Someone Else's Movie

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FILM INTERVIEWS
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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.

6 DAYS AGO

Jeremy Schuetze on American Movie

This week, actor and filmmaker Jeremy Schuetze – whose first feature Anacoreta is now available on digital and on demand – digs into American Movie, Chris Smith’s beloved documentary about Wisconsin auteur Mark Borchardt’s attempts to make a horror short with the help of his eccentric friends and family. Your genial host Norm Wilner sees more of himself in this movie than he’d probably want to admit.

44 min
18 FEB

Moritz Binder on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This week, Moritz Binder – the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of September 5 – joins us to celebrate Sergio Leone’s landmark Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, from the magnificently sweaty cast to the sun-blasted locations to Ennio Morricone’s iconic score. Your genial host Norm Wilner is still a Tuco guy, despite everything.

46 min
11 FEB

Jacob Anderson on Hot Rod

He broods magnificently in HBO’s Interview with the Vampire, but actor Jacob Anderson shows his looser side in Alice Lowe’s romantic comedy Timestalker, landing in US theaters and on demand this Valentine’s Day. And he’s here to share the gospel of Hot Rod, the 2007 comedy that brought Andy Samberg and his pals in The Lonely Island to the big screen a bit before the big screen was ready for them. Your genial host Norm Wilner, though? He was ready.

58 min
4 FEB

Anna Catley on Velvet Goldmine

As Sook-Yin Lee’s dramedy Paying for It rolls into Canadian theaters, the film’s editor Anna Catley – whose other credits include Things I Do for Money and We Forgot to Break Up – stops in to talk about the allure of Todd Haynes’ glam-rock reverie Velvet Goldmine, which introduced her to new methods of storytelling at exactly the right point in her creative development. Your genial host Norm Wilner was shocked to realize he still hasn’t seen the original cut of this one.

1h 6m
28 JAN

Lowell Dean on Superman The Movie

Writer-director Lowell Dean has two movies coming out this year; the first, Dark Match, hits Canadian theatres and lands on Shudder in the US this Friday, January 31st. And to celebrate its arrival, he’s here to talk about Richard Donner’s 1978 blockbuster Superman: The Movie -- which defined superhero cinema, made instant stars out of Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder, and got a generation to believe a man can fly. Your genial host Norm Wilner always knew, of course.

1h 5m
21 JAN

Flashback - Rick Roberts on Eraserhead

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 right about now, you know?

56 min
14 JAN

Jack Clark and Jim Weir on High and Low

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 company is derailed when a kidnapper mistakenly abducts his chauffeur’s son. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been waiting so long for someone to pick a Kurosawa movie, you have no idea.

59 min
7 JAN

José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço on Wayne's World

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 to kick off 2025 riding shotgun in the Mirthmobile.

52 min

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06/12/2017

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The host is always insightful and it feels like a good conversation, never forced. Highly recommend.

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.