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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Find more of Alex on Seventh Row. They are hosting a summit celebrating queer and trans stories called Living Out Loud. Check it out here.

Mina Le: why does hollywood love an age gap romance?

Ben’s CMBYN meme video

Women around the fountain video

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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

We continue our series on Akerman with a double-bill of personal documentaries about her mother, and of home. News from Home immediately follows her seminal Jeanne Dielman, and No Home Movie is the final film of Akerman’s filmography. In this episode, we thread the throughline across Akerman’s career in comparing both films, see the influence of structural and slow cinema, and marvel at her capacity for personal artmaking.

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Celine Sciamma on Chantal Akerman

I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (No Home Movie BTS footage)

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

05:32 Plot summaries and Reactions

17:15 2015 critical reactions to No Home Movie

21:00 Structural films and emotional responses

27:07 Power of the cut

33:41 Akerman and her mother

40:33 Comparing Akerman with Varda

44:36 Private artmaking

48:33 Akerman's career arc

52:13 Preview for next eps

It’s about time. We tackle Chantal Akerman’s Sight and Sound topping Jeanne Dielman, and begin our series on her singular career. Ben introduces Akerman’s career, spotlighting her fierce conviction and crystalline vision, Eli loops in a melodramatic reading, and Wilson zeroes in on an ending that explosively caps off a 3.5h opus. And if you’re struggling with how to approach this film, as entertainment or as art, just remember: it’s about time.

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Behinds the scenes of Jeanne Dielman

Slant magazine interview

Article on Akerman

Wilson’s Letterboxd review

Stephen Gillespie’s Letterboxd review

Angelica Jade Bastien on Longlegs

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:03 General reactions

00:13:26 The S&S list

00:16:24 Akerman's career

00:23:45 Plot summary and structure

00:29:20 Cinematography and spatial representation

00:32:14 Depictions of women and melodrama

00:34:35 How Akerman directs Seyrig

00:37:53 Everything is "real"

00:39:10 Time

00:42:14 Patterning

00:46:40 What triggers the breakdown

00:50:16 Relationship between mother/son

00:57:18 Rituals

00:59:24 The movie exists as many things

01:00:25 It's place as #1 film

01:04:10 Akerman's conviction and vision

01:07:43 Scene dissections

01:13:04 Exterior scenes

01:16:47 Existential crisis

01:19:12 In conversation with cinema and larger culture

01:21:56 Ending

01:30:36 Outro