His next film, After the Hunt, ought to continue demonstrating that passion. “It’s a very different movie from what I’ve done so far,” Guadagnino says. A colleague recently pointed out its place in his oeuvre: “Three movies in a short span of time—Challengers, Queer, and After the Hunt—and two female-driven stories bookend a love story […]
But at the same time, Burroughs clearly made very intentional choices about what aspects of his life he wasn’t going to include in the William Lee that he constructed for Queer. And his wife is not a part of that vision. The real Burroughs—William S. Burroughs, the man—was in Mexico City with his wife and […]
Daniel Craig said in a recent interview with the U.K.’s Sunday Times that he couldn’t have played his character in Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” while working on James Bond movies. In the film “Queer,” based on the 1985 semi-autobiographical novella of the same name by William S. Burroughs, Craig plays William Lee, an American expat who […]
“If you’re not enjoying my answers, you can just say something,” jokes Caleb Hearon shortly after we hop back on the phone. Due to technical difficulties, the 29-year-old comedian, actor, and podcaster was just cut off mid-sentence while in the throes of recounting his coming-out story. “In high school, in my very small Missouri town, […]
Since the premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” at the Venice Film Festival in September, there has been an intense response from fans and media alike surrounding the revealing love scenes between star Daniel Craig and his on-screen paramour Drew Starkey. When asked about the reactions to the on-screen sex at the Los Angeles premiere of […]
The prize catch of the title isn’t exactly who you might expect in “A Nice Indian Boy,” a romantic comedy that brings a welcome queer angle to that substantial subgenre of love stories tangled up in Indian social mores and cross-generational family politics. In many such films, Naveen (Karan Soni) would be the most desirable […]
The first trailer for Luca Guadignino’s latest film Queer has debuted, showing off Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in the William S. Burroughs adaptation. Based on the novel of the same name and adapted for the screen by Justin Kuritzkes (Challengers), the story follows William Lee (Craig), who finds himself in Mexico City after escaping […]
In director and writer Marco Calvani’s “High Tide,” well-known Brazilian actor Marco Pigossi stars as Lourenco, an immigrant living in Provincetown, the iconic gay getaway in Massachusetts. Suddenly single with his visa about to expire, he meets and falls for Maurice (James Bland), a Black doctor from New York City who is on vacation before […]
