'.
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- 10/29/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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The work of Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino will be celebrated at a Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival event.
The celebration will be hosted by Indian filmmakers Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti’s Tiger Baby.
Prior to the event, Guadagnino will deliver a masterclass at the festival. The filmmaker was accorded the festival’s Excellence in Cinema (International) award by chair Priyanka Chopra Jonas at the opening ceremony on Oct. 27. The festival is screening Guadagnino’s Oscar and BAFTA nominated “I Am Love” (2009).
Guadagnino’s films include “A Bigger Splash” (2015), the Oscar-winning film “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), “Suspiria” (2018) and feature documentary “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (2020). “Bones and All” (2022) won Guadagnino the Silver Lion for best director at Venice. He made his TV debut with the HBO drama series “We Are Who We Are” (2020). His film “Challengers,” starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, is due in April 2024, and he is...
The celebration will be hosted by Indian filmmakers Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti’s Tiger Baby.
Prior to the event, Guadagnino will deliver a masterclass at the festival. The filmmaker was accorded the festival’s Excellence in Cinema (International) award by chair Priyanka Chopra Jonas at the opening ceremony on Oct. 27. The festival is screening Guadagnino’s Oscar and BAFTA nominated “I Am Love” (2009).
Guadagnino’s films include “A Bigger Splash” (2015), the Oscar-winning film “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), “Suspiria” (2018) and feature documentary “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (2020). “Bones and All” (2022) won Guadagnino the Silver Lion for best director at Venice. He made his TV debut with the HBO drama series “We Are Who We Are” (2020). His film “Challengers,” starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, is due in April 2024, and he is...
- 10/28/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam, known for his works like ‘Roja’, ‘Bombay’, and Italian director Luca Guadagnino, who is known for ‘A Bigger Splash’, ‘Call Me By Your Name’, etc will be honoured with the ‘Excellence in Cinema’ award, here, at the Mami Mumbai Film Festival. Both the directors will attend the festival to receive this prestigious accolade, and will conduct masterclasses at the festival. It will be held at the Opening Night ceremony on October 27.
The award honours individuals who have made outstanding, long-lasting contributions to the world of film and cinema. Previous recipients include Darren Aronofsky, Sharmila Tagore, Fernando Meirelles, and Chen Kaige.
The festival will also screen Mani Ratnam’s most recent historical dramas — ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part one and two’, and Guadagnino’s Golden Globe-nominated film ‘I Am Love’.
With a career spanning four decades, Mani Ratnam is one of the most celebrated directors from South Asia. Over the decades,...
The award honours individuals who have made outstanding, long-lasting contributions to the world of film and cinema. Previous recipients include Darren Aronofsky, Sharmila Tagore, Fernando Meirelles, and Chen Kaige.
The festival will also screen Mani Ratnam’s most recent historical dramas — ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part one and two’, and Guadagnino’s Golden Globe-nominated film ‘I Am Love’.
With a career spanning four decades, Mani Ratnam is one of the most celebrated directors from South Asia. Over the decades,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam, known for his works like ‘Roja’, ‘Bombay’, and Italian director Luca Guadagnino, who is known for ‘A Bigger Splash’, ‘Call Me By Your Name’, etc will be honoured with the ‘Excellence in Cinema’ award, here, at the Mami Mumbai Film Festival. Both the directors will attend the festival to receive this prestigious accolade, and will conduct masterclasses at the festival. It will be held at the Opening Night ceremony on October 27.
The award honours individuals who have made outstanding, long-lasting contributions to the world of film and cinema. Previous recipients include Darren Aronofsky, Sharmila Tagore, Fernando Meirelles, and Chen Kaige.
The festival will also screen Mani Ratnam’s most recent historical dramas — ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part one and two’, and Guadagnino’s Golden Globe-nominated film ‘I Am Love’.
With a career spanning four decades, Mani Ratnam is one of the most celebrated directors from South Asia. Over the decades,...
The award honours individuals who have made outstanding, long-lasting contributions to the world of film and cinema. Previous recipients include Darren Aronofsky, Sharmila Tagore, Fernando Meirelles, and Chen Kaige.
