Someone Else's Movie
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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This week, Sharp Corner writer-director Jason Buxton steps up for the aching sadness of The Ice Storm, Ang Lee’s all-star 1997 adaptation of Rick Moody’s novel about parents and children struggling with the cultural upheavals of Nixon’s America over the 1973 Thanksgiving weekend. Your genial host Norm Wilner was five a
This week, writer-directors Austin Andrews and Andrew Holmes – whose new film The Island Between Tides is playing at the Carlton Cinemas in Toronto and the Mayfair in Ottawa through May 1st – are here to talk about their fascination with The Sixth Sense, and how M. Night Shyamalan’s 1999 breakthrough is still a great p
This week, editor Sam Rice-Edwards – who cut and co-directed the new documentary One to One: John & Yoko, in theaters now – unpacks the entangled structure and mounting dread of Don’t Look Now, Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 masterwork starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as an English couple, haunted by the loss of a ch
Ten years after writer-director Ingrid Veninger brought A Woman Under the Influence to the podcast, she’s back with a new movie - Crocodile Eyes, screening this Thursday at Vancouver’s VIFF Centre for Canadian Film Week - and talking about Inland Empire, David Lynch’s three-hour 2006 digital experiment with Laura Dern
With his stranger-than-fiction drama The Luckiest Man in America now in theaters across North America, director Samir Oliveros is here to celebrate a film most of you won’t have seen: Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul, a magic-realist tale of two Hungarian slaughterhouse workers connected by inexplicable circumstances.
With her first feature Bob Trevino Likes It now in theaters across North America, writer-director Tracie Laymon is here to discuss Tim Burton’s 1990 suburban fable Edward Scissorhands, and how its earnest weirdness went straight to her heart. Your genial host Norm Wilner had forgotten how much he still loves this one.
