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Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Wednesday, 7 August 2019
FILM 2021: MURDER MYSTERY
FILM 2021: MURDER MYSTERY
TRIVIA: This movie set a new Netflix record. Netflix claims that, in the first three days, 30,869,863 accounts watched the film: 13,374,914 North American accounts and and an additional 17,494,949 accounts watching from the rest of the world.
Adam Sandler's real life wife, Jackie Sandler, makes a cameo appearance as the flight attendant on the plane.
Andrea Bendewald, who plays a customer in the salon, is Jennifer Aniston's best friend. Bendewald was maid of honour at her wedding to Brad Pitt and guest starred in the sitcom "Friends."
Luke Evans and Victor Turpin are a couple in real life.
Thursday, 18 July 2019
INSPIRATION: INTERIORS
INSPIRATION: INTERIORS
This 17thcentury Italian villa is beautiful and surprising…
Sunday, 24 February 2019
FILM 1951: THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
FILM 1951: THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY
TRIVIA: Matt Damon actually sang the song "My Funny Valentine."
Jude Law learned to play the saxophone and Matt Damon learned to play the piano for this film. However while Damon's training enabled him to recreate the proper keyboard fingering the music heard in the film is played by Sally Heath (the Bach) and Gabriel Yared (the Vivaldi).
This is Matt Damon's favorite film he has made.
Leonardo DiCaprio was considered for the role of Tom Ripley.
Fausto and Dickie (and Tom, later) sing "Tu Vuo' Fa' L'Americano," a humorous song about an Italian man in the 50s who wants to imitate the American lifestyle he sees in the movies. But American food doesn't do him any good and in the end, the money he spends comes from his mother's purse.
After viewing this film, Tommy Wiseau was so emotionally moved that he vowed to make a film just as, if not more compelling. This film would become The Room (2003).
When Anthony Minghella learned that Cate Blanchett was interested in playing the small supporting role of Meredith - as opposed to the female lead - he duly expanded the role to get her on board.
Friday, 2 February 2018
FILM 1744: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
FILM 1744: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
TRIVIA: Timothée Chalamet learned
to speak Italian and to play the piano for the role of Elio.
On its premiere night, Call Me By
Your Name (2017) received a ten-minute standing ovation, which was the longest
standing ovation ever at the New York Film Festival.
The entire film (including the
opening credits) was shot with a single 35mm lens.
There was only one rehearsal before
shooting. In multiple interviews, Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer said that
director Luca Guadagnino asked them one day to come outside to do a rehearsal
in the backyard of the villa. They walked to a patch of grass and flipped their
scripts to a randomly selected scene to practice. When they opened the script,
the page only read, "Elio and Oliver roll around in the grass making
out." Chalamet and Hammer looked at each other and said, "Alright,
let's go!" Just seconds into the making out scene, however, Guadagnino
stepped in and directed them to act more "passionately." So they
started making out and continued to do so, and no one told them to stop.
Eventually, the two actors stopped, looked around and realized Guadagnino had
just walked away, leaving them rolling around in the grass. This was their only
rehearsal.
Despite various sexual scenes in
the film, Armie Hammer stated in an interview that the most uncomfortable he
ever felt during filming was when he was filming the dance scenes.
In the book, Elio is 17 years old
and Oliver is 24. Timothée Chalamet was 20 years old when the film was
shot, while Armie Hammer was 29. The film is set in Italy, and the
age of consent in the country is 14.
The film is dedicated to actor Bill
Paxton, who died in February 2017. Brian Swardson, the husband of one of the
film's producers, Peter Spears, was Bill Paxton's best friend and agent. He is
also the agent for Timothée Chalamet. Paxton visited the set in Italy and
became friends with director Luca Guadagnino. Guadagnino decided to honor
Paxton by dedicating the film to him.
Based on the book "Call me by
your name" written by André Aciman, the author himself appears in the
movie as Mounir.
Sunday, 16 October 2016
FILM 1579: AMANDA KNOX
American exchange student Amanda Knox is convicted
and eventually acquitted for the 2007 death of another student, Meredith
Kercher in Italy.
Sunday, 1 May 2016
BOOK 147: G.: JOHN BERGER
G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger. The novel's
setting is pre-First World
War Europe, and its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of
women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across
the continent. The novel, Berger's most formally experimental,
won both the James Tait
Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Booker Prize.
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