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Armie Hammer & Timothée Chalamet find love in Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Aloysius J. Gleek:
Timothée Chalamet is handed the difficult task of making Elio authentically aloof and cold at times. Though he’s a teenager desperate for the approval of everyone around him, he possesses a vulnerability that he displays only occasionally. Armie Hammer, who could so easily be reduced to the part of a typically handsome Hollywood stand-in, is mesmerizing; he switches between Oliver’s public brashness and private tenderness with ease, making his character far more than a simple object of desire.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/11/call-me-by-your-name-review/546872/
The Sumptuous Love Story of
Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino’s tale of budding gay romance in 1980s Italy
is one of the most mesmerizing films of the year.
by DAVID SIMS
29 November 2017 6:00 AM ET
Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name.
“What do you do around here?” the tall, strapping Oliver (Armie Hammer) asks Elio (Timothée Chalamet), the 17-year-old giving him a tour of the charming Italian village where Oliver will be living for the next six weeks. “Wait for the summer to end,” the bored-seeming Elio says with a sigh. “And what do you do in the winter? Wait for the summer to come?” Oliver shoots back. That only gets a chuckle from Elio, but that line nails the initial mood of Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino’s sumptuous new romance, which follows a deep connection that springs out of those restless days of late adolescence.
Elio is the intelligent, charming son of archeology professor Samuel Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg), with whom Oliver, a graduate student, is interning for the summer. Guadagnino’s film, based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman, charts Elio and Oliver’s relationship, which develops haltingly at first but then burns brightly. It’s a swooning tale about the seismic power of first love—one that doesn’t dismiss Elio’s experience as a folly of youth, but instead digs into the unmistakable trace it leaves, for better or worse.
It’s also a story of queer love that isn’t tinged with horror or tragedy, a gay romance about a genuine attachment. At the same time, Call Me by Your Name doesn’t attempt to sanitize itself as a bland, “universal” film in hopes of appealing to a wider audience. It’s both intensely erotic and intensely contained, acknowledging the very private lives gay men were forced to lead in the early 1980s, when the film is set. As a result, in Call Me by Your Name, virtually every bit of physical contact is crucial and electrifying.
The intimacy Guadagnino (and James Ivory, who wrote the film’s script) finds in these characters is present from the beginning, but Chalamet (a 21-year-old budding superstar who I knew best from an old season of Homeland ) is the audience’s way in, as a boy on the verge of adulthood who develops immediate, if confused, attraction to the confident Oliver. Not long after the two first meet, Elio retires to his room and reclines in his bed, looking at the tuft of hair sprouting from his armpit, and lazily blowing on it. A few scenes later, Elio is bold enough to sneak into Oliver’s empty room and put Oliver’s swimsuit over his head.
Guadagnino doesn’t include these moments to advance the plot or to let the audience in on some secret; the connection between Elio and Oliver is apparent very quickly. Rather, he’s trying to sketch a portrait of personal, formative experiences of sexuality, and of Elio’s relationship with his own body. It’s tremendously insightful work from a director who has long appreciated actors’ bodies as more than aesthetic objects. In his 2009 film I Am Love, Guadagnino presented Tilda Swinton—as a married woman having a dangerous affair—at her most ravishing, and then spends the movie digging into her vulnerable psyche. In A Bigger Splash, a music producer played by Ralph Fiennes was all physicality, dancing wildly for the camera in an extended introduction, but Guadagnino goes on to expose just how strung out his character really was.
Even compared to the director’s previous films (which are excellent and worth watching), Call Me by Your Name is a huge step forward for Guadagnino. The story manages to transcend all its genre trappings: This isn’t just a luxurious vacation movie, but it’s still crammed to the gills with gorgeous shots of the Italian countryside and Elio’s family home. This isn’t just an erotic drama, and yet the love scenes are all choreographed with care. And most importantly, this isn’t just a coming-of-age tale, but the ardor Elio and Oliver have for each other feels utterly vital, as if every touch will be seared into their memories.
Chalamet is handed the difficult task of making Elio authentically aloof and cold at times. Though he’s a teenager desperate for the approval of everyone around him, he possesses a vulnerability that he displays only occasionally. Hammer, who could so easily be reduced to the part of a typically handsome Hollywood stand-in, is mesmerizing; he switches between Oliver’s public brashness and private tenderness with ease, making his character far more than a simple object of desire. And lurking in the background is Stuhlbarg, wonderful as a knowing father who is content to mostly let his son figure things out by himself, but who steps in with a guiding hand when things get a little tougher. (He also delivers one of the most astonishing film monologues of recent memory.)
Call Me by Your Name soaks in that end-of-summer mood throughout, one where each move in Elio and Oliver’s courtship is loaded with tension (simply because their time together is so short, and thus so meaningful). As such, it’s thrilling to watch, even as the pair waste the days away swimming, biking, and talking around their feelings; when their dynamic finally explodes into passion, it’s one of the year’s most satisfying film moments. Each element is carefully calibrated, but deployed with consummate grace—this is a film to rush to, and to then savor every minute of.
