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3. Spoon: “I turn on the camera”
“Challengers” moves so vertiginously from the recent past to the present that sometimes musical clues are the easiest way to remember whether it’s 2006 or 2019. This Spoon track from the 2005 album “Gimme Fiction” offers a bit of a time-lapse feel. This song, played against the backdrop of scenes from the 2006 US Open Junior Championships, evokes millennial nostalgia. Guadagnino sure loves persistent bass lines!
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4. Psychedelic Fur: “Love My Way”
“Call Me by Your Name” takes us back to the early 1980s with another piece of diegetic pop rock as Psychedelic Furs hits fill the dance floors of Italian clubs. Timothée Chalamet's Elio initially takes the scene from the sidelines, his gaze focused on the still secret object of his affections, the older, clumsy but passionately dancing graduate student Oliver.
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5. Thom Yorke: “Sigh”
Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke created the brooding score for Guadagnino's remake of the 2018 horror classic “Suspiria,” his first work as a film composer. This haunting, hypnotic waltz plays over the film's opening credits and effectively sets the mood.
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6. John Adams: “Century Rolls: I. First Movement (Excerpt)”
Guadagnino wrote the script for the 2009 romantic drama “I Am Love,” starring Tilda Swinton, with the music of American minimalist composer John Adams in mind. Although Adams did not compose original music for the film, he allowed Guadagnino to use many of his most famous works for the soundtrack, adding a distinct and poignant emotional tone to “I Am Love.”
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7. Sufjan Stevens: “The Mystery of Love”
One of two beautiful ballads singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens wrote for “Call Me by Your Name,” this quiet, mandolin-kissed track was nominated for a Best Original Song Oscar. The other, “Visions of Gideon,” plays over painful and haunting closing credits and features long takes tightly framing Elio's face as he goes through a series of emotions. (I am yet It's a shame that Chalamet didn't win the Best Actor Oscar for that performance.)
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8. Kiss: “Lick me.”
In Guadagnino's gritty 2022 film “Bones and All,” when two young cannibals enter an abandoned house, Lee, played by Chalamet, is delighted to discover a special record in the homeowner's collection. “He has ‘Lick It Up’ by Kiss! “I stopped wearing makeup from then on.” He put it on the turntable and shook it. of lecture This might be the favorite kissing song of bloodthirsty cannibals!