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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Beautiful Boy Trailer – Timothee Chalamet has a meth problem!

September 24, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Thanks to Call Me By You Name and Ladybird, Timothee Chalamet certainly became a name to be conjured with, not just because he’s ridiculously good-looking, but also because he’s insanely talented, especially for such a young man. He’s already getting more great-notices and awards buzz for Beautiful Boy, which sees him starring opposite Steve Carell as a teen dealing with a drug problem.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, BEAUTIFUL BOY chronicles the true and inspiring story of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.’ Maura Tierney and Amy Run also star, with Felix Van Groeningen directing.

The film is due in UK cinemas January 2019. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Steve Carell, Maura Tierney  

Hot Summer Nights Trailer – Timothee Chalamet gets into dealing pot

April 14, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Timothee Chalamet really has come out of nowhere in the last year, scoring an Oscar nomination for Call Me By Your Name, whilst also appearing in the much praised Lady Bird and alongside Christian Bale in Hostiles. Now he’s taking the lead in a romantic thriller, although some will be sad the romance isn’t with Armie Hammer this time.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Set in Cape Cod over one scorching summer, Hot Summer Nights follows Daniel (Timothée Chalamet), a shy out-of-towner who gets in over his head flipping weed with the neighborhood rebel (Alex Roe) while pursuing his new business partner’s enigmatic sister (Maika Monroe). With a hurricane looming in the wings, tensions rise against a backdrop of drive-ins, arcades, and crashed parties as the stakes (and temperatures) grow ever higher.’

Hot Summer Nights arrives in the US in June. It’s not clear when it will arrive in the UK. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet  

Timothée Chalamet Wins Independent Spirit Award For Call Me By Your Name

March 4, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Gay hit Call Me By Your Name had reason to celebrate yesterday at the Independent Spirit Awards, as the movie’s star, Timothée Chalamet, won Best Male Lead. The film also picked up Best Cinematography for Sayombhu Mukdeeprom.

The Independent Spirit Awards are given out the day before the Oscars by Film Independent (which also runs the LA Film Festival), acnowledging and celebrating those films made by and released outside the Hollywood studio system.

Call Me By Your Name’s sucess that did mean the fellow gay-themed movie, Beach Rats, lost out, as it was nominated in the same categories. However, Call Me By Your Name wasn’t the only LGBT success at the awards, as the excellent trans-themed drama, A Fantastic Woman, picked up Best International Film, beating the gay French movie, BPM.

Queer filmmaker Dee Rees’ Mudbound was honoured with the Robert Altman Award, given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.

However, the big winner was Get Out, which won both Best Feature and Best Director for Jordan Peele. Oscar favourite Frances McDormand picked up Best Female Lead for Three Billboards, while the Supporting Male and Female went to Sam Rockwell, also for Three Billboards, and Alison Janney for I, Tonya.

You can find a full list of the winners and nominees over at the Film Independent website. [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Harris Dickinson  DIRECTORS: Jordan Peele  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, Beach Rats  

Call Me By Your Name Gets Top Honours At GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics Dorian Awards

January 31, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Amongst the myriad film awards given out at this time of year, GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics’s Dorian Awards has grown into one of the most distinct, both in terms of the diversity of its recipients and its unique categories (and I’m not just saying that because I’m a member). This year’s award winners have been announced, and it is not too surprising that Call Me By Your Name took both Film Of The Year and LGBTQ Film Of The Year (although it was a strong year for the latter).

The bittersweet story of two young men falling for each other in Italy in the early 1980s also earned Timothée Chalamet an awards for Film Performance of the Year – Actor, as well as picking up the Rising Star award. Meanwhile, Greta Gerwig, writer and helmer of the female-focused coming-of-age drama Lady Bird – which also featured Chalamet – was named Director of the Year.

Jordan Peele earned Screenplay of the Year for the impressive Get Out. He was also crowned Wilde Artist of the Year and ied with Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon for Wilde Wit of the Year. McKinnon also picked up TV Musical Performance of the Year for the second year in a row, for her impersonation of Kellyanne Conway taking her ‘alternative facts’ act to Broadway.

Film icon and feminist activist Meryl Streep was the group’s  choice for Timeless Star, a career achievement honor previously won by such equally beloved stars (and human-rights champions) Jane Fonda, Dame Angela Lansbury and Sir Ian McKellen.

