Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Grand Theft Hamlet and Witches

2024-11-21

Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig team up to adapt William Burroughs in Luca's second film of 2024, Queer, so we talk about that. Elizabeth Sankey draws the line between society's flawed understanding of post-partum mental health and society's flawed understanding of witchcraft in new doc Witches, so we talk about that as well. And Grand Theft Hamlet is *sort of* what it says on the tin, in that it's a late pandemic doc about loneliness, futility, community and aliens in fighter jets. Naturally, we talk about that t...

Luca Guadagnino and Daniel Craig team up to adapt William Burroughs in Luca's second film of 2024, Queer, so we talk about that.

Elizabeth Sankey draws the line between society's flawed understanding of post-partum mental health and society's flawed understanding of witchcraft in new doc Witches, so we talk about that as well.

And Grand Theft Hamlet is *sort of* what it says on the tin, in that it's a late pandemic doc about loneliness, futility, community and aliens in fighter jets. Naturally, we talk about that too.

Gang's all here, throw in a bit of chat about David Lynch and Fran Drescher and baby, you've got an episode of The Cineskinny goin'.

TIMESTAMPS:
What We've Been Watching – The Nanny, Emilia Pérez, Blue Velvet (2:30)
Grand Theft Hamlet review (10:15)
Witches review (25:50)
Queer review (39:35)

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Intro/outro music: Too Cool by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-cool) License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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