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Luca Guadagnino isn't Spielberg-level famous, but cinephiles know the Call Me By Your Name director and his melancholic pathos. Guadagnino shook things up in 2024 with Challengers, ditching his signature fuzzy European landscapes for sharp volleys on a tennis court, splitting his fan base into two camps (pro-
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Daniel Craig initially rose to prominence as Joe Pitt in the 1993 National Theater production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the most seminal theatrical work of the last fifty years. While his career has gone in other directions since, including a 15-year stint playing the lead in
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It was December 2022 when director Luca Guadagnino, best known for films like Call Me By Your Name, Bones and All, and Challengers, announced his next film would be a film adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel Queer, with Daniel Craig (James Bond) in the lead. Queer, which was
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The British Film Institute's London Film Festival is one of the last significant chances for most films to get themselves into the Awards Conversation. (The AFI Film Festival in November is THE last chance.) It's also a good bellwether of which films think they can grab
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The back-to-back International Film Festivals in Venice and Toronto mark the start of what is referred to as "awards season" in Hollywood. From superhero movies attempting to play themselves as more than they are to obscure foreign language debuts, these two events are where everyone rolls out what