LWLies 71: The Call Me by Your Name issue

Okay, so we realise that there’s still a good chunk of 2017 left, but we’re call­ing it right here and now: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name is the year’s best film. We sim­ply can’t imag­ine any­thing top­ping this immac­u­late adap­ta­tion of André Aciman’s 2007 nov­el of the same name, with Armie Ham­mer and Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­mat hang­ing out, relax­ing and flirt­ing in the sun-blushed climes of north­ern Italy.

For our lat­est print edi­tion, we spoke to the peo­ple who helped bring this won­drous roman­tic tale to life on the big screen, and com­mis­sioned Madrid-based artist Luis Mazón to cre­ate a pas­tel-coloured cov­er which cap­tures the dis­tinct tone and spir­it of the film.

In this issue…

Invis­i­ble Touch
A con­ver­sa­tion with Call Me By Your Name direc­tor Luca Guadagni­no about how to cap­ture love on film. By David Jenkins

Love My Way
Call Me By Your Name stars Armie Ham­mer and Tim­o­th­ée Cha­la­met dis­cuss life and love, while we meet up-and-com­ing French actor Esther Gar­rel. By Adam Wood­ward and David Jenkins

First Love
Twelve tall tales of for­ma­tive movie love from a selec­tion of cinephiles.

Eat a Peach
How fruit and sex have over­lapped and inter­min­gled through­out the his­to­ry of art, lit­er­a­ture and cul­ture. By Cather­ine Ellis

Threads #3
Men’s swim­ming trunks are placed under the micro­scope in our col­umn about fash­ion and film. By Christi­na Newland

Extra Assign­ments
Three short movie appre­ci­a­tions of A Room With a View, A Nos Amours and A Day in the Coun­try, each intend­ed as vita sup­ple­men­tary view­ing for our cov­er film.

In the back sec­tion Jane Gold­man talks about her intri­cate writ­ing process ahead of the release of Kings­man: The Gold­en Cir­cle and The Lime­house Golem; Andy Serkis talks up his beau­ti­ful direc­to­r­i­al debut, Breathe, star­ring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy; Eliza Hittman pre­views her Brook­lyn-set gay com­ing-of-age dra­ma Beach Rats; and Emi­ly Beecham dis­cuss­es her break­through role in Peter Mack­ie Burns’ Daphne.

Plus…

Filles de Belle
Belle de Jour is 50 years old this year, and so Car­o­line Golum recounts the joys of this sala­cious classic.

Shud­ders of Plea­sure
In praise of Clive Bark­er and the movie he’ll always like­ly be remem­bered for, the S&M‑flavoured sub­ur­ban gore aria, Hell­rais­er. By Nick Pinkerton

LWLies 71 is on gen­er­al sale Thurs­day 7 Sep­tem­ber. Sub­scribers will start receiv­ing their copies from 4 Sep­tem­ber. Join the club at lwlies​.imbm​sub​scrip​tions​.com