Let Us Not Forget Lady Bird

Loving that there new Lady Bird poster! In case you missed my review of the movie, read that right here. Call Me By Your Name might be eating up the conversation when it comes to Timothée Chalamet Movies, and under that rubric it probably should since his role in Lady Bird is pretty small. But he is in Lady Bird and he is good in the part, which is not at all like Elio, so let's share this pair of just-dropped pictures of him in the film:

Can't wait for you guys to see this wonderful film. But wait, let's talk about Call Me By Your Name, as long as we're here. (Thought I'd let you go once the subject's been raised? HA!) The movie is out this weekend in the UK (lucky bastards) and so some new interviews have been making the rounds - talking to The Independent Luca Guadagnino has expounded on PenislessGate a little:

"I am the least prudish director you can meet. I’ve been very precise in using the female and male body on screen to convey all kind of emotions. I thought that the display of nudity in this specific movie was absolutely irrelevant and I understand that for James it would have been relevant but that is his vision, what is clear is that we had no limitations on what we wanted to do.

 ... Did you miss penises in this movie? I’m happy to hear any kind of criticism if it comes from a place of intelligence and listening."

I appreciate his insinuation there in the last part; it's been hard having this argument with folks on Twitter because I've found about 98% of the criticism aimed at the film for its supposed "lack of eroticism" (an insane case to make, to my mind) under-argued and reactionary. "Pan out the window" automatically equals a cop-out to a lot of folks, instead of the thoughtful, meaningful choice I took it as.

Yadda yadda I do realize that all of this is too impossible to argue before the movie has even come out - we are still a month (an exact month today!) away from the movie's US release. So I need to shut up about it. Anyway tickets are on sale for the movie's opening weekend in New York and Los Angeles right now, so start preparing your peach lunches! And in summation let me leave you with this quote from Luca in that same interview regarding his next movie:

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