This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is a little shorter than usual, owing to the demands of a press day. Or maybe it’s just a Nicolas Roeg thing, since Clio Barnard’s episode on Performance was recorded under similar constraints.

But having to speedrun a movie like Performance has its benefits, I suppose, since it forces the guest to drill into the things they love most about it and the impact it had on their artistic development. And it’s much the same with Sam Rice-Edwards and Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, the miasmic 1973 thriller starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie as an English couple trying to recover from a tragic loss by losing themselves in Venice, only to discover their grief continues to stalk them … along with something else.

Sam, who’s an editor by trade — and whose latest project, the archival documentary One to One: John & Yoko, is in theaters now — was struck by the film in a very specific way, and we get into that, as well as Roeg’s remarkable ability to guide us through what should have been an incomprehensible narrative and That Ending. I know I say this every time, but if you have yet to see the movie, please watch it before you listen to this episode. It’s kind of crucial, really.

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And then get caught up on Shiny Things, why not? Last week, I celebrated Arrow Video’s preposterous new 4K edition of Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight — which might be his best movie, as it turns out? — and there’s a lot more coming because for some reason everything comes out at the end of the month nowadays. Feels inefficient somehow, but that’s the business for you. Have you subscribed yet? Feels like something you ought to do.