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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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00:54:47

Nik Sexton on Incendies

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/07/01

It’s Canada Day, so writer-director Nik Sexton – whose new East Coast drama Skeet is heading to the Galway International Film Festival on July 11th – stops in to talk about Incendies, the Oscar-nominated 2010 drama that put Denis Villeneuve on the map. Your genial host Norm Wilner would like you to know he recorded this episode well before Villeneuve landed the Bond gig.

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00:46:06

Arianna Martinez on A Cure for Wellness

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/06/24

With her splendid first feature Do I Know You from Somewhere? arriving on VOD this Friday, New Brunswick director Arianna Martinez steps up for Gore Verbinski’s Gothic creeper A Cure for Wellness – the one with Dane DeHaan and the eels. Your genial host Norm Wilner is willing to hear her out.

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00:59:55

Michael Pierro on The Conversation

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/06/17

With his darkly comic Self Driver now available on digital and on demand, writer-director Michael Pierro is here to celebrate Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterwork The Conversation – and pay tribute to its incredible star, Gene Hackman. Your genial host Norm Wilner has some thoughts about that too.

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00:44:56

Rob Michaels on Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/06/10

Director Rob Michaels – whose charming Canadian culture-clash comedy Please, After You is now available on digital and on demand – is here to share his favorite comedy: Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the 2008 comedy where Jason Segel proved he had the goods to be a romcom leading man. He just had to write it first. Your genial host Norm Wilner also gets to talk about Muppets this week.

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00:28:47

Chloe Robichaud on Cafe de Flore

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/06/03

This week, director Chloe Robichaud – whose charming, spiky new comedy Two Women is now playing in Toronto and Montreal, and expandng to Vancouver on Friday – celebrates Jean-Marc Vallee’s 2011 masterwork Cafe de Flore, in which the late director shuffled and remixed two different love stories in two different time periods like the brilliant DJ he was. Your genial host Norm Wilner got a little choked up on this one.

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00:45:29

Kourtney Roy on District 9

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/05/27

This week, director Kourtney Roy – whose creepy first feature Kryptic is now available on digital and on demand – shares her thoughts on District 9, Neill Blomkamp’s breakout 2009 sci-fi action social satire starring Sharlto Copley as a spineless government functionary who gets dragged into an alien uprising in Johannesburg. Your genial host Norm Wilner is willing to get a little messy on this.

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00:37:52

Daniel Robbins on To Be or Not to Be

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/05/20

This week, director Daniel Robbins – whose new comedy Bad Shabbos is now playing in the US and opening this Thursday in Toronto and Vancouver – steps up for Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be, the pitch-black 1942 farce starring Jack Benny and Carole Lombard as married actors in occupied Warsaw who take on the Nazis … and still manage to get laughs. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been waiting forever talk about this one.

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00:38:50

Keeya King on Lady Bird

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/05/13

This week, actor Keeya King – currently starring in the new thriller Guess Who, on Hollywood Suite in Canada and Tubi in the US – shares her love for Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut Lady Bird, which found comedy and pathos in the everyday drama of Saoirse Ronan’s Sacramento teenager. Your genial host Norm Wilner knows a thing or two about being an obnoxious teen, so this should be fun.

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00:42:49

Jason Buxton on The Ice Storm

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/05/06

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 at the time, so don’t expect any deep insights.

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01:07:59

Austin Andrews and Andrew Holmes on The Sixth Sense

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/04/29

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 picture even after you know the twist. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been saying this forever.

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00:36:31

Sam Rice-Edwards on Don't Look Now

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/04/22

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 child, who encounter something even more awful in Venice. Your genial host Norm Wilner definitely saw this one at too early an age.

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00:50:52

Ingrid Veninger on Inland Empire

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/04/15

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 as “a woman in trouble” that now stands as his last feature. Your genial host Norm Wilner has a great story about this one.

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00:44:08

Samir Oliveros on On Body and Soul

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/04/08

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. Your genial host Norm Wilner never thought he’d have the chance to talk about this one here, so that’s a nice surprise.

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00:48:43

Tracie Laymon on Edward Scissorhands

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/04/01

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.

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01:00:51

Naomi Jaye on Three Colors: Red

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/03/25

With her second feature Darkest Miriam having just kicked off the Canadian Film Fest and opening in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Sudbury on Friday the 28th, with more theatres to come, writer-director Naomi Jaye joins us to celebrate Three Colors: Red, which now stands as Krzysztof Kieślowski’s defining artistic work. Your genial host Norm Wilner is so glad to be diving back into the trilogy a year and a half after M.H. Murray’s episode on Blue.

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00:58:07

Ali Weinstein on Fiddler on the Roof

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/03/18

With her documentary Your Tomorrow streaming across Canada on Friday March 21st and making its broadcast premiere on TVOntario Sunday the 23rd, filmmaker Ali Weinstein picks up the torch for another Norman Jewison musical: His 1971 adaptation of the Broadway smash Fiddler on the Roof. Your genial host Norm Wilner knows the entire songbook for this one.

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01:14:05

Felix-Antoine Duval on Red Rooms

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/03/11

It’s our 10th anniversary! And award-winning actor Felix-Antoine Duval – star of Sophie Deraspe’s wonderful Shepherds, now playing at the TIFF Lightbox and elsewhere – is here to explore the darkest corners of Pascale Plante’s 2023 thriller Red Rooms. Your genial host Norm Wilner is fighting the urge to do the Jeremy Piven thing from Grosse Pointe Blank.

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00:43:32

Atom Egoyan on Jesus Christ Superstar

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/03/04

This week, Oscar-nominated writer and director Atom Egoyan – whose latest drama Seven Veils opens in theatres across Canada this Friday – joins the chorus for Norman Jewison’s 1973 screen adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar … a film, and a musical, with which Atom has a very personal connection. Your genial host Norm Wilner is more of a Little Shop guy, honestly.

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00:44:28

Jeremy Schuetze on American Movie

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/02/25

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.

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00:45:32

Moritz Binder on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Someone Else"s Movie ·

2025/02/18

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.

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