Oscar nominee debuts
‘CALL ME BY YOUR NAME’ OPENS FRIDAY
Iam pleased to announce the exclusive premiere of two very different films to our city this weekend. “Call Me by Your Name” — nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Picture) — is rated 14A with a sexual content and nudity warning. It is 132 minutes long and will play daily at 1 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. It is certified fresh with a 96 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The other film making its debut is the crime thriller “Den of Thieves,” starring Gerard Butler. It is rated 14A with a coarse language and violence warning. It is 140 minutes in length, and will play daily at 12:50 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
According to Sony Pictures Classics, “‘Call Me by Your Name’, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family’s 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel).
“Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favour him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights.
“While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart.”
“Den of Thieves” is a new film from STXfilms, and their website describes it as follows: “A gritty Los Angeles crime saga which follows the intersecting and often personally connected lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff’s Dept. and the state’s most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank of downtown Los Angeles.”
Awards season is in full force, and FINALLY some of the nominated pictures are hitting our “small” (according to film companies) city. I hope that you will take opportunity to check out the films that have been selected as the “best of the best” Hollywood has offered up in 2017. Over the next few weeks watch for critical titles including “Darkest Hour,” “I, Tonya,” “Phantom Thread,” “The Shape of Water” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” See you at the movie theatre! Please feel free to contact me with your comments or feedback — even an idea for an article — len@moviemill.com. Hope to see you at the movies!