Someone Else's Movie

This week, Late Fame director Kent Jones marks his film’s home release with a celebration of The Passenger , Michelangelo Antonioni’s fascinatingly opaque 1975 drama starring Jack Nicholson as a lost man who finds purpose in a new identity – for a while, anyway. Your genial host Norm Wilner invites you to ride along. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information abo...

As Late Fame arrives on Blu-ray and VOD, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Samy Burch is here to discuss her love for Fred Schepisi’s 1993 adaptation of John Guare’s award-winning play Six Degrees of Separation , a film that’s sort of fallen through the cracks over the decades. Your genial host Norm Wilner is very glad to have her. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for infor...

With their first feature A Breed Apart launching its theatrical run this Saturday, October 3rd , at Toronto’s Revue Cinema, writer-directors Adam Belanger and David Lafontaine stop by to celebrate Ken Loach’s devastating coming-of-age drama Kes . Your genial host Norm Wilner -- who'll be moderating the post-screening Q&A -- is ready to hit the North. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. S...

With his new Godspell documentary You Had to Be There rolling across North America , Emmy-winning documentarian Nick Davis is here to share the love for another cultural milestone of the early ‘70s: Young Frankenstein , Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s greatest collaboration. Your genial host Norm Wilner is so happy he did. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information...

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Severin Films, co-founder and president David Gregory drops in to talk about one of his favorite recent releases: Delicatessen , Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s charming dystopian comedy about true love and cannibalism. Your genial host Norm Wilner has such fond memories of this one. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for informati...

One more TIFF episode! This one features Quebec writer-director Alexandre Franchi , whose third feature L’Autre makes its world premiere tonight at the festival. And he’s here to talk about the endless allure of Alain Resnais’ avant-garde breakthrough Hiroshima, Mon Amour . Your genial host Norm Wilner had a very similar experience. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for...

With her first documentary feature Still Night, Burning House making its world premiere at TIFF on Saturday, award-winning filmmaker Carol Nguyen stops by to talk about Tampopo , and how one scene from Juzo Itami’s 1985 "ramen western" introduced her to a whole new world of cinema. Your genial host Norm Wilner regrets not eating before recording this episode. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz compa...

Before his challenging new film Nobody’s Violence has its North American premiere at TIFF this Friday, September 11th, Quebecois writer-director Denis Cote is here to ponder the unanswerable questions of Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English-language feature, Blow-Up and maybe reflect on his own auterist perspective a little. Your genial host Norm Wilner is really glad he gets to do this. Hosted...

As she readies her new film Armageddon Road for its Toronto premiere at the Revue Cinema this Thursday and Friday, writer-director Karen Lam pauses to celebrate the power of Martin McDonagh’s first feature In Bruges , in which the Irish auteur first discovered the anti-chemistry of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Your genial host Norm Wilner has a confession to make about this one. Hosted by Si...

Screenwriter, producer and now author Aaron Barnett – whose 30th anniversary novelization of Matthew Bright’s cult thriller Freeway is available this Sunday, August 30th, from Echo On Publications – is here to celebrate Phil Joanou’s State of Grace , a magnificent mob thriller that got steamrolled by Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas in September 1990. Your genial host Norm Wilner has room in his heart...

As his new series American Hostage makes its way towards a world premiere at TIFF, actor, comedian and makeup effects artist Aaron Merke stops in to talk about The Ladykillers – the original 1955 Ealing Studios comedy where Alec Guinness and a crew of wrong’uns plot the perfect heist, only to be foiled by a little old lady. Your genial host Norm Wilner is impressed by how much ground we cover in t...

Her new documentary The Art of Adventure is now available on VOD and streaming on Hollywood Suite in Canada, so filmmaker Alison Reid drops by to share her love for Jon Avnet’s 1991 drama Fried Green Tomatoes . Your genial host Norm Wilner is still trying to figure out why his preview audience rejected it so violently. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information a...

