The Way They Were

This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie feels like an echo in a couple of ways: My guest, the actor and filmmaker Katie Boland, was one of the very first people to do the show all the way back in 2015, when she chose Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; thanks to a server issue, that episode is no longer available in the SEMcast feed … but you can still grab it in the SEMcast: Year One bundle on our Payhip store, along with 51 other episodes of the podcast, 45 of which aren’t available to stream anywhere else. (Maybe do that? It’s a good set.)

And in a moment that threatens to collapse the podcast in on itself, Katie picked Stories We Tell, the excellent 2012 documentary by another friend of the show, Sarah Polley. (You may remember her from her appearance on the podcast, discussing Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, or from other projects she’s done over the last several decades. I think she’s won some awards and stuff.

Stories We Tell is an exceptional film and Katie is, as always, both engaged and insightful, and it was great to catch up to her. Also, her appearance is in service of promoting her directorial debut, We’re All in This Together, which is on screens in Toronto and Vancouver right now. She plays twins! And quite well!

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And then get all caught up on Shiny Things! This week I wrote about the sudden, shocking loss of Jeff Barnaby, Shout! Factory’s Blu-ray of A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon and Criterion’s lovely 4K edition of Night of the Living Dead. And if you’re not a subscriber, you missed all that! Sign up for a 14-day free trial right here and get to reading.

Also, if you’ve forgotten what I sound like on other people’s podcasts, I’m on this week’s episode of Hollywood Suite’s A Year in Film talking about Brendan Fraser’s glorious contributions to the cinema of 1999: Blast from the Past and The Mummy. You can find the episode here, along with hours of other fun conversations that mostly don’t include me. A couple of them do, though, so that’s nice.

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