Someone Else’s Movie gets meta this week, as I’m joined by French actor Guillaume Marbeck, who plays French director Jean-Luc Godard in Richard Linklater’s delightful new movie Nouvelle Vague, to talk about Godard’s revolutionary debut Breathless … the film we see Marbeck’s Godard making in Linklater’s film.

It’s a house of mirrors, but a really fun one, and I’m indebted to veteran publicist Winnie Wong for coming up with the idea. Time constraints meant the episode is tighter than I would have liked, but that also rhymes with the circumstances in which JLG made his breakthrough, so let’s just pretend it was intentional.

I did trim one thing, though — an early moment where Guillaume asked if I wanted him to record the episode in character as Godard, which I admit I briefly considered. But you know what they say: Podcasts are supposed to be the truth at 96 kilobits per second.

Anyway, give it a listen! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or just download the episode directly from the web and listen to it while you race around the streets of Paris with a camera, a girl and a gun. That’s all you need, really.

And then you can catch up on Shiny Things, if you’ve fallen behind; last week, I wrote about Relay and Clown in a Cornfield and A24’s coffee-table-friendly release of Ti West’s X Trilogy, and took a moment to savor the stunning Warner Archive Collection release of The Curse of Frankenstein, which reached me just a little too late for Halloween but belongs on your shelf whenever you can grab it.  If you aren’t already a subscriber … well, you should be! So subscribe!

Oh, and Dick Cheney is finally dead. That’s nice.