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When Luca Guadagnino came on board as the director of “Call Me by Your Name,” he immediately moved the film from the Italian Riviera – where it was set in André Aciman’s novel – to the town of Crema in Lombardy where he lived. “I don’t understand how you create a story if you don’t start from the principal of figuring it out through the landscape – it’s how a movie has to be made,” said Guadagnino in an interview with IndieWire. “We are all who we are because of the way we behave in a given space.”

Thai cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom had never worked with Guadagnino before, but when he visited the region three years prior to production on “Call My by Your Name,” he could instantly see how the landscape and summer light shaped how the director saw the film.

“I’m from South East Asia and...

Hilary and Haylie Duff are not only siblings but also best friends — and now, it seems, their next generation is following suit.

The sisters talked the relationship between their two kids — Hilary’s son Luca Cruz, 5½, whom she shares with ex-husband Mike Comrie, and Haylie’s 2½-year-old daughter Ryan Ava Erhard, whom she shares with fiancé Matt Rosenberg — at the Words With Friends launch party in West Hollywood, California, on Thursday.

“They really play well together,” Haylie, 32, told People. “One time I had Luca for a sleepover and the two of them were outside running around on a Slip ‘n Slide,...

“Call Me By Your Name” has taken the film world by storm ever since its rapturous Sundance premiere at the start of the year, and audiences will finally be able to check out the romantic drama in theaters next month. There’s a lot to see in Luca Guadagnino’s sensual film, from the gorgeous Italian countryside to that headline-making sex scene involving a peach, but one thing you absolutely won’t see in “Call Me By Your Name” is a penis.

Read More:‘Call Me By Your Name’ First Trailer: Luca Guadagnino Delivers One of the Indie Film Masterpieces of 2017

The contracts for Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet prohibited any full frontal nudity from being featured in the film, much to the dismay of the script’s original writer James Ivory. Ivory was originally attached to “Call Me By Your Name” as the writer and director, but Guadagnino replaced...

The people have spoken and rest assured, Trix will be back to their beloved and artificially neon-colored ways come October.

On Thursday, General Mills announced that it is reintroducing the original version of the kids’ cereal made with artificial ingredients because there was a tall order from customers to take it back to its rainbow hues.

“We heard from many Trix fans that they missed the bright vibrant colors and the nostalgic taste of the classic Trix cereal,” General Mills spokesman Mike Siemienas said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.

Kids and adults alike expressed their distaste after...

After winning the top prize at this year’s Locarno International Film Festival’s Signs of Life sidebar section (a program dedicated to “investigating experimental forms of narration and innovations in film language”), Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’ “Cocote” will next hit Tiff’s similarly ambitious Wavelengths section later this month. Bundled up in a surprisingly staid plot — a man returns home to help bury his father, and family dramas come to a head — is a bold and unnerving drama about personal choice and religious power.

Per the film’s official synopsis, it “is the story of Alberto, an evangelical gardener, returns to his hometown to attend his father’s funeral, killed by an influential man. To mourn the deceased, he is forced to participate in religion celebrations that are contrary to his will and beliefs.”

In our exclusive new trailer, that story is at the fore, but so...

After dealing with the pain of two failed marriages, Audrey Hepburn found lasting love at the perfect time.

At age 49, after her divorces from actor Mel Ferrer and pyschiatrist Andrea Dotti, Hepburn fell for Dutch-born businessman Robert Wolders, who in People’s new cover story about the iconic star’s private world, shares the story of their love and why it lasted, though they never wed.

“We were ready for each other,” Wolders says of their near-instant chemistry. “At the time in our lives that we met, we had both made our mistakes. If chance would have had it that...

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Poldark returns for series three this Sunday. If you’ve never had the pleasure, here’s what you’ve been missing…

Warning: contains spoilers for Poldark series one and two.

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Welcome to eighteenth century Cornwall, land of sumptuous landscapes, confusing personal pronouns and Captain Ross Poldark. The bearer of an ancient name and a tousled mane, Poldark’s the hero around this way. (Well, he is until series two episode seven, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves).

Known variously as Ross, Mr Ross, Mr Ross Sir, Cap’n Poldark, ‘that classless ruffian bringing shame upon his family name’ or ‘ee with t’alluring scar who can blast us tin-mine any time ee choose’, depending on who’s addressing him, Poldark is cut from typical Byronic cloth. He’s a gentleman rebel given to fits of...

