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  Most Anticipated Films of 2024: The Penultimate Chapter (numbers 20-11) aka An Assortment of Carefully Selected Wine Pairings Preluding Tonight's Main Course 20.   Q ueer Director: Luca Guadagnino ( Call Me by Your Name , Bones and All )  Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, and Henry Zaga. In addition to his penchant for sumptuous visuals, his handling of emotional complexity and the depth of unspoken feelings, and the sensuality he effortlessly builds from stories of desire and attraction, Luca Guadagnino is also no stranger to approaching the subject of queerness.  The third film in his self-dubbed "Desire" trilogy, Call Me by Your Name , revolves around the sexual awakening, self-discovery, and heartache of first love concerning its 17-year-old protagonist, and does so with honesty, tenderness, and poetry.  His HBO min-series, We Are Who We Are , explores similar subject matter to  Call Me by Your Name (but to less eff...