Hamnet is the winner of Two After Awards, including Best Actress and Outstanding British Film.

Who are you looking for?

William Shakespeare.

And winner of Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Actress.

Tell me a story.

The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare's greatest masterpiece.

What story would you like?

Something that moves you.

Starring Jesse Buckley and Paul Meskoll, Hamnet is a monumental cinematic experience

and one of the best films ever made.

Hamnet in Cinemas Now.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie The Week podcast,

fitted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Keith Phipps, here with... Genevieve Kosky. And Scott Tobias. Tasha Robinson is absent this week, having disappeared into the New York underworld, possibly never to be seen again. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. so every other, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates

to a current movie.

This week, we've got two depictions of loneliness and spiritual isolation, both written by

the same screenwriter.

Scott, can you tell us about these movies?

Sure.

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