Someone Else's Movie

Updated: 21 Jan 2025 • 491 episodes
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SOMEONE ELSE’S MOVIE is just what it says on the label: Each week, an actor, director, screenwriter, critic or industry observer will discuss a film that he or she admires, but had no hand in making. Hosted as genially as possible by Norm Wilner.

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To honor the life of David Lynch, whose death last week left a hole in world cinema, here's an episode from September 2017 featuring actor Rick Roberts on discovering the director’s first feature, the undefinable Eraserhead, and becoming a lifelong fan. Your genial host Norm Wilner just wants to lose himself in art rig

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With their bachelor-party nightmare Birdeater in theaters and on demand in the US and en route to Canada, Australian filmmakers Jack Clark and Jim Weir drop by to share their love for Akira Kurosawa’s relentless 1963 crime drama High and Low, starring Toshiro Mifune as an executive whose scheme to take over his own com

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His delightful first feature Young Werther opens across Canada this Friday, so writer-director José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço is here to kick off the new year by being entirely worthy of Mike Myers’ 1992 blockbuster-slash-breakout Wayne’s World, directed by Penelope Spheeris. Your genial host Norm Wilner is happy

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With his new documentary The Last Republican making its US theatrical premiere at the Film Forum in New York this Friday, writer-director Steve Pink takes a break to dive into the tangled loyalties and murky morals of Luc Besson’s 1990 breakout La Femme Nikita. Your genial host Norm Wilner cannot wait to put 2024 behin

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Have yourself some Hedwig for the holidays, as The People’s Joker writer-director-star Vera Drew drops in to discuss John Cameron Mitchell’s 2001 glam-rock indie Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and the nuclear impact it had on her own artistic journey. Your genial host Norm Wilner is just delighted to be a part of this one.

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With the holidays upon us – and the second season of The Recruit hitting Netflix in the new year – we’re reaching back to 2015 for A Very Kristian Bruun Christmas, in which the Orphan Black and Murdoch Mysteries star hangs out with your genial host Norm Wilner, eating too much fruitcake and talking about the seasonal c

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