This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie features more of my voice than I usually prefer, but I think I’m okay with it. Over the years, I’ve learned to tell when an interview subject needs to be coaxed out a little, and in this case talking about my own connection to beloved, bygone movie houses was the key that got us rolling.

This is not a knock on Anita Doron, this week’s guest; she’s a pretty open person, really, and she’s spoken at length about her own work in the past — like the films The End of Silence and The Lesser Blessed, and her script for the Oscar-nominated animated feature The Breadwinner. And her new film Maya and Samar just launched its Canadian theatrical run on Friday, which gave me the opportunity to book her for the podcast.

But Anita picked Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, a minimalist and largely dialogue-free drama of the final night of a Taipei movie theater, and talking about a film one loves very much can be a little intimidating. So I offered that I’d basically grown up in a second-run movie theater, and she asked about that, and then there were more questions, and while that got us onto a whole thing about what was lost when digital fully replaced celluloid as the medium on which motion pictures are both shot and distributed, and I guess I have a lot of opinions about that, too. So if you’re sick of my voice, feel free to jump to the second half of the episode … but if you’re sick of my voice, I suspect you’re not even reading these words.

Anyway! I’m probably making it sound worse than it is, so just go listen and see how you like it. Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice — though surely you did that years ago, right? — or just download the episode directly from the web and listen to it as you wander around an ancient city, looking for inspiration and/or a quick hookup.

And once you’re … done … you can catch up on the newest editions of Shiny Things! Last week I spun up a recent Blu-ray restoration of Diane Keaton’s only documentary, Heaven, and of course there was Friday’s What’s Worth Watching for paid subscribers, where it was all genre all the time as I tackled Project Hail Mary, Ready or Not: Here I Come and Shudder’s new documentary 1000 Women in Horror. You can always check out the 14-day free trial, if you’re curious. It’s good!

And now, because it’s sunny out, I shall ride a bicycle to this afternoon’s meeting. That’ll be good too.