Someone Else's Movie

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Someone Else's Movie episodes

March 31 Jeremiah Kipp on Phantasm
Now that his new creeper The Mortuary Assistant is streaming on Shudder, director Jeremiah Kipp ventures into the sinister funeral home of Don Coscarelli’s midnight horror classic Phantasm. Your genial host Norm Wilner isn’t worried about those silver spheres at all.

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59 min
March 24 Anita Doron on Goodbye, Dragon Inn
With her new drama Maya and Samar now in theaters across Canada, director Anita Doron invites us to fall under the spell of Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, about the last screening at a grand old Taipei movie house. Your genial host Norm Wilner takes this one very personally.

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42 min
March 17 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on Ms 45
It’s our 11th anniversary, and critic and author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas – whose 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror is now a documentary, and streaming on Shudder this Friday – is here to discuss Abel Ferrara and Zoe Tamerlis Lund’s unforgettable Ms. 45, which rewrote the rules of the rape-revenge thriller. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been looking forward to this one for a while.

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50 min
March 14 Alison McAlpine on Toni Erdmann
The Oscars are tomorrow night, and Montreal filmmaker Alison McAlpine will be there with perfectly a strangeness, which is nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. But first, she wanted to talk about Maren Ade’s epic father-daughter dramedy Toni Erdmann. Your genial host Norm Wilner put his false teeth aside for this one.

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44 min
March 10 Jon Blair on Night of the Living Dead
It’s kind of weird that no one’s brought George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead onto the show in eleven years, right? Writer, actor and comedian Jon Blair thought so too, so in advance of premiering A Comedy Show at the End of the World at TO Sketchfest on Friday, he’s here to really sink his teeth into the zombie picture that changed movies forever. Your genial host Norm Wilner can't wait.

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1 hr 16 min
March 03 Tiyawnda on The Silence of the Lambs
Before her new show One Butthole After Another premieres at TO Sketchfest, Toronto comic Tiyawnda stops in to talk about her fervent love for Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning horror procedural The Silence of the Lambs, starting with her first, entirely inappropriate experience of it. Your genial host Norm Wilner promises there is not a single Chianti joke in this entire episode.

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1 hr 1 min
February 24 Sophie Hyde on All of Us Strangers
With her semiautobiographical family study Jimpa rolling through theaters in the US and Canada, writer-director Sophie Hyde is here to plumb the depths of Andrew Haigh’s moody masterpiece All of Us Strangers. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been hoping someone would pick this one.

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52 min
February 17 Paris Barclay on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
With his new documentary Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It opening in New York on Friday, veteran director Paris Barclay is here to unpack Stanley Kramer’s 1967 hot-button love story Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – a picture he knows inside and out. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to take it in.

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36 min
February 10 Joan Chen on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Actor and filmmaker Joan Chen has been racking up awards for her performance in Xiaodan He’s Montreal, My Beautiful; now that it’s opening across Canada on Friday, February 13th, she’s here to talk about how much she loves Julian Schnabel’s 2007 drama The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Your genial host Norm Wilner regrets that we only had half an hour for this one.

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35 min
February 03 Blake Winston Rice on Hamnet
Writer-director Blake Winston Rice – whose latest short film Disc is playing this week in the Clemont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – is so enraptured by Chloe Zhao’s swooning historical drama Hamnet that he had to bring it onto the show. Your genial host Norm Wilner can see how that could happen.

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44 min

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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. …