An Intensity of Feeling

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie went places.  I had hoped it would.

That’s because my guest, Michael Greyeyes, is a fascinating individual — an actor, a teacher, a dancer; a writer, director, choreographer. He’s charismatic and capable and really funny — and as we proved at TIFF last month with RT Thorne’s 40 Acres, when you find a role that lets him incorporate all of his skills he’s absolutely amazing.

(And hey, if you’re in Toronto today, you can see him at his most kinetic in TIFF’s memorial screening of Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum, screening tonight at 9pm as part of a mini-retrospective of Jeff’s films.)

Having seen Michael champion Station Eleven for CBC’s Canada Reads project last year, I knew he’d be a great guest for the show — and he was, bringing his whole heart to Wong Kar-wai’s magnificent, melancholy In the Mood for Love … a movie, it turns out, he’d only recently discovered, and fallen for completely.

So this is a good one. We talk about drama, we talk about staging, we talk about the eternal allure of Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, and we also talk about The Light Before the Sun, the short film Michael’s premiering at the Hamilton Film Festival on Saturday, because that’s interesting  as well. It’s a slower conversation than usual, but that works for the film: Wong’s a meditative director, after all.

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And then go catch up on your Shiny Thingses! Last week I wrote about the new 4K restorations of Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, and how they fit into the filmographies of their respective directors. And there’s more coming this week, you’ll see. Subscribe right here so you don’t miss a post.

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