The festival will also screen Mani Ratnam’s most recent historical dramas — ‘Ponniyin Selvan: Part one and two’, and Guadagnino’s Golden Globe-nominated film ‘I Am Love’.
With a career spanning four decades, Mani Ratnam is one of the most celebrated directors from South Asia. Over the decades,...
- 10/25/2023
- by Agency News Desk
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Italy’s Luca Guadagnino and India’s Mani Ratnam will receive the Jio Mami Mumbai Film Festival’s 2023 Excellence in Cinema awards.
Ratnam will receive the Excellence in Cinema (South Asia) award and Guadagnino the Excellence in Cinema (International) award. The awards will be presented at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 27. Both filmmakers will be present and will deliver masterclasses during the festival.
The festival will screen Guadagnino’s Oscar and BAFTA nominated “I Am Love” (2009) and both parts of Ratnam’s magnum opus “Ponniyin Selvan”.
Guadagnino’s films include “A Bigger Splash” (2015), the Oscar-winning film “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), “Suspiria” (2018) and feature documentary “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (2020). “Bones and All” (2022) won Guadagnino the Silver Lion for best director at Venice. He made his TV debut with the HBO drama series “We Are Who We Are” (2020). His film “Challengers,” starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, is...
Ratnam will receive the Excellence in Cinema (South Asia) award and Guadagnino the Excellence in Cinema (International) award. The awards will be presented at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 27. Both filmmakers will be present and will deliver masterclasses during the festival.
The festival will screen Guadagnino’s Oscar and BAFTA nominated “I Am Love” (2009) and both parts of Ratnam’s magnum opus “Ponniyin Selvan”.
Guadagnino’s films include “A Bigger Splash” (2015), the Oscar-winning film “Call Me By Your Name” (2017), “Suspiria” (2018) and feature documentary “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams” (2020). “Bones and All” (2022) won Guadagnino the Silver Lion for best director at Venice. He made his TV debut with the HBO drama series “We Are Who We Are” (2020). His film “Challengers,” starring Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, is...
- 10/25/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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Having recently shifted away from their one-film-a-day approach, Mubi has now unveiled their October lineup, which is headlined by Ira Sachs’ stellar drama Passages following its theatrical run this summer. The slate also features handpicked selections by Sachs, with work by Maurice Pialat, Luchino Visconti, Jack Hazan, Shirley Clarke, and Tsai Ming-liang.
Also arriving in October is “Watch If You Dare: Horror Halloween,” a series featuring a trio of giallo classics, with The Fifth Cord, The Possessed, and Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, alongside Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone and more. The service will also spotlight the work of underseen Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura, including his aching melodrama Red Angel, his biting workplace satire Giants and Toys, his thrilling noir Black Test Car, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
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The Infiltrators, directed by Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra | National Hispanic Heritage Month
The Vanished Elephant,...
Also arriving in October is “Watch If You Dare: Horror Halloween,” a series featuring a trio of giallo classics, with The Fifth Cord, The Possessed, and Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, alongside Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone and more. The service will also spotlight the work of underseen Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura, including his aching melodrama Red Angel, his biting workplace satire Giants and Toys, his thrilling noir Black Test Car, and more.
Check out the lineup below and get 30 days free here.
October 1
The Infiltrators, directed by Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra | National Hispanic Heritage Month
The Vanished Elephant,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
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Matteo Garrone’s talent for weaving stories out of the fabric of real events––especially those involving desperate or violent people––gets another airing in Io Capitano, an engrossing, visceral portrait of one young man’s brutal journey from Senegal to the coast of Italy. The director won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2008 for Gomorrah, his defining, excoriating portrait of the Camorra crime syndicate, and he performed the trick again ten years later in Dogman, inspired by a gruesome gangland murder in Rome. He’s also had success in comedies (Reality) and fantasy (Tale of Tales), but his new film is an epic embracing the defining issue of Italian politics right now––the flow of refugees crossing the Mediterranean heading for Europe––making a potentially abstract, no-less-urgent topic tactile and approachable.
The migrant crisis is having a moment this year in European cinema, with Agnieszka Holland’s recent Green Border,...
