I’ve met Wayne Wang a few  times over the years, usually when we bump into one another at TIFF — he’s a lovely guy, and he makes interesting movies, and it’s weird that it took more than three decades for us to sit down together.

I guess we still haven’t, technically, but his episode of Someone Else’s Movie totally counts as a conversation — and it’s a good one, as he discusses the influence of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles on his excellent new drama Coming Home Again, which I saw at TIFF last year and which is finally coming out as a virtual release in the US and a Vimeo rental here in Canada.

And it turns out the comparison holds; Akerman’s radical experiment in banality does echo through Wayne’s movie in ways both obvious and subtle. We talked about that, and somehow also about Ralph Fiennes doing yoga every morning on Maid in Manhattan. And yes, I’d forgotten that Wayne Wang directed Maid in Manhattan. I bet you did too.

Listen already! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play and Stitcher and get the episode immediately, or download it directly from the web.  And then maybe check out today’s NOW What, in which Richard Trapunski and ACORN Canada’s Alejandra Ruiz Vargas talk about closing the digital divide that keeps internet access from the people who might need it the most.

Also! Writing! Here’s this week’s What to Watch, featuring reviews aplenty, as well as my full thoughts on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and a Five-to-See for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, which got underway yesterday. And if you missed it last week, my review of Ben Wheatley’s Rebecca is just as valid now that the movie’s available on Netflix.

I got the date wrong in last week’s post. Sorry about that.