Guadagnino’s Ivory Tower: Setting, Intellectualism, and Desire in Call Me by Your Name
Call Me by Your Name could have easily drowned in its own pretension. Italy. Lombardy. Summer. The 1980s. Bright bathing suits and plenty of Italian Europop. Luca Guadagnino’s film takes up residence in an idle northern Italian 17th-century villa and tells the story of Elio Perlman, a precocious seventeen-year-old who ... Read More
Women, Walking
1. As I sell my art and craft for a living—both in markets, street fairs or street festivals, and through galleries or stores—I walk miles. I don’t walk to the markets, of course. I load (rather overload) my car and drive to my destination. Then I carry my stuff (tables, ... Read More