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PODCAST

Someone Else"s Movie

Norm Wilner/Frequency Podcast Network

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.

tv & film film interviews

All Episodes

00:43:47

Michelle McLeod on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/03/07

With Women Talking heading to the Oscars this Sunday (where it's up for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay) and newly available on Blu-ray and DVD, actor Michelle McLeod puts her driving goggles on to celebrate Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 family musical extravaganza starring Dick Van Dyke and a flying car. Your genial host Norm Wilner still has nightmares about the Child Catcher.

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00:49:15

Emer Reynolds on Arrival

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/02/28

With her first dramatic feature Joyride newly available on digital and on demand across Canada, award-winning editor and documentary filmmaker Emer Reynolds (Cuba Was Here, The Farthest) explores the inner and outer spaces of Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed genre drama Arrival. Your genial host Norm Wilner still can't believe Amy Adams didn't get an Oscar for this one.

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00:57:37

Callie Hernandez on Anatomy of Hell

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/02/21

With her latest film Jethica freshly streaming on Fandor, Callie Hernandez (Blair Witch, La La Land, Under the Silver Lake, Shotgun Wedding) traps us in a room with Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell, the 2004 chamber piece starring Amira Casar and Rocco Siffredi as two people confronting one another's bodies. Your genial host Norm Wilner is braced for provocation.

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00:45:26

Murry Peeters on The Menu

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/02/14

Actor, writer, producer and now director Murry Peeters (See, Transplant, The Parker Andersons / Amelia Parker), whose short film Woman Meets Girl premieres Saturday, February 18th at both the Toronto Black Film Festival and Queer Screen’s 30th Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney, Australia, takes a bite out of The Menu, Mark Mylod's recent satirical thriller about the last dinner service at a very exclusive, very committed fine-dining establishment. Could Ralph Fiennes really build a cult? Is Anya

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00:44:29

Julianna Notten on Aftersun

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/02/07

Toronto filmmaker Julianna Notten, whose first feature Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls is now playing at the Carlton in Toronto and available across Canada on digital and on demand, digs into the ecstatic melancholy of Charlotte Wells’ devastating debut feature Aftersun, in which Frankie Corio and Oscar nominee Paul Mescal play out a father-daughter drama through a tragic film of memory. Your genial host Norm Wilner has his own baggage to unpack on this one.

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00:39:22

Lukas Dhont on Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce,...

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/01/31

Belgian director Lukas Dhont, whose powerful new drama Close was just nominated for the Best International Feature Oscar, celebrates 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. And while your genial host Norm Wilner did tackle Akerman's movie with Wayne Wang back in Episode 306, he's happy to go back in.

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00:30:58

Jesse Eisenberg on Submarine

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/01/24

As he makes his debut as a writer and director with When You Finish Saving the World -- now playing in the US and opening in Canada this Friday, January 27th -- Oscar-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Social Network, Night Moves and many, many more) shares his love for another actor's first feature: Richard Ayoade's 2010 debut Submarine, a coming-of-age tale starring Craig Roberts as a misfit kid in 1980s Wales trying to keep his parents from drifting apart

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00:42:31

Chelsea McMullan on La Cienaga

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/01/17

Documentary filmmaker Chelsea McMullan celebrates the Canadian theatrical release of Ever Deadly, their collaboration with Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, 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.If you're in Toronto, Chelsea and Tanya are appearing at the Hot Docs Cinema with journalist and author Tanya Talaga after the 8 pm screening of

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00:51:24

Karen Knox on The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her...

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/01/10

Actor and filmmaker Karen Knox -- whom you may know from Slo Pitch, Barbelle and Homeschooled, among others, and whose first feature Adult Adoption opens in Toronto this Saturday and in London and Vancouver next week, is here to make a meal of Peter Greenaway's baroque 1989 breakthrough The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, in which Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard play four people whose lives intersect at a very fancy London restaurant, with spectacularly

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00:50:14

Scooter Corkle on Ravenous

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2023/01/03

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 as military rivals in 1840s California who disagree on matters of culinary etiquette. Your genial host Norm Wilner can't wait to dig in.

