Luca Guadagnino is a treasured specimen in the current landscape of arthouse cinema. He is one of the increasingly rare filmmakers capable of distilling the very essence of unconsummated desire into a palpable tension before bodies have even touched, as seen in his evocative film ‘Call Me by Your Name’. Even rarer, though—and arguably more valuable—is the auteur’s penchant for energetic expression behind the camera that complements, rather than superseding, the subtleties of his chosen material, a trait exemplified in the hauntingly beautiful ‘Suspiria’. Uncommon is the Guadagnino film in which he’s actually taken part in shaping the screenplay, and yet his fingerprints lie on every single one of his projects, for better or worse, including the poignant ‘Bones and All’. At a moment when Italian cinema has relinquished its dominant grip on the art cinema scene, Guadagnino remains a bastion of his nation’s great storytellers. He wholeheartedly embraces the transnational realities of Western cinema today rather than pretending they don’t exist. From Milan to Maryland, Guadagnino’s footprint has touched many corners of the Western world, and his films all reflect this diversity of vision.

In honor of the release of “Challengers,” here are all of Luca Guadagnino’s films, ranked from worst to best:
www.highonfilms.com/all-luca-guadagnino-movies-ranked/