In 1974, Just Jaeckin’s Emmanuelle marked a turning point for adult cinema ... but not every territory welcomed it with open arms. With his new documentary Emmanuelle in Ontario included on Severin Films’s brand new Saga Erotica: The Emmanuelle Collection boxed set, journalist and filmmaker Eric Veillette joins your genial host Norm Wilner to discuss the film and its very Canadian controversy.
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Tasha Hubbard on Winter's Bone
Documentarian Tasha Hubbard, whose first dramatic feature Meadowlarks opens across Canada this Friday, November 28th, credits Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone – the 2010 drama that introduced the world to Jennifer Lawrence as an Ozark teenager trying to save her family from ruin by finding her vanished father – as one of the reasons she became a filmmaker. Your genial host Norm Wilner is here to find out why.
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Barry Hertz on Fast Five
Film critic and author Barry Hertz, whose new book Welcome to the Family unpacks the history of the Fast & Furious movies, is here to talk about Fast Five, the beloved 2011 chapter where director Justin Lin introduced Vin Diesel and Paul Walker to a whole new level of motorized mayhem – and supercharged the franchise. Your genial host Norm Wilner can’t really argue with the choice.
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Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese on Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed
Writer-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese, whose animated sci-fi comedy Lesbian Space Princess is in theaters now, step up for Raja Gosnell’s 2004 live-action sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed – which, your genial host Norm Wilner is surprised to discover, holds up pretty well two decades later.
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Guillaume Marbeck on Breathless
Actor Guillaume Marbeck plays Jean-Luc Godard in Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, so he has a unique perspective on Godard’s revolutionary first feature Breathless – which, it just so happens, Nouvelle Vague is all about. Your genial host Norm Wilner cannot thank Winnie Wong enough for coming up with this concept.
SOMEONE ELSE’S MOVIE is just what it says on the label: Each week, an actor, director, screenwriter, critic or industry observer will discuss a film that he or she admires, but had no hand in making. Hosted as genially as possible by Norm Wilner.
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