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00:50:27

Amanda Kramer on Little Shop of Horrors

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/12/27

We need something joyous to close out the year, so here's musician and filmmaker Amanda Kramer (Paris Window, Ladyworld and the gender-bending new comedy Please Baby Please, now available on digital and on demand) to celebrate 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.

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00:35:52

Shayla Brown on Clemency

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/12/20

Actor and soprano Shayla Brown, (Apple TV's See, the Toronto production of George F. Walker’s Orphans for the Czar, and Sarah Polley's Women Talking) tackles the moral complexity and human drama of Chinonye Chukwu's 2019 Clemency, the 2019 drama starring Alfre Woodard as a prison warden cracking under the strain of running a death-row penitentiary. Your genial host Norm Wilner has some feelings about this one too.

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00:42:30

Deepa Mehta on The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/12/13

With her episode "Mr. Song" kicking off the second season of Apple TV+'s Little America, Canadian Screen Award winner and Oscar nominee Deepa Mehta is here to talk about the sun-dappled dread of The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Vittorio Di Sica's 1970 drama about a privileged Jewish famliy living obliviously in Italy as World War II draws near. Your genial host Norm Wilner still gets hives from this one.

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00:43:15

Elegance Bratton on Imitation of Life

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/12/06

Writer-director Elegance Bratton -- whose autobiographical debut The Inspection is in theaters now, and opening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox this Friday -- examines the tangled themes of race, class and belonging in Douglas Sirk's 1959 remake of Imitation of Life, and how they resonate with his own work. Your genial host Norm Wilner prefers Sirk's version too.

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00:40:12

Amanda Brugel on The Shawshank Redemption

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/11/29

With her new drama Ashgrove in theaters and on digital Friday, the invaluable Amanda Brugel -- a veteran of everything from Kim’s Convenience, Workin' Moms and Pretty Hard Cases to The Handmaid’s Tale, Snowpiercer and Orphan Black -- is here to share her love for The Shawshank Redemption, Frank Darabont’s 1994 adaptation of a Stephen King prison story that tanked in theaters but found eternal life at home. Your genial host Norm Wilner still loves the opera scene.

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00:57:58

Faran Moradi on The Dark Knight

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/11/22

Reposted with corrected audio! Writer-director Faran Moradi, whose first feature Tehranto opens in Toronto this Friday, November 25th, is here to declare Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight the best Batman movie -- and a crucial film in his own development as a storyteller. Your genial host Norm Wilner has some stories from the press junket he's been waiting to share.

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00:53:34

Renuka Jeyapalan on The Verdict

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/11/15

With her first feature Stay the Night opening in Toronto and Vancouver on Friday, writer-director Renuka Jeyapalan salutes Paul Newman's greatest screen performance in Sidney Lumet's 1982 drama The Verdict -- the one backed by the David Mamet script, the powerhouse supporting cast and the appropriately grim Boston locations. Your genial host Norm Wilner happens to share this opinion.

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00:45:24

Gail Maurice and Melanie Bray on Jojo Rabbit

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/11/08

With their found-family dramedy Rosie opening across Canada on Friday, writer-director Gail Maurice and star Melanie Bray take a minute to celebrate Jojo Rabbit, Taika Waititi’s Oscar-winning satire of hero worship in Nazi Germany. Your genial host Norm Wilner never had an imaginary friend.

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00:53:52

Flashback - Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead on...

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/11/01

With their new film Something in the Dirt opening in New York and Los Angeles on Friday (and coming to VOD in Canada November 22nd), this feels like the perfect time to go back to 2015, when indie genre masters Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead took time out from launching Spring to celebrate Cameron Crowe's autobiographical 2000 masterwork Almost Famous. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been a little busy this week.

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00:50:46

Kate Hewlett on Lost in Translation

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/10/25

Actor, writer and producer Kate Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis, Degrassi, Murdoch Mysteries and more), who's just adapted her 2008 stage musical The Swearing Jar into a feature film with director Lindsay Mackay, sinks into the beguiling mysteries of Sofia Coppola's 2003 Oscar-winner Lost in Translation, that delicate little drama where Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson forge an unexpected connection in a Tokyo hotel. Your genial host Norm Wilner has never been to Tokyo, by the way.

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