This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie has been awaiting release for a while now — since early March, in fact, which feels like a lifetime ago for all sorts of reasons.
So I was happy to listen back to it and hear that everything Catherine Legault and I discussed was still more or less relevant, and now that her new film Larry (they/them) is available to stream on CBC Gem in Canada you get to hear it too!
Catherine picked another documentary, Zachary Heinzerling’s 2013 Cutie and the Boxer, which places us inside the marriage of Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, two Japanese expats living in New York — not always harmoniously. It’s an intimate look at the lives of working artists, and the compromises they make — or refuse to make — for each other, and what happens when a couple’s fortunes start to move in opposing directions. It’s very good, is what it is, and I’m really glad she chose it.
Want to hear her thoughts? Get to it! 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 as you paint your masterpiece — or drink yourself into a stupor while your partner paints theirs.
And then, since Jaws is returning to theaters this weekend, you can catch up to that episode of Commotion I did last week with Rad and Tomris Laffly! After that, you can catch up on Shiny Things; it was a fairly quiet week, all I did was tackle A24’s Bring Her Back and Warner’s 4K upgrade of The Conjuring. Of course, if you’re a paying subscriber you also know I reviewed some other stuff in the weekly Friday What’s Worth Watching missive. So subscribe already!