INSPIRATION: INTERIORS / TRAVEL

INSPIRATION: INTERIORS / TRAVEL

Look at these holiday spaces – the tiles, the bedding, the light, the windows, the hammocks! – I want to go to there…

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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.

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FILM 1572: BLENDED

TRIVIA: Jim mentions that he manages a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Ridgefield. Ridgefield was the name of the town that The Wedding Singer (1998) was set in.

This is the third Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore film, the first being The Wedding Singer (1998) and the second being 50 First Dates (2004).

The name ESPN for Adam Sandler's character's daughter in the movie came from Adam's visit to a BBQ restaurant in Boca Raton. The owner had pictures of his kids up, and one of their names was Espn. Adam thought it was a really fun name and asked the owner if he could use it in his new movie for one of his kids. Obviously the owner was happy to oblige.

The band that sings backup for Terry Crews is Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Alexis Arquette's final film.

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… OF THE DAY

You’ll soon learn that I don’t get a lot finished during the week (I have a full time job) but I will get a little inspiration and start projects.  So here is one of those things, it looks a little messy but its more to remind me what my idea was, a digital sketch if you will.  It’s a mosaic of pictures I took in Morocco in the shape of a mosaic that I photographed in Morocco.  (Have I confused you yet? I’ve confused myself…)

FILM 1123: THE WAY WAY BACK

TRIVIA: In an interview, writer/director Jim Rash said the script's main inspiration was the opening scene, inspired by a similar conversation he had with his own stepfather when he was 14.

The script was written in 2007 as "The Way Back", but the title was later changed to avoid confusion with the film The Way Back (2010). The title refers to the "way back seat," the 1970s colloquial expression for the third, often-hidden seat located in the cargo section of a station wagon.

The film was originally supposed to take place in 1984, but was moved into the present due to budgetary constraints. Owen's comment about how the water park "hasn't been upgraded since 1983" and Duncan's REO Speedwagon sing-along are both references to this fact.

Sam Rockwell would often improvise and joke around on the loudspeaker during scenes. One time, forgetting that there were children around, he made an inappropriate joke about herpes, which upset the owner of the park. Rockwell had to go and apologize so that they could continue filming.

In order to save money, the filmmakers decided to not get trailers for the actors, and instead decided to rent a house for the duration of filming (approx. 6 weeks), where the actors could go between takes. The house turned into a popular hangout spot for the cast and crew, and they would often go to the house even during weekends or days off.

In the original script, the character of Caitlyn was a young teenager who worked in the park and had no significant screen time. In later drafts, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon decided to make the character older and have her interact with Owen (Sam Rockwell)more, though it was mostly superficial interaction. When Maya Rudolph was cast, Rash and Faxon told Rudolph and Rockwell, that although there was not much in the script, the two actors would have to create a meaningful relationship between their two characters.