Hard Choices

I’ve noticed that a lot of guests on Someone Else’s Movie picking recent films lately — or recent-ish, anyway. It’s rare that someone goes back further than the ’90s, which I suppose speaks to the general age of my guests, and the age they were when they encountered the movies that hit them like lightning bolts.

For his episode, the documentary filmmaker Jeremy Workman surprised me — choosing William Wyler’s The Heiress, the 1949 drama that earned Olivia de Havilland her second Oscar and gave Montgomery Clift his first real leading role.

It’s the first time anyone’s brought a Wyler film onto the show, which I find frankly astonishing; how has no one chosen Ben-Hur or Roman Holiday before now? But Jeremy did it, and now you can enjoy that conversation.

Subscribe on Apple PodcastsGoogle Play and Stitcher to get it instantly, or download it directly from the web. And then you can feast on all the other stuff that I’ve put down for you in the last week.

There’s the latest episode of NOW What, where I talk to restaurateur Jacob Wharton-Shukster and provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath about the efforts to curb anti-vaxxer harassment of staff and diners at establishments whose owners have expressed support for vaccination passports,

And then there’s all the written stuff, like my looks at TIFF’s Canadian content and promising genre cinema and the NOW 40 at 40 I wrote about what Sarah Polley’s been up to since her festival cover all the way back in 1997. (Rather a lot, really.)

There’s also last week’s What to Watch column, and our Crave preview, which came in a lot later than usual this month. But it’s all up there now! Get to reading!

(And Winnie is settling in very nicely, thanks for asking.)

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