Eleven years into Someone Else’s Movie, there are still a lot of films that haven’t been tackled. Which isn’t surprising, given the sea of options available to a guest, but sometimes someone picks something that feels like it must have been covered before, and when I check I’m shocked to see it just … hasn’t.

So, Taxi Driver. I guess it’s nice that we didn’t get to Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader’s revolutionary character study until the year of its 50th anniversary, then? And I’m glad that Jan-Ole Gerster was the guest who chose it, because the story of how he came to the film is such a fascinating one … and also because Jan-Ole’s new film Islands rhymes so well with Schrader’s idea of the isolated, disconnected protagonist searching for purpose in a world that no longer offers it.

You should see Islands. But you should also listen to this episode. And you know how: 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 as you drive through the hellish Manhattan night, trying to drown out all the babbling and the sobbing. That’s a healthy way of coping, right?

Also: There wasn’t a lot of activity on the Shiny Things front last week, as I was finishing up this contract thing and didn’t have enough to write about … but there’ll be plenty this week, just you wait. And my paid subscribers did get a thousand words on Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day in Friday’s What’s Worth Watching mailing, so if you want to read that all you need to do is upgrade that sub! The free trial is right there waiting for you, too.