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tobiaschive · 10 months

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Tobias is just... he is one of the humblest people I know. He works everyday at trying to be a good person and be a good steward of the power he has in the world and bring richness to other people's lives. He's a beautiful person. So handing him a character who is so... who has decided to live a life that is performative is so unlike Tobias. At least Tobias I think I know. I'm not surprised in retrospect that he gave Fitzjames the benefit of the humanity that he naturally has as a person. By making sure that the performance (of Fitzjames) was not truly at anyone else's expense. It allowed Tobias and the audience to understand, yeah, this is a character full of contradictions. He's very brave in certain situations but seems hesitant in other situations. He is most comfortable being at the center of attention but only when he's not who he truly is. I mean, there are lots of ways that this character is fractured. But I think what Tobias did was so lovely. He took the cues from the scripts and created a character, a version of this hidden, frightened kind of man who's sort of been let down by the real circumstances of his life and built a different life for himself. He made out of this character, the version he can love best. And I think that's why his last episodes are so moving. Because you understand when he does, that he can, that there is something to love in himself. And that he's been avoiding looking at himself directly for so many years, he doesn't know how. And when the circumstances, and Crozier by example, and other things teach him how, he's ready to do it. And I think that's something Tobias brought to this — a readiness for Fitzjames to love himself when the moment came. Which made him, guided him to sort of slightly recalibrate some of the things that were in the script. So smart, these actors... honestly, every one of them. What a joy. @

#tobias menzies #james fitzjames #david kajganich #the terror amc #quotes

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filedio · 1 year

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lee and maren in the bones and all screenplay by david kajganich

#fuck me up #bones and all #bones and all 2022 #luca guadagnino #film #screenplay #taylor russell #timothée chalamet #maren yearly #lee bones and all #lee x maren #david kajganich

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chalamet-chalamet · 1 year

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‘Bones and All’ screenwriter David Kajganich discusses how Timothée Chalamet's generosity impacts the new movie:

“[Timothée] understood that he wasn't the central character of the film, and he decided out of the gate that he would play defense for this film in a way that I find really touching and moving. Actually, the way that he has elevated Taylor [Russell] in the process has been really gratifying to see. I have to remind myself how young Timmy is because he has a real level of emotional maturity and a real level of compassion for the world and for the people he works with. He's just very special in that sense.”

“It felt like he really understood that he was a pivotal part of this film, but that it really the story is about Taylor's character, and the journey she goes on is the journey that the audience has its primary emotional connection to.

-David Kajganich, (Screenrant, Nov .7, 2022)

#timothee chalamet #it’s cool to see how many people value his kindness #taylor russell #david kajganich #screen rant #bones and all #timothée chalamet

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absencesrepetees · 2 years

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the terror (edward berger, tim mielants, sergio mimica-gezzan, 2018)

#the terror #david kajganich #soo hugh #edward berger #tim mielants #sergio mimica-gezzan #florian hoffmeister #kolja brandt #s

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cristalconnors · 1 year

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ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

THE NOMINEES ARE:

BONES AND ALL, screenplay by David Kajganich

MAREN We should feel something. ‘Cause we murder people. We steal their stuff, we move the fuck on, and we ruin lives that we don’t even see…

LEE Come on, why are we talking about it like this? We gotta do this! We have to do it!

MAREN Talking about the future, talking about being a friend to yourself… You don’t have that. This is too much. We got 60, 70 years of this?

CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY, screenplay by Lena Dunham

BIRDY It is in this field I raged, and dreamed, and met Aelis in secret, and cried over uncle George and over the fate I have been able to trick, just a bit. There is the goat barn where I met Perkin when I was but a babe, hiding from Morwenna’s silly slap. And here is where the smell of bread is so strong it makes me want to eat the whole entire world as if it were a mere loaf. And some day I will take my little sisters to the tippy top of the village and say "run, little girls. Lift your skirts and run for everyone to see."