The migrant crisis is having a moment this year in European cinema, with Agnieszka Holland’s recent Green Border,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
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Luca Guadagnino is putting a brave face on the sudden pulling last month of new movie Challengers from the prestigious opening slot of the Venice Film Festival, after the actors’ strike grounded its U.S. cast led by Zendaya.
The Venice regular – who won its Best Director award in 2022 for Bones And All, having also premiered A Bigger Splash and Suspiria in Competition; I Am Love in Orizzonti and first feature The Protagonists in the now defunct New Territories sidebar – considers the festival his “home” and will still be out in force on the Lido.
The Oscar-nominated Call Me By Your Name director and producer is attending with two productions made under his Frenesy Film Company banner: short animated documentary The Meatseller and Italian actor Pietro Castellitto’s feature directorial debut Enea in Competition.
“You know Venezia is my home and I will be there with the short and feature in competition…...
The Venice regular – who won its Best Director award in 2022 for Bones And All, having also premiered A Bigger Splash and Suspiria in Competition; I Am Love in Orizzonti and first feature The Protagonists in the now defunct New Territories sidebar – considers the festival his “home” and will still be out in force on the Lido.
The Oscar-nominated Call Me By Your Name director and producer is attending with two productions made under his Frenesy Film Company banner: short animated documentary The Meatseller and Italian actor Pietro Castellitto’s feature directorial debut Enea in Competition.
“You know Venezia is my home and I will be there with the short and feature in competition…...
- 8/30/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
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Jack Hazan and David Mingay's Rude Boy is now showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries—including the United Kingdom, Brazil, India, Turkey, and Ireland—in the series Rediscovered.London, 1978: Ray Gange, a purposeless punk, shuffles from the unemployment benefit office to his beer-money job at a porno bookstore, selling dirty magazines to shifty-looking customers. Meanwhile, young fascists storm the streets, hurling abuse and waving banners in their fight against “communism in the classroom” and “race-mix propaganda.” Margaret Thatcher is on the cusp of seizing power and the National Front is at the height of its popularity. Racist graffiti, large-scale unemployment, run-down social housing, and right-wing riots: in five minutes flat, Rude Boy (1980) tells you everything you need to know about Britain at the dark end of the 1970s.As much a gritty social-realist document of a country in transition as a charged concert film of the pioneering punk band the Clash,...
- 8/29/2023
- MUBI
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One of the most exciting parts of a new Oscars season is seeing which over-due artists may finally land their first wins or bids. Last year, Todd Field (“Tár”) and Martin McDonagh (“The Banshees of Inisherin”), two revered filmmakers who have had plenty of acclaimed pictures in the past, finally received the first Best Director nominations of their careers. This year, there are several more filmmakers who are on the lookout for their first bids. So, here’s a rundown of five renowned helmers who could be first-time Best Director nominees this year.
Ben Affleck — “Air” (Amazon Studios/Universal)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Viola Davis
Release Date: April 5, 2023
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
“Follows the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan.”
Affleck won Best Picture in his directorial debut...
Ben Affleck — “Air” (Amazon Studios/Universal)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Bateman, Viola Davis
Release Date: April 5, 2023
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
“Follows the history of sports marketing executive Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan.”
Affleck won Best Picture in his directorial debut...
- 7/13/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
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After delivering a blisteringly saucy trailer, Luca Guadagnino’s latest film “Challengers” will set the Venice Film Festival ablaze as their opening night film, screening out of competition, TheWrap has confirmed.
The film follows Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a successful tennis champ drawn to two men, played by Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor. But the pair continue to become entwined in each other’s lives to a dangerous degree.
This isn’t the first time Guadagnino has debuted a feature at the Venice Film Festival. His 2009 feature “I Am Love” screened at the fest, as well as 2015’s “A Bigger Splash,” 2018’s “Suspiria” and last year’s “Bones and All.” Zendaya has also had a feature screen in Venice, with 2021’s “Dune,” the second half of which will debut later this year.
The script comes from newcomer Justin Kuritzkes with Amy Pascal, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya and Rachel O’Connor acting as producers.