Netflix continues to have such a vast array of acquired TV series from around the world that it’s difficult to know what to give a chance. While British shows like “Peaky Blinders” have recognizable faces and don’t require translation, it’s a bit more daunting to commit to a foreign-language series. That requires time and reading before you even know if it’s worth a binge.

Read More: The Best Netflix Foreign Language Shows Worth Reading Subtitles For, Part 1

As part of IndieWire’s ongoing mission to uncover some of the best global series that aren’t getting the attention they deserve, here are some of the best foreign language shows available for streaming on Netflix right now. (For more recommendations, check out Part 1.)

“Atelier”

Premise: Think “Devil Wears Prada” set in the world of Emotion, a boutique lingerie company in Tokyo’s fashionable Ginza district. Mayuko is...

This remake of a pre-Code classic adds amazing European locations, glorious Technicolor and entire armies on the move, yet doesn’t improve on the original. Producer David O. Selznick secured Rock Hudson to play opposite Jennifer Jones, but the chemistry is lacking. Why did the man spend twenty years trying to top Gone With the Wind?

A Farewell to Arms

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Kl Studio Classics

1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 152 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio De Sica, Mercedes McCambridge, Elaine Stritch.

Cinematography: Oswald Morris, Piero Portalupi

Production Designer: Alfred Junge

Art Direction: Mario Garbuglia

Film Editors: John M. Foley, Gerard J. Wilson

Original Music: Mario Nascimbene

Written by Ben Hecht from a play by Laurence Stallings from a novel by Ernest Hemingway

Produced by David O. Selznick

Directed by Charles Vidor

What happens when a major Hollywood producer thinks he has all the answers?...

Warning: The following contains spoilers for Tuesday’s Switched at Birth finale.

Switched at Birth concluded its five-season run on Tuesday in much the same way it started: with a strong sense of family as the Kennish-Vasquez clan laid on their front lawn together, gazing up at a rare comet.

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The final sight of unlikely sisters Bay and Daphne splayed across the grass was meant to evoke the “iconic image” of the show’s early key art, executive producer Lizzy Weiss tells TVLine, adding that she hopes the series finale leaves...

In theaters this weekend is Gore Verbinski’s A Cure For Wellness. In the film, while trapped at a remote wellness center in Switzerland, Dane DeHaan’s character Lockhart crosses paths with a mysterious young woman named Hannah (played by Mia Goth), who undergoes her own awakening the deeper Lockhart delves into the mystery of just what is “the cure.”

At a recent press day for A Cure For Wellness, Daily Dead and several other journalists spoke with Goth discussed the journey that Hannah takes throughout the film, her experiences collaborating with Verbinski on her character, and she also shared some information on the upcoming Suspiria project from director Luca Guadagnino.

Can you take us through Hannah’s journey throughout the film?

Mia Goth: Yeah, that was something I really connected to. I found that I was able to find a lot of parallels between her life and my life.

As the Hollywood guilds lay out their winners, a clear frontrunner has emerged in the Supporting Actor category. We dig into the final five contenders, listed in order of likelihood to win the Oscar:

Mahershala Ali popped out at Telluride and Toronto from Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” (A24) ensemble in the beating-heart role of the Cuban-born drug-dealer who nurtures the young boy “Little.” Ali stood out in part because he was better-known than the film’s other actors, enjoying a breakout year as a swath of projects hit screens.

Dauntingly, he shot three of them at the same time. In New York, he was violent New York gangster Cottonmouth on Marvel’s Netflix series “Luke Cage.” In Baltimore, he continued the fourth (and, voluntarily, his last) season of his Emmy-nominated role as Remy Danton, the slick former communications director for Frank Underwood, in “House of Cards.” And in Miami, on three successive weekends,...

Who is Isabella Stone?

If you stuck around for the promo for The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 13, then you already have a tidbit of an answer and a face behind the name.

But that aside, just who is this character that is attacking Red’s organization? Why is she coming after him? What is the deeper meaning behind it?

It’s the type of name drop that can keep Red sitting down and us viewers eager to find out just what type of character Red is going up against.

Clearly, The Blacklist Season 4 is trying to go somewhere different with respect to Red’s story.

I’m interested to see what his being targeted will mean going forward.

