Internationally renowned director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Suspiria) is known for films that dive deeply into characters’ psyches and the dark waters of desire, love, and horror, portraying intimate relationships with vivid, natural ease. Guadagnino attributes this success to the quality of his actors and crew. “When you do a movie, you are not working in a vacuum by yourself… I’m building a world with many collaborators.” Watch Guadagnino’s recent conversation in the Walker Cinema with Scott Foundas, former chief film critic for Variety and now a film acquisitions and development executive at Amazon Studios.
Big-Canvas Dreamer: The Cinematic Vision of Luca Guadagnino
"Each gesture and touch, each wisp of summer breeze, made to feel momentous, indelible, life-changing; the beauty of it all rendered more intense by the fact that we know it will not last." Scott Foundas surveys the verdant cinema of Luca Guadagnino in advance of his on-stage dialogue with the filmmaker on February 1.
Dario Argento’s Suspiria: Darkness, Tears, and Sighs
What makes a cult classic? Scratching beneath the surface of Italian horror master Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977), screening at the Walker Cinema this Halloween, we find hyper-intentional layering of cultural references spanning centuries. From folktales, occult practices, and literature, to cinema and art, Argento mines our collective past to create a narrative that speaks to our deepest fears.
Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria: Desire, Love, and Horror
What is the connection between desire and horror? Throughout his loveliest and his most horrific films—including his 2018 homage to Dario Argento's 1977 cult class, Suspiria—director Luca Guadagnino explores the creative and destructive forces of beauty, desire, motherhood, and sexual power dynamics, highly influenced by his longtime collaboration with artist-muse, Tilda Swinton.
