Openly gay Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino first came on to our radar when he directed Desire trilogy, which consists of the films I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), and Call Me by Your Name (2017). The latter introduced the world to Timothée Chalamet, who, like the film itself was nominated for an Academy Award. They may not have won … Continue reading
Way before fashionable (and wealthy) women were clamoring for the somewhat outrageous shoes by Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, and Christian Louboutin there was just one single shoe designer who had laid the way for them. From 1913 onwards Salvatore Ferragamo created shoes first in Holywood, and then later back in Florence Italy, and was the … Continue reading
News today from the Venice Film Festival is that a new doc from queer Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino called Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams has been brought by Sony Pictures Classic. It’s the colorful tale of how Ferragamo an impoverished cobbler from Naples left his home in Italy to go to Hollywood to seek fame and … Continue reading
“We Are Who We Are” the much anticipated drama series from “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino just released it first full trailer. The series stars Jack Dylan Grazer as an introverted 14-year-old named Fraser who moves from New York to an Italian military base with his two mothers, played by Chloë … Continue reading