Someone Else's Movie

As her first feature A Safe Distance rolls towards its Canadian premiere at Fantasia on Thursday, director Gloria Mercer is here to make sure Robert Altman’s Thieves Like Us is held in the same regard as all his other ‘70s classics. Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t really find a flaw in that argument. 

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With his directorial debut The Outer Threat opening across Canada today, veteran producer William Woods steps up for M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, the follow-up to The Sixth Sense that dared to imagine a different kind of superhero movie. Your genial host Norm Wilner is curious to see where this goes.

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With his eerie Rose of Nevada enthralling audiences across North America, and opening in Toronto, Vancouver and Hamilton this Friday, Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin is here to make the case for John Milius’ Big Wednesday – the personal epic starring Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt and Gary Busey as California surfers – as a lost masterpiece. Your genial host Norm Wilner is curious to see where this goes.

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His new movie Best Boy follows three adult siblings locked in a deeply dysfunctional rivalry with one another, so it makes perfect sense that writer-director Jesse Noah Klein would want to tackle Thomas Vinterberg’s radical Dogme drama The Celebration, aka Festen. Your genial host Norm Wilner guarantees this episode was recorded entirely handheld.

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To mark the release of a new boxed set of her cinema from Severin Films and Yellow Veil Pictures, writer-director Lucile Hadžihalilović joins us to investigate the looping mysteries and chilling implications of Alain Resnais’ avant-garde masterpiece Last Year in Marienbad. Your genial host Norm Wilner is sure he’s had this conversation before.

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