There was also good news for the gay-themed British movie, God’s Own Country, as the powerful love story won GALECA’s Unsung Film of the Year. Awards-season darling The Shape of Water impressed as Visually Striking Film of the Year, and also picked up Best Actress for Sally Hawkins’ superlative performance. And mother!, Darren Aronofsky’s over-the-top psychological chiller starring Jennifer Lawrence, was deemed Campy Flick of the Year.

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (formerly known as the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association), comprises of over 200 gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally entertainment journalists in the U.S., Canada and U.K.

 

Take a look below for the full list of film and TV Dorian winners.  [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet  DIRECTORS: Greta Gerwig, Jordan Peele  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, Get Out  

Planned Call Me By Your Name Sequel Will Be Set During The AIDS Crisis

January 28, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Although the Oscar-nominated, gay-themed film, Call Me By Your Name, seems like a self-contained movie, director Luca Guadagnino has been talking about the possibility of turning it into a series of films, possibly made over several decades. Now he’s been talking about what the first of those follow-up movies may be, and where the story may go after Elio (Timothee Chalamet) and Oliver’s (Armie Hammer) romantic summer in Northern Italy in 1983.

Talking to Collider he says, “I think the next chapter it will be happening right after the fall of Berlin wall and that great shift that was the end of Russia, of the USSR, sorry. And we’ll see people leaving home and going in the world. That’s what I can say for now.”

He adds to THR, that it’s likely the AIDS crisis, “I think it’s going to be a very relevant part of the story… I think Elio will be a cinephile, and I’d like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali’s Once More.”

Vecchiali’s 1988 movie was the first French film to deal with AIDS.

Although it’s not known when we might see this sequel, Guadagnino has suggested it could be by 2020. “The texture we built together is very consistent. We created a place in which you believe in the world before them,” he says. “They are young but they are growing up. If I paired the age of Elio in the film with the age of Timothée, in three years’ time Timothée will be 25 as would Elio by the time the second story was set.”

There is some material to draw on for the follow-up movies, as the final 40 pages of Andre Aciman’s original novel detail what happens to Elio and Oliver in the 20 years after the main storyline. However, it’s not known if Guadagnino plans to stick to this or take it in a different direction.

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer  DIRECTORS: Luca Guadagnino  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name  

The Shape Of Water Scores 13 Oscar Nominations, While Call Me By Your Name Gets Four

January 23, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced this year’s Oscar nominees. In most years that would help solidify which films were the absolute frontrunners, but this remains one of the most open Oscar races for years. Guillermo Del Toro’s excellent The Shape Of Water leads the pack with an impressive 13 nominations (one short of the record of 14 nominations shared by Titanic, All About Eve and La La Land). However, that doesn’t mean it’s a shoo-in for the big awards, as many feel the likes of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and the acting category are likely to go to other movies.

Just to show how open a race it is, the second highest number of nominations went to Dunkirk, with eight, but few expect that film to pick up anything outsie the technical categories. More likely to be picking up some of the big gongs is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which scored seven nominations, including Best Film, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell (many feel Rockwell is the most likely to win of all the acting nominess, but even with him there’s controversy over his character’s racism). However, despite many feeling Three Billboards has an extremely good shot at winning Best Picture, Martin McDonagh failed to get a Best Director nomination.

After several years of criticism for its lack of diversity, this year’s nominations did make some small steps towards sexual and racial equality, particularly in the Best Director category. McDonagh may have missed out on a Best Director nomination, but so did Steven Spielberg and several other major contenders. Instead, Jordan Peele is now the fifth African-American director to ever score a Best Director nomination for Get Out (none has ever won), while Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman in the same category (only Kathryn Bigelow has won). And following anger at how few black actors scored nominations in the last few years, this year Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) and Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) were nominated for Best Actor, while Mary J. Blige (Mudbound) and Octavia Spencer (The Shape Of Water) are included in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Many have also noted there seems to have been swift professional retribution for James Franco, who emerged as one of the Best Actor frontrunners following his Golden Globe win for The Disaster Artist. However, he’s since been embroiled in allegations of harrassment and innapropriate behaviour, and has now failed to score a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

LGBT hopes were always going to be led by Call Me By Your Name. While it’s not been quite the awards powerhouse it looked like it might be early in the season, the gay romance nevertheless scored four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Original Song and Best Screenplay. While many feel its best chance of a gong is for gay elder statesman James Ivory’s masterful screenplay, the Best Actor nomination for Timothee Chalamet is notable for another reason. At just 22 he’s the youngest Best Actor nominee since Mickey Rooney in 1939, and third youngest ever.

