Someone Else's Movie

Writer-director M.H. Murray -- whose first feature I Don’t Know Who You Are has its world premiere at TIFF this Thursday, September 7th -- salutes Three Colours: Blue , the first film in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s brilliant trilogy of dramas inspired by the themes of the French flag. Your genial host Norm Wilner is just here to be amazed by Juliette Binoche.

TIFF is coming, but you know what else is? Children Ruin Everything, the second season of which is about to air on The CW in the US for the very first time! And that lets your genial host Norm Wilner reissue the very second episode of this podcast, in which actor, screenwriter and future sitcom star Aaron Abrams attests to the comic perfection of Bill Murray and Howard Franklin's 1990 classic heis...

Calgary filmmaker Berkley Brady , whose first feature Dark Nature is now streaming on Hollywood Suite, professes a lifelong love for Garry Marshall’s Beaches -- the beloved 1988 melodrama starring Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey as lifelong friends who are the wind beneath each other's wings. Your genial host Norm Wilner has something in his eye, okay?

With her first dramatic feature The Unknown Country now in U.S. theaters and dropping on digital next month, filmmaker Morrisa Maltz discusses Abbas Kiarostami's 1987 breakout Where Is the Friend's House? , the observational drama that introduced the Iranian director to the world -- even though he'd been making movies since the '70s. Your genial host Norm Wilner is moving this week, so please keep...

With his time-travel drama Aporia opening in theaters across North America this Friday, writer-director Jared Moshé is here to salute Peter Cattaneo’s The Full Monty –  the 1997 international smash that made Trainspottting 's Robert Carlyle sexy instead of scary.  Your genial host Norm Wilner always knew the guy had it in him.

With his new thriller The Channel now available on digital and on demand, writer-director William Kaufman drops us into the urban nightmare of Michael Mann's Collateral , the one where Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise drive around Los Angeles in a murder cab. Your genial host Norm Wilner reminds you: Always tip your driver. Or else.

With her new film North of Normal opening across Canada this week, filmmaker Carly Stone is here to support another new release, Celine Song's stunning drama Past Lives . Your genial host Norm Wilner hopes he and Carly will see you at the 6:30pm screening of North of Normal this Friday, July 28th, at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Sarah Gadon will be there too!

Actor and comedy dynamo Emma Hunter ( The Beaverton , Mary Goes Round , Mr. D and now Moonshine , which returned to CBC this week and just reached the US via The CW) has loved Penny Marshall's 1992 grand slam A League of Their Own since she was a kid. Now she gets to love it on a podcast. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to supply the stats.

This week, filmmaker Mel Eslyn -- whose first feature Biosphere , starring Mark Duplass and Sterling K. Brown, is now playing in the US and available to rent on digital across North America -- celebrates Todd Rohal's The Catechism Cataclysm , another weird comedy about two guys going through some stuff. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been waiting twelve years to talk about this movie with somebo...

Veteran genre director Chuck Russell ( Nightmare on Elm Street III: Dream Warriors , The Blob , The Mask , Eraser and the new Paradise City ) picks Robert Clouse's martial-arts classic Enter the Dragon , leading to a conversation about how Bruce Lee changed action movies in general -- and Chuck's, specifically. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been sitting on this one since last fall, and he's so...

Author and actor Priya Guns -- who co-stars opposite Devery Jacobs in V.T. Nayani's This Place , returning to the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto next Friday, July 7th -- throws down for the genius of Boots Riley's 2018 debut Sorry to Bother You , a movie that doesn't get anywhere near the respect it deserves. Your genial host Norm Wilner has Priya's back on this one.

In advance of the special Pride screening of his New Romantics documentary Tramps! this Thursday, June 22nd, at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, filmmaker K evin Hegge celebrates another music movie: Alek Keshishian's Madonna: Truth or Dare , the 1991 documentary about the controversial Blonde Ambition tour that nudged queer culture into the mainstream. Your genial host Norm Wilner never mastered v...

With his latest feature Enter the Drag Dragon now playing in Saskatoon and opening in Toronto next Friday, filmmaker and exhibitor Lee Demarbre is here to sing the praises of Sam Peckinpah's era-defining 1969 Western The Wild Bunch . Your genial host Norm Wilner is all ears.

