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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name.

Notes:

• Recorded 17th January 2018.
• Darren states that Call Me By Your Name has finished the run at the Lighthouse. Since the podcast was recorded, more shows have been added. You can see details here.
• Call Me By Your Name at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Brian Brooks at Deadline on Call Me By Your Name‘s superb box office performance.
• Eric Eidelstein at Mic on Call Me By Your Name‘s rejection of the trauma expected of LGBT romance narratives.
• K. Austin Collins at The Ringer on Call Me By Your Name‘s rejection of the angst expected of gay romances.
• Sufjan Stevens talks to Deadline about his work on the film.
• Luca Guadagnino talks to Birth.Movies.Deaths about his plans for the sequels.
• Billy Gray at Slate on the mainstream success of relatively “chaste” gay narratives like Moonlight and Call Me By Your Name.
• Hunter Harris and E. Alex Jung at Vulture on the classical influences on Call Me By Your Name.
• James Ivory talks to IndieWire about the lack of full frontal male nudity in Call Me By Your Name.
• Emilia Clarke talks to IndieWire about the double standard of male and female nudity on Game of Thrones.
• Christopher Hooton at The Independent on Game of Thrones‘ rather pointed response to criticisms of its double standards as regards full-frontal nudity.
• Armie Hammer discusses the editting of his testicles out of Call Me By Your Name with Vice.
• Brogan Morris at Vice on Armie Hammer’s status as “the internet’s boyfriend.”
• Miles Surrey at The Ringer offers an up-to-date list of the internet’s love with Armie Hammer.
• Armie Hammer talks to Vulture about transitioning away from tentpoles towards indie roles.
• Anne Helen Petersen attacks Armie Hammer’s career of flops in BuzzFeed.
• Steve Rose at The Guardian on the casting of straight actors as gay characters.
• Spencer Kornhaber at The Atlantic on the subtext lurking just beneath the surface of Call Me By Your Name.
• Eleanor Cummins at Slate on the abundance of house flies in Call Me By Your Name.
• Jeffrey Bloomer at Slate on the awkward context of the age gap between the lovers in Call Me By Your Name.
• Chad Felix Greene at Medium on the problematic elements of the romance at the heart of Call Me By Your Name.
• Kate Maltby at CNN on how Kevin Spacey’s coming out played into cultural stereotypes of older gay men as predators.
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot.
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Filed under: This Just In | Tagged: age gap, Armie Hammer, call me by your name, infatuation, love story, Luca Guadagnino |