This week’s episode of Someone Else’s Movie has been in the works almost since the day I launched the show: I know Sarah Polley well enough to know she’d bring an artful perspective to any movie she chose, and over the years we considered a few different titles as we tried to hammer down a recording time.

In the end, she picked a film I would never have expected: Terrence Malick’s searching war drama The Thin Red Line, which turns out to be the movie that literally changed the course of her career — and a movie I hadn’t really thought about since I saw it all the way back in 1998. So we revisited it together — back when you could still do that — and recorded the podcast in April or May.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get the episode immediately, or download it directly from the web. And then watch A Hidden Life. It’s goddamn transcendent.

Once you’ve done all of that, feel free to move on to my other stuff, which includes the standard two episodes of NOW What — Friday’s extension of our cover package on Toronto’s green recovery, and today’s conversation with Jennifer Podemski about her new project, The Shine Network — as well as our latest what-to-watch guide, and the remainder of my TIFF reviews.

I work a lot, you know.