Yahoo Lifestyle American Cinematheque’s Timothée Chalamet Career Retrospective Sells Out in Record Time, Andrew Garfield and Cameron Crowe Join as Moderators (EXCLUSIVE)
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.”
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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. 11. The Bob Dylan biopic has been a holiday box office hit since opening on Christmas, while earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz for Chalamet’s portrayal of the singer and songwriter. Crowe, a former music journalist, memorably examined the world of rock and roll with 2000’s “Almost Famous.”
Crowe and Garfield join previously announced guests such as Calah Lane, who co-starred in “Wonka,” “Dune” filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, and Julia Hart, the director of one of Chalamet’s earliest films, “Miss Stevens.” The career retrospective also includes “The King,” a medieval epic with Chalamet as a young Henry V that will screen on Jan. 4, and “Beautiful Boy,” which featured the actor as a young man struggling with addiction and will be shown on Jan. 6. The event will kick off with the Jan. 3 screening of “Miss Stevens.” “Dune: Part Two” will be shown on Jan. 10 at the DGA and “Wonka” will screen on Jan. 5. Chalamet will not appear at the screenings for “The King,” “Beautiful Boy,” and “Miss Stevens,” but he will be at the showings of “A Complete Unknown,” “Dune” Part Two,” and the Guadagnino double bill.
Davis thinks that the demand for tickets has been so intense because of the reaction to Chalamet’s recent press tour for “A Complete Unknown.” It’s a rollout that saw the actor sit down with musicians like Nardwuar and podcasters such as Theo Von, as well as pop up on “College GameDay” to flaunt his sports knowledge. It’s been a master class in film promotion, one that has resonated across a fractured and changing media landscape.
“All of these appearances and interviews have shown his personality and they’ve made people even more interested in him,” Davis says. “People want to see what he’ll say or do next.”
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