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In advance of her new documentary The Theft screening at the Windsor International Film Festival next Tuesday, November 3rd, director Aisha Jamal picked a Halloween treat for you: Ana Lily Amirpour’s 2014 breakout A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Your genial host Norm Wilner is on his best behavior.

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With her new show Cassie Workman is Witchy AF rolling out on YouTube, actor and comedian Cassie Workman is here to throw a little love at Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, the Netflix movie where Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams sing some really great songs. Your genial host Norm Wilner is always happy to explore the Dan Stevens Cinematic Universe.

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This week, Late Fame director Kent Jones marks his film’s home release with a celebration of The Passenger, Michelangelo Antonioni’s fascinatingly opaque 1975 drama starring Jack Nicholson as a lost man who finds purpose in a new identity – for a while, anyway. Your genial host Norm Wilner invites you to ride along.

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As Late Fame arrives on Blu-ray and VOD, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Samy Burch is here to discuss her love for Fred Schepisi’s 1993 adaptation of John Guare’s award-winning play Six Degrees of Separation, a film that’s sort of fallen through the cracks over the decades. Your genial host Norm Wilner is very glad to have her.

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With their first feature A Breed Apart launching its theatrical run this Saturday, October 3rd, at Toronto’s Revue Cinema, writer-directors Adam Belanger and David Lafontaine stop by to celebrate Ken Loach’s devastating coming-of-age drama Kes. Your genial host Norm Wilner -- who'll be moderating the post-screening Q&A -- is ready to hit the North.

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With his new Godspell documentary You Had to Be There rolling across North America, Emmy-winning documentarian Nick Davis is here to share the love for another cultural milestone of the early ‘70s: Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s greatest collaboration. Your genial host Norm Wilner is so happy he did.

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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Severin Films, co-founder and president David Gregory drops in to talk about one of his favorite recent releases: Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s charming dystopian comedy about true love and cannibalism. Your genial host Norm Wilner has such fond memories of this one.

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One more TIFF episode! This one features Quebec writer-director Alexandre Franchi, whose third feature L’Autre makes its world premiere tonight at the festival. And he’s here to talk about the endless allure of Alain Resnais’ avant-garde breakthrough Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Your genial host Norm Wilner had a very similar experience.

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With her first documentary feature Still Night, Burning House making its world premiere at TIFF on Saturday, award-winning filmmaker Carol Nguyen stops by to talk about Tampopo, and how one scene from Juzo Itami’s 1985 "ramen western" introduced her to a whole new world of cinema. Your genial host Norm Wilner regrets not eating before recording this episode.

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Before his challenging new film Nobody’s Violence has its North American premiere at TIFF this Friday, September 11th, Quebecois writer-director Denis Cote is here to ponder the unanswerable questions of Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English-language feature, Blow-Up and maybe reflect on his own auterist perspective a little. Your genial host Norm Wilner is really glad he gets to do this.

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As she readies her new film Armageddon Road for its Toronto premiere at the Revue Cinema this Thursday and Friday, writer-director Karen Lam pauses to celebrate the power of Martin McDonagh’s first feature In Bruges, in which the Irish auteur first discovered the anti-chemistry of Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Your genial host Norm Wilner has a confession to make about this one.

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Screenwriter, producer and now author Aaron Barnett – whose 30th anniversary novelization of Matthew Bright’s cult thriller Freeway is available this Sunday, August 30th, from Echo On Publications – is here to celebrate Phil Joanou’s State of Grace, a magnificent mob thriller that got steamrolled by Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas in September 1990. Your genial host Norm Wilner has room in his heart for both of them.

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As his new series American Hostage makes its way towards a world premiere at TIFF, actor, comedian and makeup effects artist Aaron Merke stops in to talk about The Ladykillers – the original 1955 Ealing Studios comedy where Alec Guinness and a crew of wrong’uns plot the perfect heist, only to be foiled by a little old lady. Your genial host Norm Wilner is impressed by how much ground we cover in this one.

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Her new documentary The Art of Adventure is now available on VOD and streaming on Hollywood Suite in Canada, so filmmaker Alison Reid drops by to share her love for Jon Avnet’s 1991 drama Fried Green Tomatoes. Your genial host Norm Wilner is still trying to figure out why his preview audience rejected it so violently.

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With his aristocratic comedy Savage House now available on digital and on demand, writer-director Peter Glanz is here to venture into the depths of Joel and Ethan Coen’s unquantifiable Hollywood nightmare Barton Fink. Your genial host Norm Wilner is already quite well-acquainted with the life of the mind, thank you.