The name drop of Baldur Maggnuson on The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 11 certainly piqued my interests in Red facing off with a new nemesis.

The Blacklist Season 4 Episode 12 revealed he was pretty much a red herring,...

Since January has given us an extra week, we decided to do a special Kickstarter episode! Sometimes there are amazing comic book creators who’s fantastic ideas could use a bit of help from fans in order to get us a finished book. We are featuring two great writers who are starting Kickstarter campaigns to promote their titles. From the LRMOnline family we have Kat Kalamia and Omar Morales writer for “Cruzader: Agent of the Vatican” and Guinness World Record holder for the largest comic book published. Kat is promoting her title “Life Father, Like Daughter” and Omar talks about the “Not Forgotten” anthology he is working on. We then venture into our Top 5 independent comics and finish off with the books for the week!

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Seddok, l’erede di Satana (Atom Age Vampire)

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Terminal Video Italia Srl

1960 / B&W / 1:66 flat letterbox / 103 min. / Street Date June 12, 2011 / available through Amazon.it / Eur 6,64

Starring: Alberto Lupo, Ivo Garrani, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni, Rina Franchetti, Franca Parisi, Roberto Bertea.

Cinematography: Aldo Giordani

Film Editor: Gabrielle Varriale

Makeup Effects: Euclide Santoli

Original Music: Armando Trovajoli

Written by: Gino De Santis, Alberto Bevilacqua, Anton Giulio Majano; story by Piero Monviso

Produced by: Elio Ippolito Mellino (as Mario Fava)

Directed by Anton Giulio Majano

Let me herewith take a break from new discs to review an Italian release from six years ago, a movie that for years we knew only as Atom Age Vampire. Until sporadic late- night TV showings appeared, it existed for us ’60s kids as one or two interesting photos in Famous Monsters magazine. Forry Ackerman steered away from adult films, with the effect that...

The Barefoot Contessa

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Twilight Time

1954 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 130 min. / Street Date December 13, 2016 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store 29.95

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Marius Goring, Rossano Brazzi, Valentina Cortese, Elizabeth Sellars, Warren Stevens, Enzo Staiola, Mari Aldon, Bessie Love.

Cinematography: Jack Cardiff

Original Music: Mario Nascimbene

Written, Produced and Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

As a teenager, many of my first and strongest movie impressions came not from the movies, but from certain critics. I memorized Robin Wood’s analysis before getting a look at Hitchcock’s Psycho. Raymond Durgnat introduced me to Georges Franju and Luis Buñuel, and I first learned to appreciate a number of great movies including The Barefoot Contessa from Richard Corliss, a terrific critic who championed writers over director-auteurs.

The Barefoot Contessa is a classically structured story, in that it could work as a novel; it’s told from several points of view.

Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Mubi is playing General Della Rovere (1959) in the United States September 1 - 30, 2016.For a time, it seemed Roberto Rossellini was ready to leave behind the devastation of World War II, a milieu he as much as anyone helped to indelibly commit to cinematic memory with his Neorealist masterworks. While a traumatized psyche remained in films that followed his trilogy of Rome, Open City (1945), Paisan (1946), and Germany Year Zero (1948), it was revealed via a more subtle manifestation of conflict related angst. Rossellini had moved beyond explicit depictions of the war and its aftermath, even while lingering psychological effects still abound (see his collaborations with Ingrid Bergman). This would change in 1959, with the release of General Della Rovere, Rossellini's first full-fledged wartime film in more than 10 years. While not of the caliber of these earlier titles (not really even in...

Wow!

We're counting down the crazy until The Young and the Restless' 11,000th episode, and nobody is being left behind!

Not only are we being treated to sweet memories from the cast at the beginning of each episode, but the action is pretty much non-stop. We're getting even more new sets, seeing more familiar faces, and we're being promised more big stories to come. Let's dig in!

Did they break the mold when hiring Justin Hartley to play Adam Newman? I'm starting to wonder. The current Adam storyline has a feel of finality about it. Not as in death, but as in he's going away, and we'll not be seeing him for a while. At least not until Hartley is available again to play him.

I could be wrong, and I hope so, because I've really liked this incarnation of Adam. In the right hands, he can be just...

If this was a game of clue, it would go something like this:

Bethany did it in the cheap motel room with the journal pages. But on The Young and the Restless Recap, even if you guessed that's where the evidence would ultimately lead Dylan and Paul, you'd still lose the game.

