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Queer Girl Film Club springing into action to bring you the latest in queer girl cinema releases? Kind of. We would have had this out last week, but alas, G has become the second member of the pod to get concussion in the last six months!
But the CT scans are done and the results are in: QGFC have the brainpower to talk about Drive Away Dolls (2024), an utterly silly, low brainpower crime romp about two lesbians accidentally driving off with a car laden with incriminating items. And there’s a women’s football team!
Join us as the gang as we discuss necessity and objectification in sex scenes, why having a lesbian wife screenwriter can really improve a man’s queer girl film-making, and whether you should make out with your friends. It’s quite the trip as we also talk rescuing cats, how fake boobs can lead to cinematic discovery, and unexpectedly spoil a minor part of Dune 2.
CN: spoilers (for Drive Away Dolls and Dune 2, weirdly), swearing, discussion of a sexual nature, discussion of non-bloody head injuries.

This week we’re doing one of, if not the, most requested films - Disobedience (2017). We did say it was a Rachel Weiss kind of season, didn’t we?
We’ve got a special guest, Naomi, to give us some helpful insights into Jewish traditions and life for queer Jewish people, although she also eloquently explains how there are many different ways to be Jewish, and Jewish and queer. Honestly, this might be our most insightful episode yet, so thank you Naomi!
There’s also time to have a little lust over Rachel W, to give Rachel A and Alessandro N some love for their great performances, and to talk about some of the differences between the film and the book (everyone’s read the book… except Holly, as usual). Join us as we discuss one of Alice’s favourite film tropes, THAT sex scene (THAT bit, you know the bit, is discussed at around 58:00 minutes if you’re not into it) and we get to the true meaning of this film.
CN: swearing, discussion of a sexual nature, spoilers (film and book).

Tell your friends, there’s a new episode of Queer Girl Film Club! We are talking friendship a lot in this week’s episode as we discuss the Netflix 2020 release, The Half Of It. Only the second film from director/writer Alice Wu (something Holly in particular is outraged by, more Alice Wu films now!), this queer smalltown America take on Cyrano de Bergerac charms the crew.
Listen as we talk about good friendships between queer women and straight men, how religion and friendships affect queer kids in small communities, and (surprisingly) a lot about Ancient Greek writers. Yeah, there’s a lot more Aristophanes in this episode than we expected. Listen as we discuss how to make films from epistolary (letter writing) books, whether the QGFC crew want to be perceived or not, and G oscillates between declaring her word to be gospel and ignorable.
CN: Swearing, spoilers and discussion of a sexual nature (pretty much none of the latter is about the film, sorry, we are chaotic!).

It’s a fractious episode for Queer Girl Film Club this week, be prepared for disagreements, personal attacks and shouting over Fucking Åmål/Show Me Love (1998), a big hit in Sweden which isn’t such a big hit for some of the pod.
Listen as the gang talk telephone etiquette, kissing girls as a dare and whether naturalistic film-making is good or not. We take this gritty lo-fi depiction of slightly shitty teens struggling in a small town apart, and find that Holly is a much more forgiving person than Alice and G. Is it a happy ending or a depressing ending (and are we talking about the film or the episode here?!)?
CN: Discussion of self harm (42:50-47:50), swearing, spoilers.

Merry Christmas listeners, and why not listen to some festive film chat from Queer Girl Film Club! There might be a little disagreement as to whether Rent (2005) is a Christmas film or not, but there’s certainly some snow and singing to be had, and the QGFC gang are keeping up our Christmas traditions, like bringing up those Netflix Vanessa Hudgens films again.
We spend a bit less than 525,600 minutes talking about this big screen adaptation of one of the most successful musicals, especially the film’s queer girls, chaotic bisexual and biphobia lightning rod Maureen, and her on-again off-again power suit lesbian lawyer girlfriend Joanne. We also have some time for the rest of the cast from the good (Collins and Angel, who might be a queer girl or a genderqueer icon, we don’t want to label them) to the baaaaaaaad (poor old Mark and Roger are in for a battering).
We also cover how this film is too earnest to be camp, why the tango is the best song in any musical, and G tries to derail as much as possible to avoid talking about the actual film cos she’s not the biggest fan.

Here’s a link to Lindsay Ellis’s Rent video which gets a mention - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w 

It’s time for Holly’s eighteenth century history podcast! Oh wait, no, this is a Queer Girl Film Club episode about Oscar winning* slice of genius The Favourite (2018). But it does contain quite a bit of Holly talking about the actual history, so we hope that’s to your liking.
There’s also plenty of space for rhapsodising Olivia Colman’s incredible performance, Emma Stone’s complex portrayal, and Rachel Weisz in THAT SHOOTING OUTFIT. There’s even some self-censoring from G, who doesn’t tell us exactly what she thinks about Rachel Weisz but you get the picture.
Along the way Alice tells us about her favourite seventeenth century poet, Holly debunks a duck race, and we talk costumes, screen time and the joy of watching a queer film where the emphasis isn’t on queer peril.
*This film did not win enough Oscars.
CN: VERY STRONG LANGUAGE (from Chaucer to Rachel Weisz), child and pregnancy loss (45:35-46:42 and 56:05-57:45), discussion of a sexual nature and spoilers.