HAPPENING, screenplay by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, and Marcia Romano

DR. RAVINSKY I don’t approve, but I understand your reasons. Being an unwed mother isn’t easy. You’re young, with your whole life ahead of you.

ANNE I’d like a child one day, but not instead of a life. I could hate that kid. I could never love him.

DR. RAVINSKY I wish I could tell you that it worked.

WOMEN TALKING, screenplay by Sarah Polley

AGATA None of us have ever asked the men for anything. Not even for the salt to be passed. Or to take the washing in, or to open a curtain, or to go easy on the small yearlings, or to put your hand on the small of my back while I try again for the 12th or 13th time to push a baby out of my body. Isn’t it interesting that the one and only request we women would have of the men would be for them to leave?

AND THE CRISTAL GOES TO…

AFTER YANG, screenplay by Kogonada

YANG I wish Chinese tea wasn't just about facts for me.

JAKE What do you mean?

YANG I like watching the way you make tea. It's very beautiful. The way the leaves bloom and float and fall. I wish I felt something deeper about tea. I wish I had a real memory of tea in China. Of a place. Of a time. I think this would...

JAKE ...What?

YANG Sorry. I lost my train of thought.

JAKE Are you happy, Yang?

YANG I don't know if that's the question for me.

#2022 Film Awards #Best Adapted Screenplay #After Yang #Kogonada #Bones and All #David Kajganich #Catherine Called Birdy #Lena Dunham #Happening #Audrey Diwan #Anne Berest #Marcia Romano #Women Talking #Sarah Polley

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jonathanbook12 · 1 year

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"I want you to eat me. Bones and all."

"Bones and All" (2022) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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randomluck-ofthe-universe · 1 year

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#david kajganich #luca guadagnino #bones and all #timothée chalamet #taylor russell

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genevieveetguy · 1 year

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- You protected the people that you love. - You don't think I'm a bad person? - All I think is that I love you.

Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino (2022)

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brokehorrorfan · 1 year

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Bones and All will open in New York and Los Angeles on November 18 before expanding nationwide on November 23 via MGM. I’m giving readers in the Boston area the opportunity to see it early - and for free!

Broke Horror Fan is sponsoring an advance screening of Bones and All at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA on Monday, November 14, at 7:30 pm. BBQ will be served before the film!

Click here and follow the instructions to download complimentary passes while supplies last. Seating is first-come, first-served and not guaranteed, so be sure to arrive early!

Based on Camille DeAngelis' 2015 novel, the 2022 cannibal drama reunites Suspiria remake director Luca Guadagnino and writer David Kajganich. Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet star with Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, and Jessica Harper.

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A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter; a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.

#bones and all #luca guadagnino #taylor russell #timothee chalamet #mark rylance #contest #article #michael stuhlbarg #andre holland #chloe sevigny #david gordon green #jessica harper #david kajganich #camille deangelis #suspiria

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degenderates · 7 months

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one thing that's really funny to me about all the analysis and meta over the scene from the terror where fitzjames holds the dress up to his body during the carnival is that when a group of students asked david kajganich, the showrunner, about it, he, a gay man, told us explicitly that there's no underlying subtext about queerness in that scene...it was simply customary for men to dress up as women during silly carnivals like that as a type of comedic performance (and we can see the effects this has had on modern british conceptions of "men in dresses'' centuries later but i digress).

anyway that doesn't mean we can't do queer readings of that scene, especially in light of the intimacy and push and pull of fitzjames' relationship with crozier, but it is really funny that so much of the queer reading of this character centers around that stupid dress when it really was more about the fact that fitzjames felt he had to represent a more masculine picture during the carnival in light of the circumstances, to be strong for his men. then again, this is inherently dealing with ideas of gender, and therefore implicitly, sexuality. so even if kajganich meant nothing by it in a gender-nonconforming way, it still is read as such.