The film follows Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a successful tennis champ drawn to two men, played by Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor. But the pair continue to become entwined in each other’s lives to a dangerous degree.
This isn’t the first time Guadagnino has debuted a feature at the Venice Film Festival. His 2009 feature “I Am Love” screened at the fest, as well as 2015’s “A Bigger Splash,” 2018’s “Suspiria” and last year’s “Bones and All.” Zendaya has also had a feature screen in Venice, with 2021’s “Dune,” the second half of which will debut later this year.
The script comes from newcomer Justin Kuritzkes with Amy Pascal, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya and Rachel O’Connor acting as producers.
- 7/6/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
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Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, a ménage à trois tennis drama starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, will open the 80th Venice Film Festival, the festival announced Thursday. The film will screen out of competition.
Zendaya stars as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature, whose husband, a former champion played by West Side Story star Mike Faist, is on a losing streak. He ends up in a competition facing off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor), his former best friend and Tashi’s ex. As their past and present collide, Tashi is forced to ask herself what she is willing to do to win.
Challengers will premiere Aug. 30, kicking off the 2023 Venice Film Festival. The movie will roll out in the U.S. through MGM and Amazon Studios and internationally through Warner Bros Pictures. Challengers was written by Justin Kuritzkes and produced by Amy Pascal,...
Zendaya stars as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature, whose husband, a former champion played by West Side Story star Mike Faist, is on a losing streak. He ends up in a competition facing off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor), his former best friend and Tashi’s ex. As their past and present collide, Tashi is forced to ask herself what she is willing to do to win.
Challengers will premiere Aug. 30, kicking off the 2023 Venice Film Festival. The movie will roll out in the U.S. through MGM and Amazon Studios and internationally through Warner Bros Pictures. Challengers was written by Justin Kuritzkes and produced by Amy Pascal,...
- 7/6/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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The film stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist.
Challengers from director Luca Guadagnino will open the 80th Venice International Film Festival, which runs August 30-September 9.
The US film, which stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, will world premiere out of competition on August 30 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema.
MGM and Amazon Studios are handling US distribution, with Warner Bros Pictures distributing internationally.
The film sees Zendaya play Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach who is married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist). Her strategy for her husband’s redemption...
Challengers from director Luca Guadagnino will open the 80th Venice International Film Festival, which runs August 30-September 9.
The US film, which stars Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, will world premiere out of competition on August 30 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema.
MGM and Amazon Studios are handling US distribution, with Warner Bros Pictures distributing internationally.
The film sees Zendaya play Tashi, a former tennis prodigy turned coach who is married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist). Her strategy for her husband’s redemption...
- 7/6/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Zendaya Heads Back To The Lido With Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Challengers’ Set To Open Venice Film Festival
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The Venice Film Festival will open with the world premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s latest pic Challengers.
The film will be screened Out of Competition on Wednesday, August 30, in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia), on the opening night of the 80th Venice Film Festival.
The pic, which hits U.S. theaters September 15, stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a tennis prodigy-turned-coach and a force of nature, who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion (Mike Faist from West Side Story) on a losing streak, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend. As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win?
“I...
The film will be screened Out of Competition on Wednesday, August 30, in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia), on the opening night of the 80th Venice Film Festival.
The pic, which hits U.S. theaters September 15, stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a tennis prodigy-turned-coach and a force of nature, who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion (Mike Faist from West Side Story) on a losing streak, Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend. As their pasts and presents collide, and tensions run high, Tashi must ask herself, what will it cost to win?
“I...
- 7/6/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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"You don't know what tennis is... It's a relationship... We went somewhere really beautiful together." MGM Studios has revealed the first official trailer for the highly anticipated tennis film called Challengers, the latest feature from filmmaker Luca Guadagnino. "The art of seduction and other games." After a losing streak, the wife and coach of a Grand Slam champion signs him up for Challenger event where he will face off against her former lover – and his former competitor. The main cast includes Zendaya, Josh O'Connor, and Mike Faist as the trio at the center of this lovers' quarrel, along with A.J. Lister and Jake Jensen. No premieres have been announced yet, but this one is expected to show up at the festivals in the fall including Telluride and Venice before it opens in select US theaters in September. This looks seductive and wicked and thrilling on so many different levels. I'm in!
