The holidays are upon us, so here’s the first Christmas episode of Someone Else’s Movie — which finds returning guest Kristian Bruun rolling through his favourite seasonal selections, and also Love, Actually. Because, well, some traumas have to be confronted head-on.
It’s live on iTunes and Stitcher, or available via direct download. I’m really happy with this one; it was just a pleasure to sit down with Kristian and talk, like people, for an hour or so. Hope you enjoy it.
This week on Someone Else’s Movie, veteran actor and Canadian icon Nick Mancuso goes straight to the pantheon to talk about Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 .
The result is more monologue than conversation, which is a new one for the show, but Nick brings a lot of insight and no small amount of personality to the subject, so I think it’s worth a listen. Of course, I am a teensy bit biased.
You can find it in all the usual places: On iTunes and Stitcher, or by good old direct download. Please do one of those!
This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is a good one: Lauren Collins, an actor, writer and producer whose charming short film Zero Recognition is a Vimeo Staff Pick this week, tackles Gillian Robespierre’s delightful non-rom-com Obvious Child.
Unfortunately, this episode lands in a world that’s a little darker than it was supposed to be, thanks to some fuckwit killing three people and injuring nine more at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last Friday. But we’d recorded and scheduled this episode more than a month ago, and I have a thing about terrorists dictating what I do with my life and my show, so I’m releasing it as originally planned.
You can grab it on iTunes, on Stitcher, or straight from SEMcast central. Please enjoy it. And Stand With Planned Parenthood, if you’re so inclined.
This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie arrives to a bold new world — a world where people have heard of the show beyond this blog and my Twitter account. Our dozen(s) of new subscribers will be expecting something great, and I’m happy to provide it.
This week, filmmaker and author Nelson George discussing Sam O’Steen’s Sparkle, a blaxploitation riff on the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes that became a touchstone for at least one kid growing up in New York in the ’70s.
You can find it in all the usual places: iTunes, Stitcher, direct from the SEMcast site. Just listen! It’s good for you!
In this week’s NOW I have a Q&A with Krysten Ritter about her shiny new Marvel series Jessica Jones, which goes live on Friday. And I run through the options at this year’s Regent Park Film Festival.
I also take a look at Michael McNamara’s The Trick with the Gun, which has its Toronto premiere at the Bloor tonight before going live on Vimeo On Demand tomorrow. (Michael is also this week’s guest on Someone Else’s Movie, discussing the intersection of Dylan and documentary that is D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back.)
And if you’re not utterly sick of my voice at this point, you might want to check out my appearance on Toronto Mike’d, which went up earlier this week. An hour and three quarters of me talking about myself. Believe it or not, that isn’t something I do every day …
Well, this is amazing: Precisely eight months (and 37 episodes) after launching Someone Else’s Movie, we got our first official review. The AV Club’s Ben Cannon included it in yesterday’s Podmass roundup, and said some really lovely things about the show. (You have to scroll down a bit, but it’s there.)
I am frankly delighted, both by Cannon’s praise and by the ridiculous uptick in downloads that resulted — and I hope our new listeners stick around for this week’s episode, which features Toronto documentarian Michael McNamara on D.A. Pennebaker’s essential Bob Dylan portrait Dont Look Back.
The timing couldn’t be better, really: Michael’s new doc The Trick with the Gun has its Toronto premiere this Thursday at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, and Dont Look Back arrives on Blu-ray and DVD next week in a much-anticipated Criterion edition. So everybody wins, really.
Check it out! Subscribe on iTunes, grab it on Stitcher or just download it straight from the SEMcast site. And if you’ve been listening all along, thanks for your support. There’s some really great stuff coming up, too.
Trivia buffs take note: This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is the first to feature an Oscar nominee, and the first to feature a guest with a film in the Criterion Collection. And they’re the same person!
That would be Milcho Manchevski, writer-director of the very good, Oscar-nominated Macedonian drama Before the Rain (which could really do with a Blu-ray edition), who came through town last month and brought Milos Forman’s Amadeus into the basement.
He was a little soft-spoken, so the audio is a hair noisier than usual, but you shouldn’t have much trouble listening to it. As always, you can grab it on iTunes, Stitcher or by direct download. And enjoy!
Okay, so here’s the best thing about doing Someone Else’s Movie: Sometimes, on a perfectly ordinary Monday afternoon, a rock star comes to your house.
Thus did Natalie Merchant end up in the basement talking about Joseph L. Mankiewicz’ All About Eve just yesterday, and thanks to the Internet you can play that very conversation in your ears right now. So do that. Because she’s awesome. And maybe pick up her new CD, Paradise Is There: The New Tigerllily Recordings, when it comes out on Friday. The deluxe version includes a documentary that’s pretty good too.
Usual procedure applies. You can find it on iTunes or Stitcher, or make with the direct downloading. And enjoy it!
This week’s Someone Else’s Movie is a very special holiday episode, because I am led to understand that people enjoy very special holiday episodes and Halloween is the very specialest holiday of them all, being the only one with chocolate-covered marshmallow pumpkins.
My guest this week is Steven Hoban, a veteran producer of Canadian horror films whose latest picture, A Christmas Horror Story, marks his first co-directorial venture as well. He chose The Cabin in the Woods, Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s marvelous deconstruction of ’80s horror iconography, and the result is a reasonably wide-ranging conversation. I think it’s worth a listen.
You know what to do: Seek it out on iTunes or Stitcher, or go straight to the source. And keep a couple of pieces of candy nearby. It’s that kind of week.
This week on Someone Else’s Movie, writer-director Gabriel Carrer brings Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action classic Point Break into the basement.
It is a movie which I respect more than admire, which I think you’ll notice not long into the episode – but Gabe’s love for the film is genuine, and the resulting conversation is a good one … if undermined somewhat by Dexter snoring throughout.
You can find it on iTunes and Stitcher, or download it straight from the source. And if anyone knows an algorithm that can pull hound breath out of a WAV recording, please let me know in the comments. This is bound to happen again.
In other news, Canada reclaimed its sanity last night. Feels pretty good.