Queen is Dead Podcast
1) One Banger (or Not?) After Another | Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another #170
We know we're late to the party, but we had to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" and all of the discourse surrounding it, or at least try to.Dhruv is joined by (much to his ...Show More
2) One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
We recorded an episode about our favorite Paul Thomas Anderson films before the theatrical release of his new film, "One Battle After Another," but are only now releasing it post its online release as...Show More
3) BEST of 2025 (SO FAR) - Part 2 | Badass Ravi Kumar & everything else! #168
We're [now] 4 months late to the BEST OF (SO FAR) party because, well, just.The format we've been using for the past two years is as follows: rather than simply listing our favorite films of the year,...Show More
4) Bittersweet Bond: Timothy Dalton days #167
Hello Hello Hello! Bond fan(atics) - Varun, Amartya and Sanjeet get together to discuss Timothy Dalton's interpretation of James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989). Timothy...Show More
5) David Lynch's Lost Highway | The Strange Story (Part 5) #167
Dhruv and Cris meet Devarsi again outside the industrial hellscape of "Eraserhead" -- this time travelling alongside two new (hopefully recurring!) podcast guests, Rushnan and Vani -- on Lynch's "Lost...Show More
6) Indie Indian Cinema Round-Up | Homebound, Sabar Bonda, Humans in the Loop & Jugnuma #166
August and September were the lucky months for some Indian cinephiles who crave an alternate form of cinema (i.e., indie) to the mainstream one they have to endure for the rest of the time in cinemas....Show More
7) BEST of 2025 (SO FAR) - Part 1 | Badass Ravi Kumar & everything else! #165
We're 3 months late to the BEST OF (SO FAR) party because, well, just.The format we've been using for the past two years is as follows: rather than simply listing our favorite films of the year, we ca...Show More
8) The Highs and Lows of Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest #164
Amartya and Dhruv had been desperately waiting for Spike Lee's latest film to release, only because they wanted an excuse to go back and revisit Akira Kurosawa's incredibly influential 1963 classic, "...Show More
9) WORST of 2025 (SO FAR) | Badass Ravi Kumar & 5 more! #163
Long gone are the days when Dhruv and Sanjeet talked about QID not being a platform for ranting about films we hate.What was supposed to merely be a (fun) category addition to our Best of 2025 (So Far...Show More
10) Taiwanese New Wave & The Value of Slow Cinema | Taipei Story | Vive L'Amour | Millennium Mambo #161
In this very special episode, Dhruv welcomes back Prakhar Patidar (previously appeared on the "All We Imagine as Light" ep!) to discuss the Taiwanese New Wave of the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s because,...Show More