- 6/20/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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It’s game, set, match in the sexy first trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s latest feature, “Challengers.” The latest from the “Bones and All” director tells the story of Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy turned coach who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s redemption takes a surprising turn when he must face off against the washed-up Patrick (Josh O’Connor) – his former best friend and Tashi’s former boyfriend.
The trailer, perfectly timed to Rihanna’s “S&m,” feels more like a throwback to Gudagnino’s 2015 feature, “A Bigger Splash,” itself looking at the romantic entanglements between a group of friends. Zendaya’s wardrobe alone, courtesy of J.W. Anderson, looks fantastic, as does her cool confidence as the enigmatic Tashi. This may be a far cry from...
The trailer, perfectly timed to Rihanna’s “S&m,” feels more like a throwback to Gudagnino’s 2015 feature, “A Bigger Splash,” itself looking at the romantic entanglements between a group of friends. Zendaya’s wardrobe alone, courtesy of J.W. Anderson, looks fantastic, as does her cool confidence as the enigmatic Tashi. This may be a far cry from...
- 6/20/2023
- by Kristen Lopez
- The Wrap
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Showing Up contains many of the hallmarks of a classic Kelly Reichardt picture: a Pacific Northwest setting, a Jonathan Raymond co-writing credit, Christopher Blauvelt cinematography, a rich ensemble cast, and an unrivaled attention to locations, production design, and wardrobe. There’s also Michelle Williams appearing in her fourth Reichardt film, their collaboration having begun with 2008’s Wendy and Lucy.
In Showing Up, Williams is Lizzy, a talented sculptor who finds herself a bit worn down by the realities of modern life. By all accounts she has a decent day job––something she likely wouldn’t refute––working in the office of the liberal arts college she attended. Outside of offering her rent and cat food money, the position keeps Lizzy plugged into the local art scene and most importantly grants her free access to the campus kiln (operated by André Benjamin in a joyful role).
Outside of Williams, that aforementioned...
In Showing Up, Williams is Lizzy, a talented sculptor who finds herself a bit worn down by the realities of modern life. By all accounts she has a decent day job––something she likely wouldn’t refute––working in the office of the liberal arts college she attended. Outside of offering her rent and cat food money, the position keeps Lizzy plugged into the local art scene and most importantly grants her free access to the campus kiln (operated by André Benjamin in a joyful role).
Outside of Williams, that aforementioned...
- 4/6/2023
- by Caleb Hammond
- The Film Stage
With her upcoming Marvel/Sony superhero feature "Madame Web" releasing early 2004, actress Dakota Johnson, the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, is no stranger to posing for fashion photographers and international magazine covers:
"...Johnson's breakthrough role was playing 'Anastasia Steele' in the erotic romantic drama film series "Fifty Shades" (2015–2018)...
"...and received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2016.
"Johnson then appeared in films "Black Mass" (2015)...
"...Luca Guadagnino's drama "A Bigger Splash" (2015)...
"...the romantic comedy "How to Be Single" (2016)...
"...the supernatural horror film "Suspiria" (2018)...
"...the thriller "Bad Times at the El Royale" (2018)...
"...the coming-of-age film "The Peanut Butter Falcon" (2019)...
"...Maggie Gyllenhaal's psychological drama "The Lost Daughter" (2021)...
"...and Cooper Raiff's "Cha Cha Real Smooth" (2022).
"February 2022, Johnson was cast as 'Madame Web' in the upcoming superhero film of the same name, set in Sony's 'Spider-Man Universe'.
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"...Johnson's breakthrough role was playing 'Anastasia Steele' in the erotic romantic drama film series "Fifty Shades" (2015–2018)...
"...and received a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2016.
"Johnson then appeared in films "Black Mass" (2015)...
"...Luca Guadagnino's drama "A Bigger Splash" (2015)...
"...the romantic comedy "How to Be Single" (2016)...
"...the supernatural horror film "Suspiria" (2018)...
"...the thriller "Bad Times at the El Royale" (2018)...
