Someone Else's Movie

Updated: 07 Oct 2025 • 530 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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Before he battles his way through the new Deathstalker this Friday, October 10th, action hero Daniel Bernhardt drops in to discuss how the Wachowskis’ action epic The Matrix blew his mind when he first saw in in 1999 – and how he ended up acting in at least one of the sequels. Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t believe

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Writer-director Jules Koostachin, whose new drama Angela’s Shadow premieres on Hollywood Suite today to mark Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is here to talk about how seeing Adrian Lyne’s blockbuster Flashdance as a kid in 1983 inspired her to tell her own stories. Your genial host Norm Wilner broke

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To celebrate the Criterion Collection release of her subversive classic Born in Flames, writer-director Lizzie Borden is here to talk about Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. And yes, Wayne Wang and Lukas Dhont have already discussed Akerman’s feminist masterpiece, but Lizzie has a v

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He’s on Broadway with his best pal Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot and his new movie Adulthood is in theaters today, but somehow actor and filmmaker Alex Winter carved out the time to talk about his abiding love for Los Olvidados, Luis Bunuel’s uncompromising 1951 drama about a child living in poverty in Mexico City.

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Writer-director Sophy Romvari’s first feature Blue Heron has been picking up a lot of momentum on the festival circuit, and in honor of its TIFF screenings this week your genial host Norm Wilner thought you might want to hear her 2018 episode about the interweaving of personal, professional and global concerns in Kirst

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Before his latest (and possibly weirdest) movie F*ck My Son! makes its world premiere in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program on Wednesday, writer-director Todd Rohal wants to discuss George Kuchar’s legendary underground short Hold Me While I’m Naked. Your genial host Norm Wilner never thought this one would come up.

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