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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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This week, writer-director Alex Noyer – whose folk-horror creepshow Love Is the Monster is newly available on VOD – asks whether Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead is a faithful remake of the George A. Romero classic, or something entirely new. Your genial host Norm Wilner is very interested in the answer.

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His new film Islands is now on digital and on demand, and writer-director Jan-Ole Gerster is here to dig into a favorite thriller: Martin Scorsese’s  revolutionary hit Taxi Driver. Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t believe no one’s ever picked this one before.

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With her novel This Is Not a Test now a movie streaming on Shudder in the US and available on VOD in Canada, author Courtney Summers is here to howl about The Wolf of Snow Hollow, in which writer-director Jim Cummings plays a small-town deputy trying to solve a spate of violent murders while also dealing with his chaotic personal life. Your genial host Norm Wilner strongly suggests you watch the movie before listening to this episode.

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With his ‘80s dramedy This Too Shall Pass now streaming in the US and Canada, writer-director Rob Grant wants to celebrate Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me, the coming-of-age movie that changed everyone’s idea of what “a Stephen King movie” could look like. Your genial host Norm Wilner is embracing the melancholy on this one.

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With her first feature Forastera opening at Film Forum in New York this Friday, writer-director Lucía Aleñar Iglesias is here to explore the hidden depths of Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman, the 2021 drama about a little girl who copes with her grandmother’s death by making a new friend: Her own mother, when she was also eight years old. Your genial host Norm Wilner wants you to know it’s simpler than it sounds.

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With her hybrid documentary Modern Whore now available on digital and on demand, and screening this Thursday in Toronto at TIFF Lightbox, director Nicole Bazuin takes some time to celebrate the wild creative freedoms of The Great Muppet Caper – the one where Kermit and Fozzie play identical twins, and Miss Piggy rides a motorcycle. Your genial host Norm Wilner is so glad someone finally brought the Muppets to the podcast.

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With their charming indie The Travel Companion rolling through its US release, directors and co-writers Travis Wood and Alex Mallis are here to ponder the paradoxes and metaphors of Hong Sang-soo’s 2011 drama The Day He Arrives. Your genial host Norm Wilner is really happy he could drop this one right after the Tropical Malady episode, for reasons that will become apparent.

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It’s a Friday bonus episode! And we’re joined by writer-director Bretten Hannam, whose new film At the Place of Ghosts opens across Canada today, for a look at Apitchatpong Weerasethakul’s beguiling 2004 breakout Tropical Malady. Your genial host Norm Wilner is sorry about all the table noises, we recorded this one in-person during TIFF.

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With his new film Two Pianos now playing in New York and Los Angeles, award-winning French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin is here to discuss a film he loves with his whole heart: Judd Apatow’s Funny People, the one where Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen play comedians grappling with life, death and jokes. Your genial host Norm Wilner truly did not see this coming.

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With his latest drama Erupcja – starring Charli XCX as a young woman adrift in Warsaw – now playing select North American theaters, indie filmmaker Pete Ohs is here to explore the evocative world of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, about a very polite collision of cultures in a Japanese mountain village. Your genial host Norm Wilner also thinks this was one of the best films of 2024.

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With her award-winning first feature Blue Heron rolling into theatrical release, writer-director Sophy Romvari returns to the podcast to unpack Martha Coolidge’s devastating 1975 documentary Not a Pretty Picture, in which Coolidge enlisted a group of actors to re-create her own sexual assault and explored the effect the project has on her cast, and herself. Your genial host Norm Wilner has never seen anything like it.

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With the East Coast drama Little Lorraine starting its Canadian theatrical run this Friday, April 17th, actor Auden Thornton is here to discuss Sarah Polley’s first feature Away from Her, and unpack the layers of emotion and loss running through it. Your genial host Norm Wilner had to brace himself for this one.

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With his goopy, giddy contagion thriller Cold Storage now available on digital and on demand, director Jonny Campbell takes a swing at Mike Hodges’ stylish crime classic Get Carter – you know, the one where Michael Caine rampages through the Newcastle underworld. Your genial host Norm Wilner is bloody delighted to have this as our 600th episode. 

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Now that his new creeper The Mortuary Assistant is streaming on Shudder, director Jeremiah Kipp ventures into the sinister funeral home of Don Coscarelli’s midnight horror classic Phantasm. Your genial host Norm Wilner isn’t worried about those silver spheres at all.

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With her new drama Maya and Samar now in theaters across Canada, director Anita Doron invites us to fall under the spell of Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn, about the last screening at a grand old Taipei movie house. Your genial host Norm Wilner takes this one very personally.

