Her first feature FORASTERA opens at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social on Friday, and Lucía Aleñar Iglesias is here to celebrate Céline Sciamma's similarly delicate and complex family drama PETITE MAMAN. Everywhere you get your podcasts, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/luc...

Hey, a director! This week, MODERN WHORE's Nicole Bazuin joins us to discuss a film that's near and dear to her heart: Jim Henson's THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/nic...

This week, THE TRAVEL COMPANION directors Travis Wood and Alex Mallis unpack the quiet oddness of Hong Sang-soo's 2011 gem THE DAY HE ARRIVES -- and also discuss the functions of festival Q&As and film critics! On all podcast platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/tra...

Bonus Friday episode! AT THE PLACE OF GHOSTS writer-director Bretten Hannam explores the mysteries of Apitchatpong Weerasethakul's TROPICAL MALADY. Available on all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bre...

With his latest drama TWO PIANOS now playing in New York and Los Angeles, writer-director Arnaud Desplechin shares his love for Judd Apatow's misunderstood 2009 dramedy FUNNY PEOPLE. Available wherever you get your podcasts, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/arn...

Gift link. I spent twenty minutes chatting in a green room with Seymour in 2014, and he gave me an entirely new perspective on my career that led to me launching @semcast.bsky.social, the most satisfying thing I've ever done. May he rest in peace.

With ERUPCJA in theaters across North America, director Pete Ohs loses himself in the atmosphere and ambiguities of Ryusuke Hamaguchi's EVIL DOES NOT EXIST. You should join him! On all podcast platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/pet...

With her acclaimed first feature BLUE HERON rolling into theaters this week, writer-director @sophyromvari.bsky.social returns to unpack Martha Coolidge's revolutionary debut NOT A PRETTY PICTURE. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/sop...

With the East Coast drama LITTLE LORRAINE opening across Canada on Friday, actor Auden Thornton joins us to unpack the layers of loss and emotion in Sarah Polley’s first feature AWAY FROM HER. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/aud...

For our 600th episode, COLD STORAGE director Jonny Campbell tackles Mike Hodges' classic gangster psychodrama GET CARTER. The style! The score! Michael Caine in full, terrifying fury! On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/jon...

With THE MORTUARY ASSISTANT now streaming on @shudder.com, director Jeremiah Kipp is here to celebrate another creeper about a sinister funeral home: Don Coscarelli's cult classic PHANTASM! On your favorite podcast provider, or click on the image below to stream it directly. Happy haunting!

His new movie MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE is dropping on Hulu and Disney+, so you should check out @bdgrabinski.bsky.social's delightful 2021 episode on Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD. Please enjoy it before Ray shows up and ruins everything: www.someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ben...

With her new drama MAYA AND SAMAR now playing in theaters across Canada, director Anita Doron celebrates GOODBYE, DRAGON INN, Tsai Ming-Liang’s love letter to cinemas and audiences. On your favorite podcast app, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ani...

It's our 11th anniversary! And to celebrate this milestone we've got @horrornonna.com -- whose 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR starts streaming on @shudder.com on Friday -- to unpack Abel Ferrara's revolutionary MS .45. On all podcast platforms, and streaming at someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ale...

WEEKEND BONUS EPISODE! Alison McAlpine -- who's going to the #Oscars tomorrow with her documentary short PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS -- untangles the complexities of Maren Ade's masterful TONI ERDMANN. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ali...

With his new sketch show coming to @tosketchfest.bsky.social on Friday, Jon Blair sinks his teeth into George A. Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD -- and finds plenty to chew on. Available wherever you get your podcasts, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/jon...

Before her new show ONE BUTTHOLE AFTER ANOTHER premieres at TO Sketchfest, Toronto comic Tiyawnda stops in to talk about her fervent love for Jonathan Demme’s relentless adaptation of THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. On all podcast platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/tiy...

This week, director Paris Barclay -- whose new documentary BILLY PRESTON: THAT'S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT opens in New York on Friday -- tackles Stanley Kramer’s GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER with a wealth of research. On all podcast platforms, and right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/par...

To mark her revelatory performance in the new drama MONTREAL, MY BEAUTIFUL, Joan Chen is here to celebrate Julian Schnabel's masterful adaptation of THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/joa...

His new short DISC playing Clermont-Ferrand this week, but filmmaker Blake Winston Rice is still buzzing about Jesse Buckley's performance in Chloé Zhao's HAMNET. Can you blame him? Find it on your favorite podcast platform, or stream the episode right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bla...

How did seeing Denzel Washington in TRAINING DAY put the young Emmanuel Kabongo on a path to produce and star in the new thriller SWAY? You can probably guess, but it's more fun if you listen to him tell the story. On all podcast providers and right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/emm...

This week, Oscar and Emmy nominee Hubert Davis -- whose dramatic debut THE WELL opens in Toronto and Montreal on Friday -- takes Tony Scott's TOP GUN for a spin. Military propaganda or iconic blockbuster? Find out wherever you listen to podcasts, or right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/hub...

Hey, SEMcast pals! Thanks to a weird but unavoidable confluence of events, there's no new episode this week. But don't you worry, SOMEONE ELSE'S MOVIE will be back next Tuesday, all shiny and fresh and maybe with a nice little hat on. See you then!

With his new podcast TUBBY landing on Apple and Amazon's best-of lists, this felt like the perfect time to bring Alan Zweig's episode on THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE out of the vault. On all podcast platforms, and right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/fla...

