Photo Credit: Warrick Page/SHOWTIME. In Paul Schrader’s 1980 erotic drama feature film “American Gigolo,” Julian Kaye (played by Richard Gere) is a cocky playboy-for-hire who is framed for a ...

Early in the first episode of Showtime’s “American Gigolo,” we get a montage ... crime story overlaid with a glossy sheen from 1980, starring a wardrobe by Giorgio Armani and the guy ...

Paul Schrader’s original 1980 film American Gigolo was very much of its time, a noir film taking place in a world where Studio 54 was still operational, and a story about a male prostitute ...

The latest case is the Showtime series American Gigolo. It’s a sequel to Paul Schrader’s hit 1980 movie, which starred Richard Gere as Julian Kay, a high-end LA escort who gets framed for murder only ...

The obvious theme song for the refashioned “American Gigolo” was written by the Gershwins ... of the series is what we heard in the 1980 feature film—Blondie’s “Call Me,” just ...

Does that continue in the new “American Gigolo?” I remember the stylization of Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton’s wardrobe. Everybody knew the sort of iconic thing about the film was the ...

By Mike Hale Whatever else you thought of Paul Schrader’s 1980 Southern California noir, “American Gigolo,” you couldn’t deny that it nailed its post-disco, pre-Reagan moment: the blurry ...

Donation Options Search Search Search On “American Gigolo,” Jon Bernthal stars as hired escort Julian Kay, the role Richard Gere played in the 1980 movie. SHOWTIME Share “Here were my ...