Brent Lang Executive Editor Timothée Chalamet hasn’t even turned 30, but that isn’t stopping the American Cinematheque from embarking on a week-long retrospective of the Oscar-nominated actor’s red-hot career. “He’s an extraordinary talent,” says Imani Davis, film programmer at the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. “I can’t think of many other times where we’ve highlighted the work of someone so young, but he’s already done a lot of amazing work and really established himself.” Davis says that tickets for the three screenings that Chalamet will appear at in person sold out nine minutes after they went on sale, a record for the organization. “The demand has been incredible,” she reports.
And it’s not just Chalamet who will be popping up at post-screening Q&A’s. Andrew Garfield will moderate a conversation with Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino on Jan.
9 tied to a double feature of the actor and director’s two collaborations, “Call Me By Your Name” and “Bones and All.” Garfield will star in Guadagnino’s next film “After the Hunt,” so he has first-hand experience working with the Italian auteur.
The screening will be held at Los Feliz 3, one of the Cinematheque’s venues. In addition, Cameron Crowe has signed on to moderate “A Complete Unknown” at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica on Jan.
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