Actor and filmmaker Dan Abramovici ( Ben's At Home , Limnal ) is here to celebrate Stanley Tong's 1992 action picture Police Story III , better known as Supercop -- you know, the one where Michelle Yeoh jumps a motorcycle onto a moving train, Jackie Chan hangs from a helicopter, and your genial host Norm Wilner can't watch it without anxiety.

It's our 450th episode. and actor Sean Gunn -- fresh from playing both Kraglin the Ravager and Rocket the raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 -- is here to run through Robert Altman's epic 1975 masterpiece Nashville in just under half an hour while your genial host Norm Wilner makes the most of every minute. Who wouldn't, really?

With his latest film Blueback now available on digital and on demand across North America, director Robert Connolly ( The Bank, Paper Planes, The Dry ) is here to discuss how Vincent Ward's genre-bending 1988 fantasy The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey changed the trajectory of his life and career. Your genial host Norm Wilner can see how that could happen.

With his second feature Retrograde opening across Canada this Friday, writer-director Adrian Murray celebrates the 30th anniversary of Richard Linklater’s cult classic Dazed and Confused -- the one about some teenagers in Austin, Texas on the last day of school in 1976. Your genial host Norm Wilner loves this one, man: He gets older, but the movie stays the same.  

Writer and producer Ian Carpenter (Shudder's Slasher: Ripper , Tubi's Marry, F***, Kill ) brings Harmony Korine's 1997 directorial debut Gummo onto the podcast ... and finds himself re-evalluating the movie that rocked his world a quarter-century ago. Your genial host Norm Wilner has totally been there, just not with Gummo .

With his new drama Acidman now available on VOD in North America, filmmaker Alex Lehmann ( Blue Jay , Paddleton , Meet Cute ) salutes Nine Days , Edson Oda's metaphysical masterwork starring Winston Duke as a man who spends his afterlife auditioning souls to be born into the world. It sounds heavy, but it's light as air ... and just as essential. Your genial host Norm Wilner is all in on this one.

Before she starts pursuing Emily Hampshire and annoying Jonas Chernick in Sean Garrity’s The End of Sex , opening across Canada this Friday, actor and occasional director Melanie Scrofano fulfills a promise made years ago and shares her love for Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 WWII extravaganza Inglourious Basterds . Your genial host Norm Wilner has been waiting seven years for this.

Actor and filmmaker Vanessa Matsui ( Ghost BFF , The Girlfriend Experience , The Hot Zone, Letterkenny ) celebrates the Toronto premiere of her directorial debut, Midnight at the Paradise , by digging into the remarkable chemistry of Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in Sophie Hyde's Good Luck to You, Leo Grande . Your genial host Norm Wilner apologizes for calling Daryl "David" that one time. Mid...

With her directorial debut Emily arriving on digital, actor-turned-filmmaker Frances O'Connor shares her love for Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2010 drama Biutiful , and Iñárritu's fascination with finding emotion in the most extreme circumstances. Your genial host Norm Wilner is listening.

Film teacher and filmmaker Joseph Amenta , whose first feature Soft launches its Canadian run at Toronto's Revue Cinema on Friday April 7th, is here to talk about the way Sean Baker's Tangerine introduced them to an entirely new way of making movies -- and one that feels even more important today. Your genial host Norm Wilner is excited to hear about it.

Montreal filmmaker Sarah Watts -- whose first feature You Can Live Forever, co-directed with Mark Slutsky, is now playing in theaters across Canada -- celebrates Bound , the 1996 debut that introduced the world to the Wachowskis, and to the sight of Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly as film-noir lovers. Your genial host Norm Wilner was wondering when someone would choose this.

With his prizewinning second feature Riceboy Sleeps playing in theaters across Canada in advance of next month's Canadian Screen Awards, actor and filmmaker Anthony Shim shares his love for a formative South Korean classic: Lee Chang-dong's unforgiving drama Peppermint Candy . Your genial host Norm Wilner has been looking forward to sharing this for a very long time.