DAVID SIMS is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, where he covers culture.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
https://gotham.ifp.org/
Best Feature
Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino, director; Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, Rodrigo Teixeira, Marco Morabito, James Ivory, Howard Rosenman, producers
(Sony Pictures Classics)
[youtube=825,450]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9CvHQRP61M[/youtube]
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
wins the 2017 IFP Gotham Award for
Best Feature
Independent Filmmaker Project
Published on Nov 28, 2017
Director Luca Guadagnino and team (including screenwriter James Ivory and producer Peter Spears) accept the IFP Gotham Award for Best Feature for CALL ME BY YOUR NAME at the 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. The ceremony took place on November 27th, 2017 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
[youtube=825,450]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV_IN9m0TdA[/youtube]
Timothée Chalamet
winning the Breakthrough Actor Gotham Award for
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Independent Filmmaker Project
Published on Nov 28, 2017
Timothée Chalamet accepts the 2017 IFP Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor for CALL ME BY YOUR NAME at the 27th Annual IFP Gotham Awards. The ceremony took place on November 27th, 2017 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham_Awards
The Gotham Independent Film Awards are American film awards, presented annually to the makers of independent films at a ceremony in New York City, the city first nicknamed "Gotham" by native son Washington Irving, in an issue of Salmagundi, published on November 11, 1807. Part of the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), "the largest membership organization in the United States dedicated to independent film" (founded in 1979), the awards were inaugurated in 1991 as a means of showcasing and honoring films made primarily in the northeastern region of the United States.
https://gotham.ifp.org/
Nominations Announced
Thursday, October 19
Awards
Monday, November 27
Watch The IFP
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Aloysius J. Gleek:
[youtube=825,450]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOna2IYkzsQ[/youtube]
Find out why Armie Hammer's Mom refuses to see
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
SiriusXM
Published on Nov 28, 2017
Armie Hammer sits down with Andy Cohen (as well as Luca Guadagnino, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg) in the SiriusXM studios in New York City to talk about his upcoming role as Oliver in Call Me by Your Name. Armie talks about how he believes his mother will not see Call Me by Your Name due to the film's content.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
THIS CONVERSATION IS LITERALLY BRILLIANT!
Touching, funny and intelligent!
Sweet and charming, jam packed with juicy details,
it is worth listening/watching for every minute of the 58:36!(Of one of the many, many lovely moments, one for me, personally, is beyond amazing, at 2:42-4:37: we learn that, sometime in 2014, André, Luca and James Ivory met in a restaurant just immediately below James Ivory's apartment in NY (James is 89 years old, after all!)--a restaurant (on 52nd Street near 1st Ave, I happen to know) I've been to many, many times--I live two blocks away. So, I'm awestruck AND envious--if ONLY I could have been the fly on the wall!)
[youtube=825,450]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcC2StRcc[/youtube]
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Luca Guadagnino and André Aciman
with Hunter Harris (59:28)
The New York Public Library
Published on Nov 27, 2017
Celebrating the release of the new film Call Me by Your Name, a melancholic tale of first love and youthful exploration, director Luca Guadagnino and novelist André Aciman take to the NYPL stage. The two will discuss the making of the story, first in the form of the original acclaimed novel by Aciman, and now as a major feature film by Guadagnino. [New York Magazine's] Vulture's associate editor Hunter Harris moderates the discussion.
Aloysius J. Gleek:
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The previous French edition of the book is being reissued with a title change, from 'Plus tard ou jamais' ('Later or never', pub. Nov 3 2008) to the more consistent 'Appelle-moi par ton nom' ('Call me by your name', pub. Feb 7 2018) but I'm sorry that I didn't buy a copy before all copies of the old title suddenly disappeared. Quel dommage!
HOWEVER-- why didn't they use 'The FONT'? https://www.amazon.fr/Appelle-moi-par-ton-nom-Jean-Pierre/dp/2246815797
I have to say I think it's Very Annoying!! >:(
I mean--the Brazilians managed!
https://www.intrinseca.com.br/livro/805/
BTW, if, like me (and like André Aciman himself!) you wondered about the handmade, specifically designed 'font' for the movie poster and the opening titles (Lettering for the Poster and Credits by CHEN LI art & calligraphy 陈莉艺术 Milano, ITALIA), Luca, who thinks of everything, explained it all in this Q&A here: 52:10 - 53:53!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcC2StRcc
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Luca Guadagnino and André Aciman
with Hunter Harris (59:28)
The New York Public Library
Published on Nov 27, 2017
Celebrating the release of the new film Call Me by Your Name, a melancholic tale of first love and youthful exploration, director Luca Guadagnino and novelist André Aciman take to the NYPL stage. The two will discuss the making of the story, first in the form of the original acclaimed novel by Aciman, and now as a major feature film by Guadagnino. [New York Magazine's] Vulture's associate editor Hunter Harris moderates the discussion.
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http://www.chenli.it/calligraphy.html
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