#the terror #david kajganich #james fitzjames #the terror amc #amc the terror #josiah speaks #the terror meta

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adamnagaitisnews · 1 year

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Same

#adam nagaitis #the terror #the terror amc #cornelius hickey #david kajganich #timothee chalamet #bones and all

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tobiaschive · 10 months

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#tobias menzies #james fitzjames #jared harris #david kajganich #the terror amc #bts

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weclassybouquetfun · 1 year

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As YA cannibal love stories go BONES AND ALL is very accessible.

A sweet story about seeking connection amidst eating people. Wasn't that essentially what NBC's HANNIBAL was about?

I attended the Q&A Sunday night with producer Peter Spears, composers Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor, writer David Kajganich, actor Taylor Russell and director Luca Guadagnino on panel.

BITS FROM THE Q&A. NO SPOILERS

What is it about: Taylor Russell (who is sublime in this role) plays Maren a cannibal - excuse me, an eater - who embarks on a road trip where she meets a cast of colourful characters including Lee (Timothee Chalamet).

-Sense the film is set in the Eighties, while waiting for the film to begin they were piping in music of the era and one of the songs they played was The Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way". One of the first things Luca said included, " The possibilities of impossibilities".

The Maestro on crutches.

ON WHY LUCA CAST TAYLOR:

Luca: I was very enamored with her in that movie (the film WAVES). And when I got the script I read the script, I loved the script and I decided to make the movie it took me a few moments to think and then let my unconscious pick the right person (and) it was her.

WHAT WAS TAYLOR'S FIRST REACTION TO THE SCRIPT and TO THE PROJECT

Taylor: I was just excited that Luca knew who I was and asked for a meeting with me which was a FaceTime. As in his words there was a very immediate connection between us. It felt really easy and loving. And then I thought, "Oh, gosh, I get to have a little part in this movie whatever it is it's going to be great - anything to work with him. The exciting thing it was a really big part in one of his movies. So that was my lucky stars. And the vision of Luca. So yeah, from the beginning I was really excited and not scared about the subject matter I just wanted to be in his world.

ON PLAYING AGAINST THE OTHER ACTORS

Taylor: The really exciting thing is at the beginning I started off with Andre (Holland). He was the first ....we didn't shoot chronologically but in terms of my partners throughout the film it was chronological in a sense so I started off with Andre and he kinda eased me in and held my hand, made me feel safe. Then Timmy and then Mark. They're all very different people, of course, but the connective tissue of all of them is that they are very present, spontaneous actors and they're always trying to get the most out of a scene and juice it all out. You never end up feeling like anything is missing at the end; so that's good. I felt like - I mean I'm sitting on this stage now with many wonderful men and I felt at the beginning of shooting that that was how it would feel: I would have all of these supportive totem people near me and that stuck through until today and probably will continue, I hope.

ON FINDING THE SOUND FOR THE SCORE

Trent: We were real excited to work with Luca. When we got the script - first we heard there was interest (in them), we were thrilled. We read a very interesting and tasteful script and we were wondering how Luca would transform that into film. From our very first meeting it was clear that this was a romance - a great and tragic romance and the music needed to support that.

Atticus: (talking about dealing with themes of love and true love and some very untrue, poisonous love and the gore) To do it in a way that felt sinuous and respectful and appropriate.

CHALLENGES WITH MAKING THE FILM

Peter: I'll echo what everyone said here is that when Luca calls and says he's got a project and something exciting brewing you immediately perk up. Him calling me to say he was getting the band back together a bit with working with Timmy again and the chance to get to do that with some new collaborators.

Having read the script and at first thinking, "What is this cannibal love story?", you know, but really being able to dive into it and understanding all the other layers that was there really a testament to work of Theresa Park (producer) who worked on the great script with David who brought this adaptation to a place where we could all jump in and so we did. In the middle of Covid we decided to ...on a dime...go out to the Midwest for too short a time with too little money and on our own, really. We financed it ourselves and putting faith in ourselves to know that we were just going to go make the movie we all believed in and I think that happens so very rarely so we took a chance on ourselves. We battled tornadoes...

David: Cicadas.

