I’m sorry about the headline. I am. It’s low-hanging fruit. But Alex Winter really is excellent, both in his art and his activism, and I’ve been trying to get him for an episode of Someone Else’s Movie almost since I launched the show. And he’s been into it! He’s just, you know, really busy … especially right now, what with releasing a new movie, Adulthood, the same week he and Keanu Reeves bring Waiting for Godot to Broadway.

… so of course he’d carve out an hour the morning after the first Gotot preview to sit down and record the episode I released today. Because he’s excellent.

Alex wanted to talk about Luis Bunuel’s 1951 drama Los Olvidados, a study of impoverished young people turning on each other, and  ultimately themselves, because there’s nowhere else to direct their rage. Hailed at Cannes — but scorned by Mexican critics who’d been hoping for a homegrown Bicycle Thief — it’s an uncompromising work that feels even more meaningful in light of Bunuel’s turn towards absurdist satire for his social critiques. This one’s raw and angry and real, and that’s why Alex is championing it.

You can find the episode on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or just download it directly from the web and listen to it while you’re dragged around the most neglected parts of Mexico City by an older boy who’s enlisted you in a fevered plan for violent revenge. Because that’s fun.

After that, there’s more Shiny Things to catch up on! By the time you read this, I should have published my reviews of Criterion’s new release of Born in Flames and Warner Archive’s 4K special edition of Get Carter, both of which have that above-and-beyond feeling that tells me the people who worked on these discs truly loved doing so.

And of course subscribers to the paid tier already got this morning’s What’s Worth Watching, where I reviewed Mike Figgis’ Megadoc, Alexandre O. Philippe’s Chain Reactions and the second season of Amazon’s Gen V.  Not a subscriber yet? Maybe you should be!

I mean, you don’t have to take the paid option, but obviously it’d be swell if you did.