One thing I’ve discovered interviewing people for an audio format rather than for print is the performance aspect of the conversation. You have to work to balance your guest’s energy, which can be difficult when you’re not in the same room. (Thanks a bunch, coronavirus.)
On this week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie, though, that was not a problem at all, because Stealing School writer-director Li Dong and I have exactly the same level of love for the feature he chose.
He picked Steven Soderbergh’s delightful reinvention of Ocean’s Eleven, which sent us on a bounce around the entire trilogy and a few other projects from my favorite American filmmaker. And we ended up having a really great time; hopefully you’ll get a little bit of a contact high while listening.
You know how this goes. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get the episode immediately, or download it directly from the web. And then you can catch up to all the other things I’ve done over the last seven days:
- New NOW What episodes! I talked to U of T epidemiologist Susan Bondy about the risks of reopening movie theatres, and in today’s episode NOW’s own Sadaf Ahsan talks me down from the residual freakout while discussing how the pandemic is screwing with our heads.
- Hot Summer Guide recommendations for movies and television coming soon
- Yet another NOW VOD calendar, and expanded reviews of Perry Mason and 7500
I work a lot, you know.