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Post by MagdaFR on Jul 7, 2017 0:57:06 GMT
Luca Guadagnino is going to lose his AW admirers. First he casts BC and now Felicity Jones! Lol.
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Post by coolclearwaters on Jul 7, 2017 1:06:04 GMT
I think the fact that Guadagnino is making so many movies so quickly is a wonderful sign that he's finding it easy to get funding - that he's hot and a lot of people want to work with him.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 7, 2017 1:34:28 GMT
TBH I can't imagine him doing a tent-pole movie. His style is not exactly the most audience friendly. The two movies I have seen are about rich people enjoying themselves in beautiful natural sets and it's until very late in the plot that actually something happens (an illegal romance in one of them and a murder in the other one). They don't have a completely straightforward plot. Even when I loved A Bigger Splash I'm not surprised its rating it's very low in both Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb audience ratings. Of course he is doing Suspiria now, a horror film, but considering it's an indie movie I think it would be something non-conventional.
I don't know about his new movie maybe it's more accessible. It seems to get his best reviews ever (not that he hasn't have great reviews before) and creating him a lot of new fans. I also think the gay theme is helping it. It's a "political correct" theme and he is gay so probably there won't be attacks for some perceived error during the promotion. Although who knows? The Oscar race is young and he seems to be very vocal about his opinions!
Anyway I can see accusations of being a sell-out if he concretes this project. Although another director with a very artistic vision as David Lowry successfully did an audience friendly Disney movie, Pete's Dragon (which actually wasn't very successful in the box office and he abandoned a project with BC to do it!!!). For now, we are lucky that BC is attached to the adult movie produced by risky StudioCanal. Nothing against tent poles and I wouldn't bother to watch him participate in this project, too but it's cool he was announced to the other one. Now it just need to happen!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2017 2:42:54 GMT
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Post by coolclearwaters on Jul 11, 2017 3:05:34 GMT
It doesn't sound like they are very far along on Swan Lake. They describe it as a "pitch" not even a script. I doubt it will effect Rio which is described as in pre-production.
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Post by dreamsincolour on Jul 11, 2017 20:23:05 GMT
Also I remember an interview in which Guadagnino criticized directors who do too much movies in a short time. LOL. I don't know what interview you were referring to there, Sgev, but it does seem a little odd (and certainly ironic) for Guadagnino to have apparently criticised others for cramming lots of projects in, when he's obviously himself cramming in more than pretty much anyone else. The context seems as if it might have been relevant. Was he being facetious perhaps, and poking fun at himself? Alternatively, it occurs to me that rather than talking about the number of projects directors take on (when there don't seem to be very many Hollywood orientated directors, at least, who don't apparently concentrate almost entirely on one film at a time through to completion/release) that he might rather have been referring to many directors rushing the filming process. Obviously that's largely an issue governed by the financial imperative to keep costs down, but to some extent there must be a trade off in both the quality of the result and in the length and extent of post production work. And it is quite noticeable that for all Guadagnino seems to be packing more projects in than other directors, he's also actually taking quite surprisingly longer to film some of his projects than others might. "Call Me By Your Name" production was only 6 weeks but "Suspiria" was over 4 1/2 months! Just a thought.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2017 22:11:10 GMT
I can't search the interview right now but I promise I will do later. It was old. He was actually talking directly about Xavier Dolan, not a Hollywood director. He said something about not trusting in directors like him who just do too much projects. There is also an interview in The Guardian in which he criticized a lot of beloved contemporary Italian directors: Nanni Moretti, Paolo Sorrentino, Mateo Garrone and others. I think he is a little bitchy! OK I found it quickly, purple.fr/magazine/fw-2015-issue-24/luca-guadagnino/If you read the whole interview you would know he is very critical of other modern filmmakers. He sounds like a film critic! Maybe because he was critic as he said in this interview!
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Post by coolclearwaters on Jul 11, 2017 23:08:34 GMT
That's a brilliant interview! Thanks for posting it.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jul 11, 2017 23:18:56 GMT
Yes, he is one of those directors who is also very thoughtful about cinema so it's a pleasure to read him. I normally would think it's not good to be so critical about contemporaries but having reading The Guardian interview in which he talks about other Italian filmmakers it seems to me he didn't have a good experience with the Italian film industry.
I think something similar happened here in Mexico with people like Guillermo del Toro and especially Alfonso Cuaron, they were more interested in genre movies and in middle classes stories, respectively, so they weren't exactly respected by the left-wing oriented national film industry even when critics loved them. Cuaron was very critical at certain moment but I don't remember they criticizing directly to someone by name.
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Post by coolclearwaters on Jul 11, 2017 23:50:48 GMT
I thought his comments were very thoughtful, but I can see how Xavier Dolan might be offended.
I'm old enough to remember when a particular country would suddenly explode with brilliant cinema (it seemed sudden to those of us on the outside). It was always so exciting. Mexican cinema was like that a few years ago. Are there any up and coming Mexican directors that people in the U.S. might not have heard of yet?
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