Many will be disappointed that there was no nomination for Armie Hammer. However, while he was the early frontrunner in the Best Supporting Actor category, others have since crowded him out – despite the fact in many other years there’s a good chance he’d have won.

Elsewhere the wonderful Chilean trans-themed film, A Fantastic Woman was nominated in the Best Foreign Language film category, while Richard Jenkins was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing a gay character in The Shape Of Water.

Take a look at the full list of nominations below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand  DIRECTORS: Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, The Shape Of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri, Get Out  

LGBTQ Film & TV Critics Group GALECA Announces Its Dorian Awards Nominations

January 10, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Golden Globes were handed out last week and the Oscars and still to come, but sandwiched between them is the Dorian Film and TV Awards, given out by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (of which yours truly is a member).

The nominations for this year’s gongs have been announced, which were unsurprisingly led by Call Me by Your Name, which scored nine nominations. That includes nods for both the film’s lead actors, Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, as well as for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director and more.

While other film awards have treated Call Me By You Name as the ony great gay-themed movie of the year, GALECA has highlighted others, most notably the excellent French movie, BPM (Beat Per Minute), about members of the activist AIDS organisation ACT UP Paris in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As well as expected nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film and LGBTQ Film Of The Year categories, it also scored nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (for Nahuel Perez Biscayart) and Unsung Film Of The Year.

It may also not be a coincidence that the other nominees for Best Film also had stories that focussed on outsiders – Lady Bird (which also features a prominent gay subplot), Get Out and The Shape of Water. Nods for LGBTQ Film Of The Year went to Battle of the Sexes, the excellent trans-themed Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, and Britain’s gay farming flick, God’s Own Country, along with Call Me By Your Name and BPM.

Other than Call Me By Your Name, the most nominations in the film categories overall went to The Shape of Water with seven nominations, and Get Out, which scored six.

There’s also the Dorian’s more unusual categories, including Campy Film Of The Year, where Baywatch, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Showman, I, Tonya and mother! will compete for being the most over the top. You can take a look at the nominees for all the categories across film and TV below. The winners will be announced on January 31st, ahead of the winner’s toast in LA on February 24th. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Nahuel Perez Biscayart  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, 120 Beats Per Minute (BPM) Get Out, Lady Bird, The Shape Of Water  

The Shape Of Water Tops BAFTA Nominations, While Call Me By Your Name Leads LGBT Nominees

January 9, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Today the nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards were announced, with Guillermo Del Toro’s grown-up fantasy The Shape Of Water leading the pack with 12 nods. It scored nominations for Best Film, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Sound, Editing and Special Visual Effects. Guillermo del Toro is nominated for both Director and Original Screenplay, Sally Hawkins for Leading Actress and Octavia Spencer for Supporting Actress.

Next up were Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which both receives nine nominations; Blade Runner 2049 and Dunkirk with eight, and I, Tonya with five. Many were surprised that Blade Runner 2049 did so well, especially as it scored a coveted Best Director nomination, alongside nods in numerous technical category.

The gay-themed Call Me By Your Name picked up four nominations, including Best Film and Adapted Screenplay for gay writer James Ivory. Luca Guadagnino is nominated for Director, while Timothée Chalamet is nominated for Leading Actor. There was no nomination though in the Supporting Actor category for Armie Hammer, despite him going into awards season as one of the frontrunners for the equivalent Oscar.

Chalamet was also nominated in the previously announced EE Rising Star category, which is voted for by the public and goes to an up and coming actor. Also nominated in that category is Josh O’Connor, who starred in the gay Brit hit God’s Own Country. That movie was also nominated for Outstanding British Film, but unfortunately it wasn’t seen included in any other categories, despite being one of the most praised British movies of the past year.

Other LGBT nominations include I Am Not Your Negro in Best Documntary, which is about gay activist and writer, James Baldwin. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool scored three nominations including Leading Actress for Annette Bening and Jamie Bell for Leading Actor. The characters they play are bisexual, although it’s treated a very minor point in the movie.

