This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie is one of the shortest I’ve ever released — but that’s what happens when you grab an award-winning filmmaker at TIFF.
All things considered, Clio Barnard was awfully gracious to take twenty minutes out of her press day while she was here last year with her Platform contender Dark River — and we made the most of it. Now that her movie is available on disc and VOD, I can finally release her episode, and it’s a good one.
Clio picked Performance, Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s watershed psychodrama about emotional transference in Swinging London — or, depending on how old you were when you first saw it, the one where Mick Jagger and James Fox spend a lot of time staring intently into each other’s eyes. We get into that, and quite a bit more, in record time.
C’mon, listen! Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, listen on Spotify or just download the episode directly from the web. And then watch Dark River. It’s really quite good.
This comment is a spoiler for anyone who hasn’t finished season 5 of Bojack Horseman.
Sorry, not related to Someone Else’s Movie episode, but having finished season 5 of Bojack Horseman last night, I assumed that in the penultimate episode they were going for an All That Jazz vibe (one of my favorite movies), but I really wanted them to double down on it an go full Ben Vereen.
“Folks! What can I tell you about my next guest? This cat allowed himself to be adored, but not loved. And his success in show business was matched by failure in his personal relationship bag, now – that’s where he *really* bombed. And he came to believe that show business, work, love, his whole life, even himself and all that jazz, was bullshit. He became numero uno game player – uh, to the point where he didn’t know where the games ended, and the reality began. Like, for this cat, the only reality – is death, man. Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer, not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never *nobody’s* friend. In his final appearance on the great stage of life – uh, you can applaud if you want to – ” Bojack Horseman.
Totally works.