I try to have at least one Oscar nominee  on Someone Else’s Movie every year, and this time around I’m delighted to have Mortiz Binder, whose nomination for Best Original Screenplay (shared with director Tim Fehlbaum and co-writer Alex David) is the sole nod for the excellent journalistic thriller September 5. It’s up against some pretty heavy hitters, but that’s irrelevant; it’s a really good movie, and you should see it. It’s on Blu-ray today, in fact!

Mortiz picked a film that couldn’t be more different than his own: Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the wildly ambitious spaghetti Western that disassembled the genre and reconfigured it into a sweaty, desperate epic. I love this movie, and so does Moritz — and his story of discovering it as a kid, and rediscovering it over the decades, is a great one. Also we talk about September 5, of course.

Go get it! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web and listen to it on the long ride through the badlands. It’s not like there’s anything to look at.

And then get caught up on Shiny Things! This week I wrote about Arrow Video’s new editions of Alice, Sweet Alice (now in 4K!) and Kazuo Mori’s new-to-me ’60s thrillers A Certain Killer and A Killer’s Key, which were a very welcome surprise. And that’s in addition to the weekly What to Watch recommendations I send out to the paid tier. Gotta give them a little something. But you’re already a subscriber, right?

Oh, and the Toronto Film Critics Association gala is coming up on Monday — when we award the great big prizes for Best Canadian Film and Best Canadian Documentary — so I had a conversation with Matthew Rankin, whose Universal Language is one of our finalists, for the TFCA website. That’s a good read, if I do say so myself.

Are you reading this on Tuesday the 18th? A handful of tickets are still available for tonight’s Secret Movie Club, which I’ll be hosting at 7pm at the Lightbox. It’s good. You should come. I will say nothing further.