Take a look at the full list of nominees below? [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Josh O'Connor  FILMS: The Shape Of Water, Call Me By Your Name, Blade Runner 2049  

Gay-Themed Hit Call Me By Your Name Could Become A Series Of Films Told Over Decades

January 2, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

There’s currently a lot of speculation over whether the Oscars will shower praise on Call Me By Your Name or ignore it. Either way, it’s become one of the most praised and highest profile gay-themed releases of the past few years, and has certainly filled a lot of column inches.

Now director Luca Guadagnino has suggested this may not be the last we see of Elio (Timothee Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer). He’s previously hinted that he’d be interested in a sequel, but now he’s posited the idea of a series of films, potentially told over many years. There is material for this, as while the film suggests a finality to the love affair between 17-year-old Elio and 25-year-old Oliver, the original novel it’s based on quickly details what happens to the duo over the next couple of decades.

Talking to The Guardian, Guadagnino says, “These characters are so fantastic, and I want to know what happens to them. The last 40 pages of the book tell you about 20 years in the life of Oliver and Elio. So I started to think about Michael Apted’s Up, and the cycle of films [Francois] Truffaut devoted to the character of Antoine Doinel. And I thought, maybe it’s not a question of sequel, it’s a question of chronicling everyone in this film. I think seeing these characters growing in the bodies of these actors will be quite fantastic.”

Apted’s Up is a documentary series which has followed the same group of people from when they were seven, with the last film catching up with them when they were 56. Antoine Doinel meanwhile was essentially Truffaut’s alter-ego, who he included in several features and short films, over the course of more than 20 years.

This suggests that rather than an imminent sequel, Guadagnino envisions waiting a few years and then making a move that catches up with his characters, or perhaps just one of the characters, and shows up where their life has gone. It’s certainly an interesting idea, although one that is pretty ambitious, so even if he wants to do it, there’s no guarantee he’ll be able to. Equally, Call Me By Your Name is such a potent mixture, not least 89-year-old James Ivory’s meticulous and brilliant screenplay, that it would be difficult to capture lightning in a bottle again. It’ll certainly be interesting to see if it happens.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet  DIRECTORS: Luca Guadagnino, Jame Ivory  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name  

Call Me By Your Name Picks Up Three Golden Globe Nominations – See The Full List

December 11, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It still seems wrong that it’s not even the end of the year – with multiple major movies still to be released – but critics groups and awards ceremonies are already announcing their nominations and winners for the best films of the year. It’s largely due to the fact that a few years ago the Oscars decided to move closer to the start of the year, so all the other ceremonies and announcements also moved their dates up, many into early/mid-December.

Today one of the main bellweathers for the Oscar race was announced, the Golden Globe nominations. They were led by The Shape Of Water, which picked up seven nominations. It was a stronger showing than many expected, especially as it was competing in the Drama section (rather than the usually less competitive Musical or Comedy categories), and will help ensure that eyes are on it as we enter Oscar season.

Spielberg’s timely journalistic drama, The Post, was next with six nominations, the same number as Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – a film few had heard of until recently, but which is now shaping up to be a major Oscar contender. However, it just goes to show what an open race it is, as Call Me By Your Name, which has picked up several of the earliest Best Film awards, got just three nominations. It even missed out on a Best Director nomination of Luca Guadagnino, which many think it has a good shot of winning the Oscar for. However, all its noms were in major drama categories – Best Film, Best Actor for Timothee Chalamet and Best Supporting Actor for Armie Hammer.

Other than Call Me By Your Name and a couple of nominations for the loosely LGBT-themed Battle Of The Sexes (Best Actor and Best Actress for Steve Carrell and Emma Stone), there wasn’t much gay love in the film nominations, although Will & Grace picked up two nominations in the TV awards. There was also a love for female drama (of a rather camp-nature, it must be said) in the TV nominations, as they were led by six nomination for Big Little Lies and four for Feud: Bette and Joan. Both of those came out ahead of what many thought would be the leader – The Handmaid’s Tale, which only scored three nominations.

However, the biggest surprise for gay film fans was BPM missing out on a Best Foreign Language Film nomination. Many Critics Groups are expected to choose it as their best non-English Language movie (the The New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association have already done so), so the fact it’s not even on the noms list for the Globes is a big surprise.

Take a look at the full list of nominees below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Emma Stone, Steve Carell  DIRECTORS: Luca Guadagnino  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, The Post, The Shape Of Water, Battle Of The Sexes  
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