It’s not exactly a holiday episode, but this week’s Someone Else’s Movie does have the feel of a warm fireside conversation — mainly because there actually was a fire going in the corner of the studio, but also because my guest is someone I’ve known for a very long time.

My film school buddy Alexandra Hooper — now a Toronto set decoration buyer who works on giant things like The Expanse and The Shape of Water and Downsizing — joins me to talk about Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, which we saw together thirty years ago and which she credits with helping her figure out what she wanted to do with her life. So that’s nice.

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