Peter: Cicadas. That's right - 17-year cicadas. In making a road movie and having just come off of NOMADLAND we had a fair amount of experience of a road movie but it was a completely new road movie...each one is, I guess, is onto itself with those challenges but it was really an experience of a lifetime to work with this group and see it come to fruition and seeing how people are responding to it. It has been fantastic.

ON WHY LUCA LIKE WORKING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF ACTORS

Luca: Making movies is an opportunity of having a great playground to really play and you meet your friends, then you meet new friends, you invent stories and you create worlds - I think it's great. To really enjoy each other's company...to see great artists come up with ideas and do things is one of the great privileges of my life.

LUCA AS A DIRECTOR

Taylor: I mean this so wholly with my heart...I knew that even if I was going to be terrible in the movie and if I was going to let everyone down that the gift would be that I was on the best film...in the best film school in the world to learn from Luca, to watch him work; to just be directed by him regardless of how...what I turned in. That I would be changed in a way that would change my life internally.

There was so much belief that he had in me and I didn't understand where it was coming from at all. It made me feel really confident. That confidence he instilled in me helped me feel really free when we started working together. Luca is a very strong leader and has a very clear vision but at the same time is really malleable and able to change in every single second of the day and be open to the the ever-evolving flow of life. That's a pretty rare quality because people can get stuck on what they want to do and be very dogmatic and that's not how Luca is. That is why his films are so youthful and wise at the same time. That's the grace of him. That's what I learned.

ON FILMING ON LOCATION in the U.S

Luca: The task that was very important to me was coming from Italy and coming for the first time to shoot a film in America in the Midwest, I was - and we were - ready to immerse ourselves and really see America through a lens that was compassionate and at the same height but not overwhelmed by it...that was my thing because I love this country and I think it's important - in the specifics of this story - we had to find a universe of a balance to involve it.

ON WHAT WAS HER BIGGEST CHALLENGE

Luca: I think there were no difficult scenes for Taylor.

Taylor: (laughing) Nooooo, that's not true. Everything was difficult for me. Everything.

Luca: It doesn't look like it.

Taylor: That's nice. There's that quote - "You only achieve simplicity with enormous effort". I resonate with that very much.

Trent: Ditto for us. Our method is to immerse ourselves as deep as we can into the story and once we pick out what tools we're going to use and what instruments, what cerebral decision-making we need to do then we try to get lost in the emotional core of what the scene needs to say or the film needs to convey through the lens and the guidance of what/how the director wanting to tell that story.

With this one, as I mentioned, a number of things kinda resonated with us: might be the location, might be elements of my own past and relationships but when we finished this film we both realized we crossed the line into an obsession of deeply caring about these characters in a way we haven't experienced in anything else we've worked on. When we finished the film we missed seeing them every day. I just watched the same last hour you did here tonight, but the night before last we saw it for the first time with an audience and we both felt like crying at the end and we have seen it a lot of times. It really struck an emotional core so we try to tap into - the same way as we do when writing a song - how do we emotionally "dress the set" and feel the way we intend for it to. With this film it easy to get into that space...not as easy to get out of it, I found because it's a powerful piece of work.

Peter: I want to add - what's amazing about what Luca does is he calls and says "We're going to make my first movie in America; will you help me?" and sure, you say yes, but what we then said was, "Okay. We'll shoot this in upstate New York and we can just copy all the places out in the Midwest and he says, "Absolutely not. We're going to shoot everywhere that's in the script." He takes us on a trip through our country. He shows us our country in a way I had forgotten about, to be honest. I've seen it over and over again and every time I just...Anyway, thank you for showing us our country, Luca.

David: I remember you (Luca) calling me and saying you were in a Waffle House in West Virginia and I thought, "We're really doing this."

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BOOKS IN THE FILM

David explains that the books were a combo of things in the zeitgeist of the time, but also of books that people would recommend to Maren. All of the titles are intentional.

#bones and all #movie talk #awards season 2022 #luca guadagnino #taylor russell #peter spears #trent reznor #atticus ross #timmy chalamet #timothee chalamet #cmbyn fandom #david kajganich #q and a #bones & all

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