For the time being, Dylan is the hero of Genoa City. He's the only person in town who cared one ounce about the truth. I'm not talking about the rule of law or Victor's rules or continuing to pursue a case because you want to know if your ex was the culprit.

Dylan was being an honest and true detective the entire way through Adam's case. He didn't want an innocent man to go to prison because a good detective never wants a guilty party to be running the streets.

It's a shame Paul has lost that nagging feeling in his blood,...

There are a lot of strategic moves happening on The Young and the Restless.

Characters are being moved around like pieces on a chessboard. Will new couples be formed or old flames re-ignited? 

Time will tell. Let's take a look at what went down this week on our favorite sudser.

The week started off rough for Philly fans with Phyllis angrily pushing Billy away in the elevator. She's trying with everything she has to convince the both of them she doesn't love Billy. It's utterly unconvincing. Nonetheless, she wonders if he gets what she's trying to say.

By way of response, Billy walks up as closely as possible to say, "Perfectly," while his breath blows a breeze into her hair. Suddenly they are face to face. Cut scene. That's all we get.

Jack and Jill discuss her favorite topic. Billy. Jack is a bit down on her treatment of his...

Well, bugger. It looks like Victor is winning again. 

As The Young and the Restless started this week, Adam was ready to plead guilty. Chelsea even went to Dylan, who desperately wanted to help. Finally.

But it was too little, too late. Chloe had done her damage, Victor was doing whatever he could to get out of that hellhole and that was that.

Chelsea was all over the map. She tried to get help from Dylan, but that was useless.

Nikki was in the room with Victor and refused to leave, so all Dylan got was lies in response to his round of questioning. 

This was directly after Nikki has spent an inordinate amount of time lovingly caressing Victor's face like he was a baby bird who would simply crush under the weight of a normal touch. 

Seriously, I was going to have to climb into the television and start...

Things are still moving forward at a pretty fast pace on The Young and the Restless.

It really feels like they're in the midst of out with the old in with the new, and I like it.

So Ian escapes from the courtroom after Victor committed so much perjury even he couldn't possibly keep track of it all, and Meredith ultimately helped Victor escape police custody in the hospital to save the day.

The police are clowns in Genoa City, aren't they?

At first, Dylan and Paul were all over the place trying to figure out who helped Ian escape. Why Adam and Chelsea admitted to their plan is a mystery, but Adam was already on house arrest (can anybody explain that?), so it didn't really matter.

If Adam left the apartment, it would only be three for three escapes in the week. 

Meredith listened in on the family chats with the Newmans,...

She's beautiful, desired and enjoys a social mobility in the improving Italian economy... but she's also a pawn of cruel materialist values. Stefania Sandrelli personifies a liberated spirit who lives for the moment, but who can't form the relationships we call 'living.' Antonio Pietrangeli and Ettore Scola slip an insightful drama into the young Sandrelli's lineup of comedy roles. I Knew Her Well Blu-ray The Criterion Collection 801 1965 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 115 min. / Io la conoscevo bene / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date February 23, 2016 / 39.95 Starring Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy, Joachim Fuchsberger, Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Ugo Tognazzi, Karin Dor, Franco Nero. Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi Production design Maurizio Chiari Film Editor Franco Fraticelli Original Music Piero Picconi Written by Antonio Pietrangeli, Ruggero Maccari, Etore Scola Produced by Turi Vasile Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

Did a new kind of woman emerge in the 1960s?...

Remember the innocent days when everybody on Mistresses was indulging in steamy sex, icy cocktails and the kind of salacious fun on which the Parents Television Council built its mailing list?

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Now, here we are in the penultimate Season 3 episode, and it’s all plea deals, (possibly/insanely) false confessions, faltering livers (totes unrelated to the aforementioned tippling, thanks very much), relapse revelations and evenings spent Googling Las Vegas air-conditioning magnates.

Quick! Somebody grab Karen’s hooker wig, Joss’ living-room toilet (remember that?), a half-dozen...

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord – and many horror films to boot. Payback has always been a constant theme, whether it’s a sinister spirit avenging murder, or a maniacal parent repaying camp counselors for not watching her handicapped child. The meteoric rise in popularity of video games and personal computers at the turn of the 80’s, married with ancient evil, brought a modern edge to this shopworn trope. A sympathetic tale of comeuppance, Evilspeak (1981) serves up its revenge under the computer screen’s warm glow.