"...the coming-of-age film "The Peanut Butter Falcon" (2019)...
"...Maggie Gyllenhaal's psychological drama "The Lost Daughter" (2021)...
"...and Cooper Raiff's "Cha Cha Real Smooth" (2022).
"February 2022, Johnson was cast as 'Madame Web' in the upcoming superhero film of the same name, set in Sony's 'Spider-Man Universe'.
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- 3/6/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
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There are a few actors that come to mind when one thinks of director Luca Guadagnino: Dakota Johnson, who starred in his films A Bigger Splash and Suspiria; Michael Stuhlbarg, who appeared in Call Me By Your Name and Bones And All; Timothee Chalamet, who also starred in Bones and Cmbyn. And then there’s Armie Hammer,…...
- 1/20/2023
- by Mary Kate Carr
- avclub.com
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Dakota Johnson isn’t afraid to go there.
On Thursday night, the actress appeared a Sundance Film Festival dinner to present director Luca Guadagnino with an award, but it was her Armie Hammer joke that got everyone’s attention.
Read More: Armie Hammer’s Ex Courtney Vucekovich Responds To ‘House Of Hammer’ Viewers Questioning Bite-Mark Photo
Getting up onstage to introduce the director at the A Taste of Sundance dinner, Johnson spoke about the pleasure of working with him on both “A Bigger Splash” and “Suspiria”, though she noted her sadness at not being cast in his acclaimed “Call Me By Your Name”.
“Luca had asked me to play the role of the peach, but our schedules conflicted,” she joked, referring to an infamous scene involving a peach. “Thank God, because then I would have been another woman that Armie Hammer tried to eat.”
Dakota Johnson jokes that she wasn...
On Thursday night, the actress appeared a Sundance Film Festival dinner to present director Luca Guadagnino with an award, but it was her Armie Hammer joke that got everyone’s attention.
Read More: Armie Hammer’s Ex Courtney Vucekovich Responds To ‘House Of Hammer’ Viewers Questioning Bite-Mark Photo
Getting up onstage to introduce the director at the A Taste of Sundance dinner, Johnson spoke about the pleasure of working with him on both “A Bigger Splash” and “Suspiria”, though she noted her sadness at not being cast in his acclaimed “Call Me By Your Name”.
“Luca had asked me to play the role of the peach, but our schedules conflicted,” she joked, referring to an infamous scene involving a peach. “Thank God, because then I would have been another woman that Armie Hammer tried to eat.”
Dakota Johnson jokes that she wasn...
- 1/20/2023
- by Corey Atad
- ET Canada
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Dakota Johnson shocked a crowd at Sundance with a bold joke about Armie Hammer’s cannibalism allegations.
The actor was presenting an award to director Luca Guadagnino, with whom she has worked on films including A Bigger Splash and Suspiria.
Johnson made the quip while discussing the filmmaker’s Call Me By Your Name, in which Hammer starred alongside Timothée Chalamet.
“It was here at Sundance in 2017 that audiences experienced a film that is uniquely characterised by Luca’s iconic approach to storytelling,” the Fifty Shades of Grey star said in a clip from the event that has been widely shared on Twitter.
“The vision and the style of it is Call Me By Your Name – sadly, I wasn’t in that one,” she continued, stating: “It was unfortunate.”
Referring to a memorable scene from the film, in which Hammer eats a peach that Chalamet’s character has performed a sexual act on,...
The actor was presenting an award to director Luca Guadagnino, with whom she has worked on films including A Bigger Splash and Suspiria.
Johnson made the quip while discussing the filmmaker’s Call Me By Your Name, in which Hammer starred alongside Timothée Chalamet.
“It was here at Sundance in 2017 that audiences experienced a film that is uniquely characterised by Luca’s iconic approach to storytelling,” the Fifty Shades of Grey star said in a clip from the event that has been widely shared on Twitter.
“The vision and the style of it is Call Me By Your Name – sadly, I wasn’t in that one,” she continued, stating: “It was unfortunate.”
Referring to a memorable scene from the film, in which Hammer eats a peach that Chalamet’s character has performed a sexual act on,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Jacob Stolworthy
- The Independent - Film
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