Happy National Canadian Film Day! This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie features the return of Ingrid Veninger, a singular filmmaker whose work carves out a profoundly personal path.

She first appeared on the show in 2015, tackling John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence; this week, with her new film Crocodile Eyes screening at VIFF Centre Thursday afternoon as part of their Canadian Film Week series, she’s back to talk about David Lynch’s 2006 experiment Inland Empire, starring Laura Dern as “a woman in trouble” and pushing both actor and audience further than Lynch ever had before. Now that it stands as the last feature he ever released, it has a slightly more melancholy reputation … but it’s a great topic for discussion, and Ingrid has plenty to say about its impact on her own creative development.

You know how this works: 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 while you watch the rabbits do … whatever it is they’re doing.

And then get caught up on Shiny Things, why not? Last week I covered A24 and Elevation Pictures’ slightly different discs of Babygirl and The Brutalist, as well as Via Vision’s excellent new Blu-rays of Man Bites Dog, In the Bedroom and Shattered Glass. If you were a subscriber you already knew that, of course. And if not, there’s a pretty simple fix. See you there.