Released in 2009, this intimate, sensual, impeccably styled gem starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore swept everyone off their feet, including the most ferocious critics. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival, then in Toronto, his second exploit, Nocturnal Animals, moves up a notch. A super–production in every sense of the word (Focus Features bought the rights for twenty million dollars), with a complex narrative device and another finely honed aesthetic, the film, which is freely adapted from a novel by Austin Wright, wows with a dazzling and diverse cast that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams, Aaron Taylor–Johnson, Michael Shannon, Laura Linney and Armie Hammer. From Los Angeles, where he lives most of the year, Tom Ford accepted the principle of a telephone conversation. Almost an ordeal for the Texan playboy,…