Director Luca Guadagnino: ‘I was one of those isolated guys who found solace in horror’
The Call Me By Your Name director on his new film about teenage cannibals falling in love, the view that it’s his most personal work, and why Italy is a very scary farce
June 2022
Tom Hanks says he couldn’t play gay role today ‘and rightly so’
The actor has said that neither Philadelphia nor Forrest Gump, for which he won Oscars in the 90s, would be made in a ‘modern realm of authenticity’
October 2021
Timothée Chalamet: how the prince of indie grew into a multiplex star
A role in the sci-fi epic Dune has transformed the young actor into a bona fide leading man – but not one from the old Hollywood mould
November 2020
The show the military couldn't stop: Luca Guadagnino on We Are Who We Are
His new TV series about wild goings-on at an army base near Venice horrified the US Department of Defense. Did it also cost him his relationship? The Call Me By Your Name director reveals all
May 2020
Luca Guadagnino to remake Scarface with Coen brothers script
Call Me By Your Name director to take on long-planned update of classic gangster film
March 2020
The unstoppable rise of nosebleeds in cinema
From demystifying romance in Autumn de Wilde’s Emma to representing another type of period drama, bloody noses on screen aren’t drying up anytime soon
October 2019
Find Me by André Aciman review – an intriguing sequel to Call Me by Your Name
Find Me by André Aciman review – a beautiful conclusion for Elio and Oliver
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
April 2019
Cut! Is this the death of sex in cinema?
The number of films classified 18 for sex has plummeted. We explore how studio pressure, #MeToo nerves and the proliferation of porn created a new puritanism
February 2019
Steve Rose on film
Ben Is Back to Beautiful Boy: why the white male bombs at the box office
The Fashion spring/summer 2019
Call Me By Your Name's Luca Guadagnino on cinema's love affair with fashion
December 2018
Names in the news
Jodie Comer: a Golden Globe snub, but her deadly talents will out
Rebecca Nicholson
Books blog
Sequel rights and wrongs: why some stories should be allowed to end
Laura Waddell
The Guardian Books podcast
Crime and passion with Sara Paretsky and André Aciman – books podcast
André Aciman announces sequel to Call Me By Your Name
September 2018
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
The elusive L in LGBT: where to find the best lesbian films online
Women are not well served in LGBT cinema but two niche networks are attempting to redress the balance
August 2018
Boiling point: why literature loves a long, hot summer
From The Go-Between to Atonement, The Great Gatsby to Call Me by Your Name, novelists have used heatwaves to create tension, erotic charge and moments of possibility – it is a time when ‘all the rules change’
June 2018
How gay cinema is calling on the past to point at a radical future
A wave of quietly revolutionary films are taking a thoughtful and celebratory look at queer identity – and reaping the rewards at the box office
May 2018
'Absolutely kills me': you pick your saddest movie scenes
Our writers picked their peaks of cinematic sadness and you responded with animated elephants, Christmas melancholy and emotional reunions
