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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

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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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00:48:57

Katie Boland on Stories We Tell

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/10/18

With her first feature We're All In This Together now playing in Toronto and Vancouver, actor, filmmaker and friend of the show Katie Boland -- whose episode on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one worth chasing down, by the way -- returns to explore the exquisite structure and shattering truths of Sarah Polley's 2012 documentary Stories We Tell. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been waiting forever for this one. (Also, Sarah's a friend of the show too and you can find her episode, on

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00:23:44

Charlotte Le Bon on Call Me By Your Name

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/10/11

Actor (Mood Indigo, The Hundred-Foot Journey, The Walk, Fresh) turned filmmaker (Falcon Lake) Charlotte Le Bon celebrates the Canadian theatrical release of her charmingly creepy coming-of-age romance this Friday, October 14th, by praising one of its inspirations: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, the sun-dappled European romance that cemented Timothee Chalamet's stardom and should have won Michael Stuhlbarg an Oscar -- or at least gotten him nominated for one. Your genial host Norm Wilner

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00:51:49

Deco Dawson on Mon Oncle

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/10/04

Winnipeg filmmaker Deco Dawson, whose first feature Diaspora premieres this Saturday, October 8th, at 7:30 pm in Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema, steps up for Jacques Tati's charming 1958 comedy Mon Oncle, the one where Tati's befuddled M. Hulot ventures from his ramshackle Paris neighborhood to stay with his upwardly mobile sister and her family in a modernized suburb. Your genial host Norm Wilner has fond memories of the fish fountain.

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00:55:04

Joris Jarsky on Moonstruck

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/09/27

Actor Joris Jarsky (Wynonna Earp, Saw V, Bad Blood and dozens of other credits), who's now on-screen opposite Thandiwe Newton in Julian Higgins' thrillerGod's Country, reveals himself to be a closet romantic with his love for Norman Jewison's beloved 1987 comedy Moonstruck -- you know, the one where Nicolas Cage takes Cher to the opera and Olivia Dukakis flirts with John Mahoney. Your genial host Norm Wilner can't wait to tell John Patrick Shanley about this one.

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00:36:54

Julian Higgins on Loveless

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/09/20

Filmmaker Julian Higgins, whose latest feature God’s Country stars Thandiwe Newton as a retired academic drawn into a confrontation with trespassers on her remote Montana property, delves into the darkness of Andrei Zvyagintsev’s 2017 drama Loveless – and Zvyagintsev’s cinema as a whole. Your genial host Norm Wilner will be chatting with Julian and co-star Joris Jarsky after the 7:15pm screening of God's Country this Friday, September 23rd, at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Just putting that out

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01:00:35

Flashback -- Chandler Levack on Can't Hardly Wait

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/09/13

In 2015, emerging filmmaker Chandler Levack joined your genial host Norm Wilner to talk about her love for Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont’s 1998 coming-of-age film Can’t Hardly Wait. Seven years later, Chandler's first feature I Like Movies is making its world premiere at TIFF -- and Norm has joined the festival as a programmer. Enjoy the flashback -- and if you want to see I Like Movies, it's screening again at 6:30 pm Wednesday September 14th at the TIFF Bell Lightbox 3, and at 9:45 pm Friday

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00:48:00

Sophie Jarvis on Another Year

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/09/09

It's a special TIFF bonus episode, and Vancouver filmmaker Sophie Jarvis -- whose unnerving first feature Until Branches Bend makes its world premiere this Saturday, September 10th, at 8 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 -- is here to discuss Another Year, the 2010 Mike Leigh dramedy starring Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen as an unassuming English couple who are always inviting friends and family to come out for a meal or a chat, and escape their miserable lives for a little bit. Your genial host Norm

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00:39:20

V.T. Nayani on 10 Things I Hate About You

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/09/06

Toronto filmmaker V.T. Nayani, whose first feature This Place premieres at TIFF this Friday (September 9th) at 8:45 pm at the Scotiabank 3 and is available to stream in the Festival @ Home digital series next Wednesday September 14th on digital.tiff.net, steps up for 10 Things I Hate About You, the Disney high-school update of The Taming of the Shrew that made Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger into legit heartthrobs -- and kinda made Shakespeare cool again, too. Your genial host Norm Wilner is happy

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00:35:45

Valerie Buhagiar on Ida

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/08/30

Actor and filmmaker Valerie Buhagiar, who broke out in Bruce McDonald’s Roadkill and Highway 61 and went on to direct her own features -- like The Anniversary, It’s Hard to Be Human and her latest, Carmen, which is now playing in theatres across Canada -- tackles the religious and emotional undercurrents of Pawel Pawlikowski's Oscar-winning 2013 drama Ida, which stars Agata Trzebuchowska as a novitiate in early-60s Poland whose life is changed when she learns the secrets of her own past ... and her

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00:56:00

Perry Blackshear on Absentia

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/08/23

Writer-director Perry Blackshear, whose new thriller When I Consume You is now on digital and on demand, reaches back to the darkness of Absentia, the feature that put genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan on track to make Oculus, Ouija: Origin of Evil, Doctor Sleep and all those Netflix projects. Your genial host Norm Wilner just wants to be able to use pedestrian tunnels again someday.

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00:48:07

Jude Klassen on John Waters' Hairspray

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2022/08/16

Actor and filmmaker Jude Klassen, whose new film Stupid for You -- about a teenager who decides to reunite her mother's old punk band to impress a girl -- hits VOD today, is here to celebrate John Waters' 1988 breakthrough Hairspray, the movie about Ricki Lake and Divine accidentally enabling a civil-rights revolution in 1962 Baltimore ... and pissing off Sonny Bono and Debbie Harry in the process. It's a movie about teenage exuberance in the face of grown-up confusion, and also about seeing what

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