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It’s our 11th anniversary, and critic and author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas – whose 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror is now a documentary, and streaming on Shudder this Friday – is here to discuss Abel Ferrara and Zoe Tamerlis Lund’s unforgettable Ms. 45, which rewrote the rules of the rape-revenge thriller. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been looking forward to this one for a while.

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The Oscars are tomorrow night, and Montreal filmmaker Alison McAlpine will be there with perfectly a strangeness, which is nominated for Best Documentary Short Film. But first, she wanted to talk about Maren Ade’s epic father-daughter dramedy Toni Erdmann. Your genial host Norm Wilner put his false teeth aside for this one.

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It’s kind of weird that no one’s brought George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead onto the show in eleven years, right? Writer, actor and comedian Jon Blair thought so too, so in advance of premiering A Comedy Show at the End of the World at TO Sketchfest on Friday, he’s here to really sink his teeth into the zombie picture that changed movies forever. Your genial host Norm Wilner can't wait.

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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 Oscar-winning horror procedural The Silence of the Lambs, starting with her first, entirely inappropriate experience of it. Your genial host Norm Wilner promises there is not a single Chianti joke in this entire episode.

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With her semiautobiographical family study Jimpa rolling through theaters in the US and Canada, writer-director Sophie Hyde is here to plumb the depths of Andrew Haigh’s moody masterpiece All of Us Strangers. Your genial host Norm Wilner has been hoping someone would pick this one.

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With his new documentary Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It opening in New York on Friday, veteran director Paris Barclay is here to unpack Stanley Kramer’s 1967 hot-button love story Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner – a picture he knows inside and out. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to take it in.

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Actor and filmmaker Joan Chen has been racking up awards for her performance in Xiaodan He’s Montreal, My Beautiful; now that it’s opening across Canada on Friday, February 13th, she’s here to talk about how much she loves Julian Schnabel’s 2007 drama The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Your genial host Norm Wilner regrets that we only had half an hour for this one.

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Writer-director Blake Winston Rice – whose latest short film Disc is playing this week in the Clemont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – is so enraptured by Chloe Zhao’s swooning historical drama Hamnet that he had to bring it onto the show. Your genial host Norm Wilner can see how that could happen.

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Rising actor Emmanuel Kabongo – who both produces and stars in the new thriller Sway, opening in Toronto on Friday – counts Denzel Washington’s Oscar-winning performance in Training Day as one of the formative experiences of his young life, so Antoine Fuqua’s 2001 thriller was his first choice for the podcast. Your genial host Norm Wilner can see how that could happen.

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With his first dramatic feature The Well opening across Canada on Friday, Oscar- and Emmy-nominated director Hubert Davis is here to talk about Top Gun, the 1986 blockbuster that defined commercial American moviemaking for a decade – and made Tom Cruise a movie star for a lot longer. Your genial host Norm Wilner has never felt the need for speed, but he can see the appeal.

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Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig has his own show these days, and in honor of Tubby being named one of Apple and Amazon’s Podcasts of 2025, here's his episode on Peter Yates’ masterful 1973 crime drama The Friends of Eddie Coyle, starring Robert Mitchum as a low-level Boston mobster contemplating flipping on his associates to avoid a jail sentence. Jeez, your genial host Norm Wilner sounded so much younger in 2015 …

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In memory of the late Rob Reiner, we’re revisiting two of his best-beloved films: This week, it’s Allana Harkin’s 2017 celebration of When Harry Met Sally, the romantic comedy that gave us Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan and Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby at their most effortlessly charming – and minted Nora Ephron as a genre-defining screenwriter. Your genial host Norm Wilner had forgotten all about the massive rainstorm halfway through the episode.

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To honor the late Rob Reiner, we’re revisiting two of his best-beloved films: This week, from early 2022, actor Kristin Booth celebrates the wide-open heart of his magical, impossibly entertaining The Princess Bride. We need this, folks. Your genial host Norm Wilner is really getting tired of the Pit of Despair.

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With her latest movie Code 3 on digital and on demand this Friday, December 19th, actor Aimee Carrero is here to celebrate Mike Nichols’ (and Elaine May’s) 1996 version of The Birdcage, with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a gay couple trying to trick the conservative parents of their son’s fiancee into thinking they’re a nice, normal couple – which, of course, they are. Your genial host Norm Wilner wishes Gene Hackman had done more comedies.

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With his critically beloved debut drama Eephus now on VOD and streaming on Mubi, writer-director Carson Lund stops in to share his love of Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop, the existential cross-country race drama with James Taylor, Dennis Wilson and Warren Oates that confounded and enthralled audiences in 1971. Your genial host Norm Wilner is all about the momentum, man.

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