Luca guadagnino articles
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You Don't Have to Be a Tennis Person to Savor the Court Intrigue of Luca Guadagnino's 'Challengers'
Italian art-house director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, I Am Love, Bones and All) returned last weekend with a film in a subgenre that has rarely been seen on the big screen in decades: a smart romantic drama about driven professionals. In this case, they're competitive tennis players. Scripted by playwright Justin Kuritzkes, Challengers is also the rare sports drama that isn't a biopic. The deal In 2019, two estranged friends face off at an ATP Challenger Tour tennis match in...
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Coppola, Lucas, Schrader: 'New Hollywood' swansong set for Cannes
It is an offer they still can't refuse: Francis Ford Coppola will lead a parade of veteran American movie titans back to the Cannes Film Festival next week in a likely swansong for the "New Hollywood" generation.The 77th Cannes Film Festival begins next Tuesday, and runs until May 25. amz/er/fg
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The Phantom Menace's podrace grew out of George Lucas’ neverending need for speed
The propulsion that gives many of the Star Wars films their power comes from its filmmaker’s healthy fear of speed. Consider the perilousness of the cosmic dogfights in 1977's Star Wars, the way the Rebellion’s X-wings and Empire’s TIE fighters exploded in halos of sparks and flame, sometimes done in by their pilot’s miscalculations as much as an enemy’s laser blasts. Take a hard look at the Millennium Falcon, which looked like it was kitbashed from junk snatched from scrap heaps; how its...