In memory of Rob Reiner -- and to get us through the last weeks of this miserable year -- we're playing some favorites over the holidays. Here's Kristin Booth's lovely episode on THE PRINCESS BRIDE.

New episode! CODE 3's @aimeecarrero.bsky.social is here to talk about her undying love for THE BIRDCAGE -- and how Mike Nichols got South Beach in the mid-90s exactly right. On your favorite podcast platform, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/aim...

Buckle up, everybody! This week, EEPHUS director Carson Lund takes the wheel for a tour of Monte Hellman’s existential grindhouse picture TWO-LANE BLACKTOP. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/car...

Everything sucks right now, but I just found out I've landed a really cool guest for @semcast.bsky.social so that's nice.

This week, @veilletteinto.bsky.social looks at Just Jaeckin's adult drama EMMANUELLE and its run-in with the Ontario Censor Board, which he documents for @severinfilms.bsky.social in EMMANUELLE IN ONTARIO. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/eri...

This week, MEADOWLARKS director Tasha Hubbard talks about seeing Debra Granik's rural thriller WINTER'S BONE at the exact right time in her life -- and how its sense of authenticity informs her own work. Find it wherever you get your podcasts, or streaming here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/tas...

If you listen to @hertzbarry.bsky.social on FAST FIVE in your car, you may feel the urge to challenge someone to a race. Please don't do that. Just enjoy some thoughts about the entire FAST series from the guy who literally wrote the book on it! someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bar...

Jinkies! This week, LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS writer-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese celebrate their unironic love of SCOOBY-DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED -- and, especially, Linda Cardellini's Velma. On all podcast platforms and streaming at someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/emm... !

Actor Guillaume Marbeck plays Jean-Luc Godard in Richard Linklater’s delightful NOUVELLE VAGUE, so how could we pass up the opportunity to have him tackle Godard’s revolutionary BREATHLESS? On all podcast platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/gui...

Writer-director Bryn Chainey, whose first feature RABBIT TRAP is now on digital (and ideal Halloween viewing), conjures up Jonathan Miller’s eerie BBC adaptation of M.R. James’ WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bry...

Wake up! Because DUST BUNNY writer-director @bryanfuller.bsky.social is here to unpack the pulpy effects and still-potent metaphor of Philip Kaufman's 1978 adaptation of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/bry...

Just cutting tomorrow's @semcast.bsky.social, with a guest I'd been hoping to land since the podcast launched a decade ago. And it's as good as I could have hoped. You'll love it ... if you're still capable of experiencing love, of course.

His historical drama VINDICATION SWIM rolls into US theaters this Friday, and writer-director Elliott Hasler is here to swash the buckles for Gore Verbinski’s PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL. On all podcast platforms, and right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ell...

Prepare for battle, as DEATHSTALKER star Daniel Bernhardt recounts having his mind blown open by THE MATRIX -- after a heads-up from his buddy Chad Stahelski. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/dan...

This week, filmmaker Jules Koostachin -- whose new movie ANGELA'S SHADOW is now streaming on @hollywoodsuite.bsky.social -- joins us to talk about an unlikely inspiration: Seeing FLASHDANCE with her mom. On all podcast providers, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/jul...

As her subversive classic BORN IN FLAMES joins the Criterion Collection, writer-director Lizzie Borden offers a radical take on Chantal Akerman’s JEANNE DIELMAN, specifically: What happened next? On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/liz...

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He’s on Broadway with his best pal Keanu Reeves in WAITING FOR GODOT, and his new movie ADULTHOOD is in theaters now, but somehow @alexwinter.com made the time to talk about Luis Bunuel’s LOS OLVIDADOS. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/ale...

With her award-winning first feature BLUE HERON screening at TIFF this week, it felt like a good time to re-post @sophyromvari.bsky.social's 2018 episode, tackling Kirsten Johnson's brilliant CAMERAPERSON. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/fla...

Before his gloriously wild F*CK MY SON! makes its world premiere at TIFF's Midnight Madness Wednesday, Todd Rohal celebrates underground filmmaker George Kuchar’s cri de coeur HOLD ME WHILE I'M NAKED. On all podcast platforms and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/tod...

Before NIKA AND MADISON has its world premiere at TIFF on Sunday, writer-director Eva Thomas pays tribute to the tender soul and gigantic heart of @barryjenkins.bsky.social’s Oscar-winning MOONLIGHT. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/eva...

Before his first feature LITTLE LORRAINE premieres at TIFF this Friday, writer-director Andy Hines celebrates Jonathan Glazer’s 2000 breakout SEXY BEAST -- the movie that made Ben Kingsley terrifying. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/and...

Put 'em up! This week, Catherine Legault -- whose new documentary LARRY (THEY/THEM) is now streaming across Canada on CBC Gem -- digs into Zachary Heinzerling’s prizewinning 2013 doc CUTIE AND THE BOXER. On all podcast providers and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/cat...

New episode! With her unsettling debut INEDIA now available on VOD across Canada, writer-director Liz Cairns is here to celebrate the unceasing empathy of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s breakout ROSETTA. On all podcast platforms, and streaming right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/liz...

With her new drama SWEET ANGEL BABY opening in select Canadian cities this Friday, writer-director Melanie Oates is here to talk about the exquisite sadness of Derek Cianfrance’s BLUE VALENTINE. (And she has a point.) On all podcast platforms, and right here: someoneelsesmovie.com/episodes/mel...

Now that SHOOK is in theaters across Canada, let's recirculate Amar Wala's episode from last September! Because it was really good, just like his movie.