We’ve had Scorsese, we’ve had Allen, we’ve had Soderbergh and now someone’s brought Cronenberg into the basement: This week on Someone Else’s Movie, we’re diving into the Canadian master’s 1992 head trip Naked Lunch!

Dragging it into the basement is director Sean Garrity, whose new drama Borealis opens in Toronto on Friday and rolls out across the country in the weeks to come. It’s a really good conversation, and I hope it leads people to take another look at this mid-career masterwork as it crawls toward its 25th anniversary.

You can find it on iTunes, on Stitcher or at the show’s very own website. Go get it! Shoot it right into your brain!

ADVISORY: Do not shoot podcasts directly into brain.

It’s feeling a lot like spring on Someone Else’s Movie … probably because this week’s guest, screenwriter Matt Hansen, has chosen to talk about Phil Alden Robinson’s Field of Dreams.

It’s okay to get a little sniffly.

Listen in wherever you usually find the show: on iTunes, on Stitcher or just by going to the SEMcast site and hitting “download”.  It’s waiting for you.

As Someone Else’s Movie rolls into its second year, I get to release an episode that throws some love to a movie that almost never gets any: Ishtar.

Elaine May’s 1987 espionage comedy that is remembered today — if it’s remembered at all — as one of the biggest flops Hollywood ever produced, an expensive turkey that “wasted” the expensive talents of Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman.

The thing is, Ishtar is far stranger than its reputation might have you believe, as well as much more charming, and journalist-turned-filmmaker Aaron Hillis has his defense all worked out. We also spend a little time talking about the role video stores play in the rediscovery of misunderstood films, which is understandable since we recorded this episode inside Aaron’s very own shop.

You know where to go, right? iTunes, Stitcher, the show’s own website? Sure you do. It’s a good one, please enjoy.

Someone Else’s Movie is one year old this week, and we mark the occasion with a really great episode: Writer-director Jeremy LaLonde (Sex After Kids, How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town) tackles Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.

It’s a terrific conversation, starting with Jeremy’s early experiences of Allen’s films and bouncing around to a number of different points, including at least one uncomfortable digression. This is the sort of show I had in mind when I created the podcast, and I’m delighted to see so many guests responding to it.

Check it out! You can find it on iTunes or Stitcher, or straight from the site as always. And take a moment to check out the Indiegogo campaign for Jeremy’s next project The Go-Getters, featuring friends of the show Aaron Abrams, Kristian Bruun, Scott Thompson and Christine Horne! It sounds like a blast!

Last week we did our first Soderbergh movie, and this week on Someone Else’s Movie we tackle our first Scorsese picture, thanks to Born to Be Blue writer-director Robert Budreau choosing Raging Bull.

It’s a pretty heavy title, but we went in swinging, and I think you’ll like what results. You can find it in the usual places: iTunes or Stitcher, or right on the website.

Fun fact: This is Episode 52, which means our first anniversary is just a week away — with another American titan making his first appearance on the show, as it happens. Stay tuned.

I’ve been doing Someone Else’s Movie for nearly a year now, and it’s taken that long for someone to pick a movie by one of the most gifted and prolific American directors of his generation.

But finally, in this week’s episode, Christopher Warre Smets — whose short film This Is Not What You Had Planned just launched on the National Screen Institute’s website — brings Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight into the basement. This isn’t even a case of me having to sit on a show for months because of scheduling; we taped this last week.

End of complaint. The result is a terrific conversation about a terrific movie, pinballing through Soderbergh’s body of work (and the director’s ambivalence towards some of it) and digressing into Elmore Leonard’s cinematic and literary legacy, just for fun.

You know the drill: Grab it on iTunes or Stitcher, or via direct download. And enjoy the ride.

On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, current Oscar nominee Adam Benzine (Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah) brings a most unexpected title into the basement.

He chose Primer, Shane Carruth’s 2004 Sundance sensation about a couple of engineers who invent a time machine, and proceed to ruin their lives with it. Adam’s reasons for picking the movie make a lot of sense once you hear them, and Primer gives us plenty of avenues to explore.

Whether you’re reading this today or in the unknown future, you can find the show via  iTunes or Stitcher, or directly from the SEMcast home page. And keep your fingers crossed for Adam on Sunday night. He’s got a pretty good shot at winning this, and it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is powered by the delirious clean energy of rock and roll, as specifically realized by Sex Bob-Omb and their friends in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

Jennifer Liao , director of the apocalyptic new comedy End of Days, Inc., brings Edgar Wright’s 2010 cult classic into the basement, and honestly I couldn’t be happier; I’ve been waiting  for someone to pick one of Edgar’s movies ever since I started this project, and this is a great one.

So spin it up via the usual means —  iTunes, Stitcher, directly from the website — and enjoy! And if you need a little supplemental reading, here are my interviews from the August 2010 press tour: A write-through with Edgar and Michael Cera, and a Q&A with Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh and Jason Schwartzman. Also enjoy!

I’m generally pretty happy with every episode of Someone Else’s Movie — I mean, I have to be, I guess. But this week’s feels like the Platonic ideal of the show, somehow.

The guest is Sarah Gadon, who’s one of the sharpest people I know, and the movie is Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7, a 1962 masterwork that gives Sarah plenty to talk about, both in terms of theory and emotional response.

As usual, you can get it on iTunes or Stitcher, or by direct download from the SEMcast site. Please do!

Also, this is the first episode of the podcast that comes with supplemental material: Here’s the Varda interview I mention during the show, and here’s my 2012 conversation with Sarah about Antiviral and her insistence on managing the image of her character within the film. You know, if you feel like diving deeper.

Fun fact: This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is the first of an extremely informal trilogy, which will be rolling out in the coming months.

The guest is Ben Lewis, an actor and filmmaker who makes movies with previous SEMcast guest Lauren Collins; their short film Zero Recognition is a lot of fun, and they’ve got something else coming later this year that I’m really looking forward to seeing.

Ben picked Tootsie, Sydney Pollack’s 1982 cross-dressing farce, which was a lot smarter than it needed to be back then and remains surprisingly progressive now.

There’s a lot to unpack, and we get to it fairly quickly, so jump right in! You can find the show on  iTunes, Stitcher or directly from the website. Maybe consider subscribing? That’s cool.