June 1, 2024
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017) – AFI Movie Club
A tender-hearted tryst directed by Luca Guadagnino, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017) was honored in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD in 2017, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official AFI AWARDS rationale, “CALL ME BY YOUR...
January 3, 2024
ARRIVAL (2016) – AFI Movie Club
ARRIVAL was recognized with a 2016 AFI AWARD, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “ARRIVAL signals cinema’s unique ability to bend time, space and the mind. Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral celebration of communication — fueled by Eric Heisserer’s monumental script – is grounded in unstoppable emotion. As...
January 29, 2023
A SERIOUS MAN (2009) – AFI Movie Club
A SERIOUS MAN (2009) was recognized in the year of its release with an AFI AWARD, naming it among the most outstanding motion pictures of year. According to the official rationale, “A SERIOUS MAN is a theological shaggy dog story that could only spring from the miraculous minds of Joel and Ethan Coen. The film...
June 12, 2020
AFI Movie Club: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME was honored with an AFI AWARD in 2017 – recognizing it as one of the 10 outstanding films deemed culturally and artistically representative of the year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image – and was the Centerpiece Gala screening at AFI FEST 2017 Presented by Audi. In…
November 9, 2017
AFI FEST 2017: Timothée Chalamet on CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Rising star Timothée Chalamet spends a sun-dappled summer in Italy falling in love with Armie Hammer in director Luca Guadagnino’s exquisite CALL ME BY YOUR NAME. Adapted from the celebrated novel by André Aciman, the passionate romance — built on stolen glances, coded exchanges and erotic tension — is also a coming-of-age story, with its young protagonist Elio…
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