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‘Challengers’ Review: Foreplay and Forehands Volley in Luca Guadagnino’s Sweat-Drenched Tennis Love Triangle

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‘Challengers’ Review: Foreplay and Forehands Volley in Luca Guadagnino’s Sweat-Drenched Tennis Love Triangle

Josh Parham April 12, 2024

The arena of competitive sports is a prime location for engrossing storytelling. Inherently built within that structure is a fierce battleground. The clashing of personalities... Read More

Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Challengers’ to Heat Up the Lido as 80th Venice Film Festival Opener

Erik Anderson July 6, 2023

Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers will have its world premiere on Wednesday, August 30 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia), as the opening night film of the 80th Venice Film... Read More

Game, Sex, Match: Zendaya Takes on the Tennis World with Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor in the Trailer for ‘Challengers’

Ryan McQuade June 20, 2023

A steamy love triangle between Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist. I like it, like it, come on! MGM has released the first look at... Read More

Sundance 2023: Luca Guadagnino to receive International Icon Award at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance

Erik Anderson December 15, 2022

Today the nonprofit Sundance Institute announced that Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino will receive the International Icon Award at Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance... Read More

2022 Venice Film Festival Awards: Doc ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ named Best Film, ‘Bones and All,’ Saint Omer,’ Banshees of Inisherin’ snag dual wins

Erik Anderson September 10, 2022

The awards for the 79th Venice Film Festival were handed out tonight and the theme of the night was doubling up. While Laura Poitras’ riveting... Read More

‘Bones and All’ review: Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet are fine young cannibals in Luca Guadagnino’s gory, romantic road-mance [A-] | Telluride Film Festival

Ryan McQuade September 7, 2022

Director Luca Guadagnino is working on levels of comfort, or discomfort, most directors take their entire career to find. His last two directorial efforts brought... Read More

Provincetown Film Festival announces lineup; Luca Guadagnino, Jenny Slate, Bowen Yang are honorees

Erik Anderson May 5, 2022

The Provincetown International Film Festival (PIFF) announced today its lineup of narrative, documentary, and short films, as well as festival honorees for the Filmmaker on... Read More

Venice Review: Luca Guadagnino cobbles together a Ferragamo fantasy in ‘Salvatore – Shoemaker of Dreams’

Savina Petkova September 7, 2020

For three years, since 2017, Italian director Luca Guadagnino has been working on a documentary dedicated to the life and work of shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo... Read More

Trailer: HBO’s ‘We Are Who We Are’ from Luca Guadagnino explores love, gender and teenage life

Erik Anderson July 27, 2020

Academy Award nominated director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) goes back to Italy and young love with his newest project, and his first... Read More

Review: Luca Guadagnino’s uncompromising and masterful ‘Suspiria’ (★★★★)

Erik Anderson October 26, 2018

Luca Guadagnino has concocted a witches’ brew of primal sisterhood that isn’t for the faint of heart or patience. Nor should it be. It’s a... Read More