Daniel Craig, Luca Guadagnino, Drew Starkey, Justin Kuritzkes, and More on Queer | NYFF62

Director Luca Guadagnino, screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, costume designer Jonathan Anderson, and cast members Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey discuss Queer, the Spotlight Gala of the 62nd New York Film Festival, with NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim. Learn more: www.filmlinc.o...
Written in the early 1950s yet not published until 1985, William S. Burroughs’s Queer has come to be considered a canonical work in the career of the Beat Generation author and a cornerstone of transgressive gay literature. In his wildly ambitious adaptation, Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, NYFF55) expertly evokes the book’s post-World War II time period and cinematically translates Burroughs’s iconoclasm with panache. In a transformative role, Daniel Craig immerses himself into Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, a habitual heroin user luxuriating in freedom and desiccation among a disconnected group of gay American expatriates in Mexico City in the late 1940s. When enigmatic, preppy ex-military kid Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey) catches Lee’s eye, he swoons into a headlong love affair, commencing an odyssey that will take them all the way to the Ecuadorian jungle in pursuit of the ultimate high. Buoyed by go-for-broke performances from Craig and Starkey, and rollicking, unexpected supporting turns from Lesley Manville and Jason Schwartzman, Queer is a dazzling showcase for many in Guadagnino’s stable of collaborators, including Challengers screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes, cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, and music composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It’s a film that finds Guadagnino in his most formidable, gutsiest mode yet, a universal love story featuring expressionistic flights of fancy, gratifying moments of psychedelic surrealism, and surprising tenderness. An A24 release.
Queer opens in theaters on November 27, courtesy of A24.
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[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Unlike a lot of authors who are very territorial about their books being adapted, Bill Burroughs always had a lifelong love for cinema, and was relatively responsive to the process of adaptation. I'm sure he would have given Queer a fair viewing.

[@hatsumomo5067]

I deeply DEEPLY loved this film. Can't wait to watch again soon

[@an-qo6by]

why is no one talking about drew starkey being casted in this? THANK YOU LUCA. It's like Timothee chalamet. I just really think drew is a great actor. he reminds me of shia labeouf in his acting style, at times. So so good

[@gleenyc]

They do. It starts at 10:53.

[@cineserendipity]

Can't wait to watch this movie!

[@tanjaslisuric7610]

I can't wait this movie.....

[@antoinepetrov]

Omg the potion seller is back

[@Ryusevi]

I really wanna know what Daniel Craig was looking at the first like seven minutes. Loved this film

[@TheQuiet_Ones]

love!