Cinema From The Spectrum: Recent Episodes
Jaime Rebanal
Jaime brings in some gems from their collection for Jon to watch. In this episode, Jaime brought in Secrets & Lies and Lone Star.
Jaime and Jon travel to Egypt in this edition of Cinema from the Spectrum All Around the World!
In this episode, the films Cairo Station and Sheikh Jackson are covered.
The Women in Action series at TIFF concludes with Jon and Jaime talking about Terminator 2, Run Lola Run, and Charlie's Angels!
Jaime and Jon take you on a journey through the films of Michelle Yeoh - in this episode the following films are covered:
Royal Warriors
The Heroic Trio
Executioners
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Jaime and Jon cover TIFF's ongoing Women in Action series: having caught screenings of Mulan, Prey, and a 35mm screening of La Femme Nikita!
This month's edition of Cinema from the Spectrum all around the world enters the world of Senegalese cinema!
Join Jaime and Jon as they discuss Ousmane Sembène's Mandabi and Mati Diop's Atlantics.
Jaime and Jon go through all the Mad Max movies, lining all the way up to Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga!
One of the most iconic director duos of all time, Jaime and Jon take you through the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Jaime and Jon enter the realms of Brazilian cinema with Hector Babenco's Pixote and Fernando Meirelles's Oscar-nominated City of God.
Jaime and Jon venture into the realm of Southeast Asian cinema - specifically, Indonesia. In this episode, they cover Usmar Ismail's After the Curfew and Gareth Evans's Merantau.
Jaime and Jon sit down with each other after seeing George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead in 3D!
On the 50th anniversary of The Godfather Part II, Jaime and Jon look back at Francis Ford Coppola's career and history-defining masterpieces.
In the first of our All Around the World series, Jaime and Jon cover cinema old and new from Poland.
In this episode, the films covered are Andrzej Wajda's Ashes and Diamonds and Jerzy Skolimowski's EO.
Jaime and Jon talk about the results of the Oscars this year. Among the hot topics we've covered included whether or not Oppenheimer deserved Best Picture, the debate between whether Emma Stone or Lily Gladstone should have won Best Actress, or Jonathan Glazer's controversial acceptance speech.
The last batch of Best Picture nominees concerns an author fighting to make his voice heard, even in a time where "diverse voices" are supposedly being more amplified - and the ordinary life of a captain whose abode is built right next to Auschwitz concentration camp.
Listen here to find out what Jaime and Jon have to say about American Fiction and The Zone of Interest.
A love from a past, and a bizarre Frankenstein-esque sex comedy. These films are up for Best Picture, what else can we say?
Listen in to find out what Jaime and Jon thought of Past Lives and Poor Things.
Bradley Cooper brings us his vision of Leonard Bernstein, and Paul Giamatti schools us as a strict teacher at Barton Academy in a comedy echoing the 1970's works of Hal Ashby.
Listen to Jaime and Jon discuss Maestro and The Holdovers here!
The double bill that made the summer of 2023 has achieved a record 21 Academy Award nominations! One may even win Best Picture.
But which is the better film? Listen to find out what Jaime and Jon have to say about Barbie and Oppenheimer.
In looking back at a crucial and horrifying event in America's history, pertaining to the country's relationship with Indigenous citizens, Martin Scorsese delivers an unflinching look at this point in time in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Listen to Jaime and Jon's discussion about the film here.
Is 50 Cent's P.I.M.P. a "deeply misogynistic song"? Is the court system in France every bit as sensationalist like we know it is in America? Jaime and Jon talk about all these and more, when discussing the Palme d'Or winning film by Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall.
Jaime shares memories of going to TIFF once again last year, even in a belated talk. This goes from seeing a lot more movies compared to previous years, and some otherwise awkward Q&A experiences.
Continuing on from the previous Magnificent 70mm episode, Jaime and Jon talk about seeing Lawrence of Arabia (a first watch for Jon!) and Nope on 70mm prints.
(spoiler warning for Nope!)
As part of Jon and Jaime's final Cinema from the Spectrum episodes for 2023, the two of them talk about the experiences of watching films on 70mm. In the first of a two-part episode, the two of them talk about the 70mm prints of Boogie Nights and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
It's the season of Noirvember again! Jaime and Jon take you back through some of the most iconic film noir titles of all time in this year's edition of Noirvember.
The films covered:
- Detour
- The Third Man
- Branded to Kill
- Fargo
For this edition of Jaime and Jon's Horror Corner, we looked back at a Category III film from Hong Kong, and a completely disorienting ride through schizophrenia.
With her new film Women Talking having been nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture, Jaime talked with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sarah Polley about the process behind its making and what she hopes most for audiences to take away from the film. The film, based on Miriam Toews's novel of the same name, tells a story inspired by the real-life tragedy within the Manitoba Colony, a Mennonite colony in Bolivia, in which many women and young girls were sexually assaulted. For writing the film, Polley received her second Academy Award nomination (and first win) for Best Adapted Screenplay.
(This conversation was recorded in December.)
For Noirvember, Jaime and Jon take a look at Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress and Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity.
Jaime and Jon take a look at a horror film by one of the most notable Canadian filmmakers, David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers!
Jaime and Jon look back through TIFF 2022, after seeing a sizeable amount of movies this year. In this episode, the films covered are:
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Triangle of Sadness
- Empire of Light
- The Fabelmans
- Women Talking
- No Bears
Jaime and Jon are back, covering three films that are bound to make waves at the Oscars this year: Drive My Car, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story.
For the month of November, Jaime talks about film noir and neo noir, and what makes these movies great!
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Jaime Rebanal and Jonathan Kirkwood sit down to talk about Julia Ducournau's Titane, which became the first horror film to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Jaime recaps the experience of returning back to a movie theater for the first time in months, with opinions on Old, The Suicide Squad, and The Green Knight.
With the election day results having been called so much later than planned in the United States, Jaime Rebanal looks back at movies that cover elections - and discusses what we can learn from them going into the future - from films like Election and All the President's Men to Borat.
For Halloween, Jaime looks back at the Dracula movies and talks about who it was that gave the best performance as Dracula - from the old Hollywood eras into modern interpretations.
Joined by guest speaker Mel Tran, Jaime Rebanal looks through the long legacy of the renowned animation studio, covering the early works of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, to their eventual Academy Award-winning turn with Spirited Away.
In this episode, Jaime Rebanal covers the long history of black representation in cinema - from the silent era all the way into the films of today. Among the films that are covered include the works of Oscar Micheaux, Spike Lee, Charles Burnett, Barry Jenkins, and Jordan Peele.
Bong Joon-ho's Parasite had won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 2019 and became the first film not in the English language to receive the Academy Award for Best Picture. In this episode, Jaime Rebanal is joined by Jonathan Kirkwood where we talk about everything that signifies its Best Picture win is one that it has earned all the way through.
SPOILER WARNING: This episode talks extensively about many major plot elements that spoil the film. If you have not seen Parasite, we highly recommend you change that before listening to this.
The Oscars on Sunday, but how do Jaime Rebanal and Jonathan Kirkwood feel about the nominees this year? Find out here.
Martin Scorsese's latest film The Irishman is the director's longest film yet, and it will be viewed by many on Netflix soon. Joined by Jonathan Kirkwood, he and Jaime Rebanal talk about the experience of watching the film in theaters versus Netflix, as well as Martin Scorsese's relationship with the popularity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Months later, Jaime Rebanal talks again about the experience of being at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, having been a press member for the second year in a row.
If you are feeling the blues from your first week at college, these movies should brighten your spirits!
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