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The Cineskinny is the film review podcast from The Skinny – on this week's episode, Jamie, Ellie and Anahit discuss The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, the Charli xcx-led Erupcja and films that portray cities as their own character

Article by The Skinny | 03 Feb 2022

The Cineskinny is the film podcast from some of the team behind The Skinny – every fortnight we take some kind of look at the wide world of The Movies. We're talking classic films, brand-new films, film festivals, the politics of film, arthouse thinkers *and* action bangers with loads of explosions.

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Charlie xcx is a great pop star, but is she any good as an actor? We find out by watching her as the lead in Erupcja, the new low-key relationship drama from director Pete Ohs.

In honour of Erupcja, which makes great, lyrical use of its setting of Warsaw, Poland, we consider some of the other films in which the cities they are set in feel like characters in their own right.

We also take a look at The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, a dark comedy starring Peter Mullan as a tour guide who begins to lose the line between history and fantasy when a TV production comes to town.

TIMESTAMPS:

What We’ve Been Watching: Star Wars: The Despecialised Edition; Titanic; Obsession (01:02)
Erupcja review (15:13)
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford review (28:06)
The team discuss "the films in which the city they're in set feels like a character" (39:50)

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The Cineskinny team

The Cineskinny is hosted by a selection of The Skinny’s finest film folk:

Jamie Dunn, our Film Editor, who you may also have heard on BBC Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show, or read in Sight & Sound, IndieWire or The Guardian.

Anahit Behrooz, our Listings, Heads Up and Zap Editor, and a regular contributor to our Film section. Anahit’s film writing has also featured in The Quietus, Girls on Tops, One Room With A View and Little White Lies.

Peter Simpson, our Deputy Editor. Big film fan, lots of enthusiasm and energy, and also responsible for the magazine’s Food and Drink pages if that helps at all.

Ellie Robertson, Editorial Assistant, regular film and music writer for the mag, with a really good range of shoes.