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Belgian director Lukas Dhont, whose powerful new drama Close was just nominated for the Best International Feature Oscar, wanted to celebrate Chantal Akerman's revolutionary Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles being named the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound last year. Your genial host Norm Wilner is happy to go back in.

Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg -- whose first feature as a writer and director, When You Finish Saving the World, is now playing in the US and opening in Canada this Friday, January 27th -- celebrates actor Richard Ayoade's own first feature, the coming-of-age drama Submarine. Your genial host Norm Wilner thinks he can keep up.

Documentary filmmaker Chelsea McMullan celebrates the theatrical release of their Tanya Tagaq documentary collaboration Ever Deadly by diving into the swamp of Lucrecia Martel's 2001 breakout La Cienaga, the class-conscious drama which ushered in the New Argentine Cinema. Your genial host Norm Wilner is prepared to wade in carefully.

Actor and filmmaker Karen Knox, whose first feature Adult Adoption opens in Toronto this Saturday and in London and Vancouver next week, makes a meal of Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, the baroque 1989 drama starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard as four people whose lives intersect at a very fancy London restaurant, with spectacularly tragic results. Your genial host Norm Wilner has a napkin round his neck already.

Happy new year, everybody! Vancouver filmmaker Scooter Corkle, whose new thriller The Friendship Game is available on digital and on demand today, is here to tackle the cannibal chaos of Ravenous, the unique 1999 horror comedy starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle ... and your genial host Norm Wilner can't wait to dig in.

Musician and filmmaker Amanda Kramer -- whose gender-bending new comedy Please Baby Please is now available on digital and on demand -- celebrates the practical magic of Frank Oz and David Geffen’s delightful big-screen adaptation of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s off-Broadway masterpiece Little Shop of Horrors. Your genial host Norm Wilner has always been a secret Seymour.