Released by Moreno Films, first in Japan in August of ’81 and February of ’82 in North America, Evilspeak nearly made back its 1,000,000 Us budget opening weekend stateside. A few good reviews trickled in, comparing it favorably to the high school horrorfest Carrie (1976). Regardless of comparisons, it stands as a unique antique of a burgeoning time in technology and a potent payback tale.

Our story begins...

It's safe to say Hilary Duff and Haylie Duff's children are on their way to becoming BFFs. Sure, Haylie just welcomed her daughter Ryan three months ago. And yes, Hilary's son Luca is reaching toddler status at three years old. But in a short amount of time, both sisters have witnessed a bond that is only going to get stronger in time. "He can be really sweet with her," Hilary gushed to E! News when describing her son's relationship with Ryan. "She was crying the other day and he was like, 'Why is she crying mom? Why is she crying?'" Hilary continued, "He got his lovey that is really important to him and he laid it on her and was like, 'There. This...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Falling Skies, UnREAL, Zoo and Suits!

1 | Does Falling Skies’ Pope kinda have a point, that through three years’ worth of battles, the Mason family has barely gotten a scratch on ‘em? Also, yea or nay to Pope’s clean bean? And hey, Falling Skies/Wayward Pines fans, recognize the police station?

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2 | Are The Strain‘s kills becoming as gruesomely creative as The Walking Dead’s?...

Lucha Underground

Alberto El Patron (formerly WWE’s Alberto Del Rio) is making $500,000 a year from Lucha Underground, reports the Wrestling Observer.

That news is amazing considering most of the performers in Lucha Underground have long term contracts where they have low per match deals. Obviously he’s more well paid because of the huge success he had in WWE for the four years he was there when he was largely pushed as a main event level talent.

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The current situation for Lucha Underground is they have taped all their episodes for their first season that will end in August. While a second season isn’t confirmed, it’s likely going to happen and they would start taping later in the summer. The good thing about their schedule is that when they tape shows they only tape for a few days per month, so there’s a lot of time off.

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There was a story that we reported two months ago that WWE was changing the 2015 Royal Rumble to 40 entrants in the match. That was news we got from a show in Philadelphia, which is where the 2015 Rumble is set to take place on January 25. Now there’s a new report from F4WOnline.com saying that we should hold off on that 40 person Rumble idea because WWE is sticking with the traditional 30 entrants for the annual January event.

The original reports of 40 entrants were accurate, but in typical WWE fashion they changed their minds. Apparently WWE wanted to use some Ecw Originals to help the match get to 40 people, but now they’ve changed their mind. They could still find spots for guys like Rob Van Dam and Tommy Dreamer (if he’s not in Tna), but it’s unlikely that there will be much of an Ecw flavor to it.

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As Parks and Recreation prepares to end, The Mindy Project continues to fall in the ratings, and pretty much every other new fall comedy has already been canceled, the network comedy landscape looks bleak past Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Modern Family, and The Big Bang Theory. But hope may have arrived in the form of Cristela, a multicam sitcom airing on Friday nights on ABC. Talk about an unlikely savior- the show comes courtesy of Cristela Alonzo, an experienced standup comedienne who became popular through appearances on late night shows like Conan and @Midnight. The show follows a Mexican-American law student trying to balance to obligations of her new internship with those of her multi-generational family.

While ABC has deservedly made headlines with Black-ish and Shondaland Thursdays, it also picked up Cristela, which is the first American network show starring, created, and written by a Latina. ABC...

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The WWE Elimination Chamber PPV is no longer going to be the annual February PPV event. In its place will be WWE Fast Lane taking place on Februrary 22, 2015 in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s the date listed on WWE’s internal calendar according to PWInsider and is consistent to when WWE usually holds their annual February PPV.

Why the name Fast Lane? No idea. It’s a racing reference. The old Over The Limit PPV had a racing theme to it too. New WWE announcer Arda Ocal has the name Kyle Edwards, which comes from Nascar drivers Kyle Petty and Carl Edwards. Somebody in WWE is a big time racing fan, that’s for sure. They also used the “Fast Lane” name for an app game involving John Cena, so it’s already trademarked.

News of the changae originally came from the MetsFan4Ever Reddit user that has ties...