I think this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie sets a record: It’s about La Dolce Vita, meaning Federico Fellini has had more shows devoted to his works than any other director.

(We’ve also tackled four by Edgar Wright, but three of them were in a single episode; same for George Lucas, whose quartet of Star Wars films were covered in Akash Sherman’s episode on the entire saga.)

So there you go! And it’s The Cuban‘s Sergio Navarretta who digs into the gorgeous emptiness of Fellini’s 1960 hit, which became an international sensation and made Italian fashionable again, despite being explicitly about how shallow and unfulfilling it all was. Lost in translation, I guess.

Give it a listen! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get it immediately, or download the episode directly from the web. It’s good!

And then catch up with a couple of fresh episodes of NOW What: In Friday’s podcast, Rad and Natalia brought me up to date on the state of Toronto’s street food with the help of Kanto’s Diona Joyce, and today’s episode tackles the dining industry from a different angle, as restaurateur Jen Agg talks to me about her reluctance to open her places back up for indoor dining. Both worth your time, I think, though the audio on today’s is … not optimal.

What else have I been up to? Well, there was NOW’s weekly VOD roundup, reviews of Train to Busan Presents Peninsula (very fun), Star Trek: Lower Decks (less so) and An American Pickle (good, if flawed), and I wrote a thing about David Cronenberg’s Crash finally getting the chance to play a drive-in last week.

I am told the screening did not go entirely smoothly, which seems like the perfectly perverse capper for that particular event. But the piece was fun to write.