We are joined by special guest Alex Heeney, the founder and editor in chief of Seventh Row, to dive into Luca Guadagnino's 2017 coming-of-age masterpiece, Call Me By Your Name. They talk about their deep personal connections to the film, with Alex recounting her experience at the world premiere at Sundance and Wilson sharing his obsessive journey preparing for the New York Film Festival premiere of the film. Eli discusses the film's sensual direction, and Ben explains why he thinks this is Guadagnino’s most mature work.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:14 Introducing Alex Heeney
00:04:00 Our histories with CMBYN
00:21:50 Masculinity and Romance
00:26:03 Narrative structure
00:32:05 Performances
00:37:39 Scenes and blocking
00:41:00 The statue scene
00:47:44 The parents
00:51:20 The peach scene
01:00:30 Age gap discourse
01:10:42 Homophobia and queerness
01:13:05 Cinematography and Marzia
01:31:00 Editing
01:35:36 The Sufjan element
01:39:15 Outro