On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, I welcome writer-director Jason Buxton, who broke out at TIFF in 2012 with his simmering drama Blackbird — starring friend of the show Connor Jessup — and returned to the festival last September with Sharp Corner, an equally unnerving psychodrama starring Ben Foster as a family man who becomes obsessed with the idea of emergency preparation, and Cobie Smulders as his understandably concerned wife. It opens in theaters in the US and Canada this Friday, so this was the perfect excuse to get Jason on the show,

And Jason picked another quietly devastating drama: The Ice Storm, Ang Lee’s 1997 adaptation of Rick Moody’s autobiographical novel about two families in a small Connecticut town confronting the death of hope in Nixon’s America.

I’m oversimplifying, of course, but that’s pretty much it — exquisitely performed by a truly incredible cast that includes Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Jamey Sheridan, Sigourney Weaver as the adults and Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood and Adam Hann-Byrd as their kids. It’s a film that offers a lot of room for interpretation, and Jason was more than up for digging in.

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And then you can dig into last week’s Shiny Things, where I wrote about Criterion’s new 4K editions of Sean Baker’s Anora and Julian Schnabel’s Basquiat and an excellent trio of UHD upgrades from Warner: Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider. If you haven’t already subscribed … well, there’s a very simple way to do that, you know.