There’s no new episode of Someone Else’s Movie this week.  Don’t freak out.

Everything’s fine, really, but a confluence of events — a release date shifting, a recording getting pushed, the gentle drift towards program lock turning into a roller coaster at the last minute — made it impossible to put something out yesterday. Factor in the show’s long-overdue migration to a new home on YouTube Podcasts, and it ultimately just more sense to let the chaos happen for bit. But the show will be back next Tuesday, and it’ll be like nothing ever happened.

Until then, there’s always Shiny Things! Last week I wrote about The Fall Guy and I Saw the TV Glow — two very different films about media literacy, as it turns out — and Criterion’s glorious new 4K release of Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine, which is just as powerful as it was thirty years ago. Maybe even more so. And if you subscribe, you can see what I mean by that!

That is all. See you next Tuesday. It’ll be okay, I promise.