With his aristocratic comedy Savage House now available on digital and on demand, writer-director Peter Glanz is here to venture into the depths of Joel and Ethan Coen’s unquantifiable Hollywood nightmare Barton Fink . Your genial host Norm Wilner is already quite well-acquainted with the life of the mind, thank you. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information abo...

As her first feature A Safe Distance rolls towards its Canadian premiere at Fantasia on Thursday, director Gloria Mercer is here to make sure Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us is held in the same regard as all his other ‘70s classics. Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t really find a flaw in that argument.  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collec...

With his directorial debut The Outer Threat opening across Canada today, veteran producer William Woods steps up for M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable , the follow-up to The Sixth Sense that dared to imagine a different kind of superhero movie. Your genial host Norm Wilner is curious to see where this goes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our coll...

With his eerie Rose of Nevada enthralling audiences across North America, and opening in Toronto, Vancouver and Hamilton this Friday, Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin is here to make the case for John Milius’ Big Wednesday – the personal epic starring Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt and Gary Busey as California surfers – as a lost masterpiece. Your genial host Norm Wilner is curious to see where th...

His new movie Best Boy follows three adult siblings locked in a deeply dysfunctional rivalry with one another, so it makes perfect sense that writer-director Jesse Noah Klein would want to tackle Thomas Vinterberg’s radical Dogme drama The Celebration , aka Festen . Your genial host Norm Wilner guarantees this episode was recorded entirely handheld.

To mark the release of a new boxed set of her cinema from Severin Films and Yellow Veil Pictures, writer-director Lucile Hadžihalilović joins us to investigate the looping mysteries and chilling implications of Alain Resnais’ avant-garde masterpiece Last Year in Marienbad . Your genial host Norm Wilner is sure he’s had this conversation before.

This week, writer-director Alex Noyer – whose folk-horror creepshow Love Is the Monster is newly available on VOD – asks whether Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead is a faithful remake of the George A. Romero classic, or something entirely new. Your genial host Norm Wilner is very interested in the answer.

His new film Islands is now on digital and on demand, and writer-director Jan-Ole Gerster is here to dig into a favorite thriller: Martin Scorsese’s  revolutionary hit Taxi Driver . Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t believe no one’s ever picked this one before.

With her novel This Is Not a Test now a movie streaming on Shudder in the US and available on VOD in Canada, author Courtney Summers is here to howl about The Wolf of Snow Hollow , in which writer-director Jim Cummings plays a small-town deputy trying to solve a spate of violent murders while also dealing with his chaotic personal life. Your genial host Norm Wilner strongly suggests you watch the...

With his ‘80s dramedy This Too Shall Pass now streaming in the US and Canada, writer-director Rob Grant wants to celebrate Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me , the coming-of-age movie that changed everyone’s idea of what “a Stephen King movie” could look like. Your genial host Norm Wilner is embracing the melancholy on this one.

With her first feature Forastera opening at Film Forum in New York this Friday, writer-director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias is here to explore the hidden depths of Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman , the 2021 drama about a little girl who copes with her grandmother’s death by making a new friend: Her own mother, when she was also eight years old. Your genial host Norm Wilner wants you to know it’s simpler t...

With her hybrid documentary Modern Whore now available on digital and on demand, and screening this Thursday in Toronto at TIFF Lightbox, director Nicole Bazuin takes some time to celebrate the wild creative freedoms of The Great Muppet Caper – the one where Kermit and Fozzie play identical twins, and Miss Piggy rides a motorcycle. Your genial host Norm Wilner is so glad someone finally brought th...

With their charming indie The Travel Companion rolling through its US release, directors and co-writers Travis Wood and Alex Mallis are here to ponder the paradoxes and metaphors of Hong Sang-soo’s 2011 drama The Day He Arrives . Your genial host Norm Wilner is really happy he could drop this one right after the Tropical Malady episode, for reasons that will become apparent.