Contra Zoom Pod

On August 16th 1977 Elvis Presley died, marking the 46th anniversary of his untimely passing. Currently The Criterion Channel has a 6 movie collection available to stream. We discuss three of the films, King Creole, Wild in the Country and Viva Las Vegas. We talk about Elvis' acting abilities, how his music is incorporated and whether or not his movies deserve a reevaluation from the film community.

Read Rachel's interview with Steve Binder, the director of the famous 1968 comeback special on Exclaim!

Read Rachel's review Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback on POV Magazine.

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For the third year in a row we are covering Montreal's Fantasia Film Festival, which celebrates the best in horror and genre cinema with an emphasis on international movies. We review A Disturbance in the Force: How The Star Wars Holiday Special Happened, Talk To Me, river, With Love and a Major Organ and Sometimes I Think About Dying. We also have some honourable mentions including Where The Devil Roams, Baby Assassins 2 Babies and It Lives Inside.

Watch Dakota's interview with the filmmakers behind Satan Wants You and Where the Devil Roams.

Read Rachel's interview with Danny and Michael Philippou, the directors of Talk To Me.

Read Dakota's reviews of Satan Wants You⁠ from Hot Docs earlier this year, and ⁠Where The Devil Roams⁠, river⁠, ⁠A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened⁠ and ⁠Baby Assassins 2 Babies⁠.

Read Rachel's reviews of A Disturbance in the Force: How The Star Wars Holiday Special Happened, With Love and a Major Organ and Satan Wants You.

Listen to Awesome Friday's recap of Fantasia Festival.

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Fantasia Festival is still going on, but we had the chance to interview two sets of directors who had their films screening at this years fest! First up is Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor, the directors of Satan Wants You a documentary about the start of the Satanic Panic. Second is Toby Poser, John, Zelda and Lulu Adams the team behind Where the Devil Roams, about a murderous carnie family during the Depression Era.

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We continue our series going through the entire catalog of A24's films. On this episode we are looking at 2015's Ex Machina directed by Alex Garland. The film follows Oscar Issac as a billionaire tech CEO who invites his employee, Domhnall Gleeson, to administer a Turing Test. The subject is Ava, played by Alicia Vikander, a robot that may or may not have human consciousness. We have Canadian writer and director Jeremy LaLonde, best known for films such as Ashgrove and James vs His Future Self come on to discuss the film. If you listen to the podcast on either Spotify or YouTube, we have included the video version of the show too!

Our double bill pairings include Ashgrove (Dakota), Minority Report (Rachel) and Her (Jeremy). See our complete A24 Double Bill Pairings on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠⁠.

If you haven't heard our deep dive into the origins of A24, listen to episode ⁠⁠⁠⁠108: A History of A24 Films⁠⁠⁠⁠ and our last episode in this series episode 239: A24 Retrospective - Cut Bank.

Follow Jeremy on Twitter and Instagram. Subscribe to his podcast Black Hole Films, and his plant based cooking channel PB With J. Visit his personal website for more information on his work.

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Make/Remake examines how two films that share the same story. Not to say what film was better or worse, but how they are similar and different while following the same arcs. This time we are looking at the 1951 film The Day The Earth Stood Still directed by Robert Wise and the 2008 remake also called The Day The Earth Stood Still directed by Scott Derickson. Check out our past ⁠Make/Remake⁠'s for more great comparison episodes and see the ⁠Letterboxd⁠ list.

Watch Brodie's short film ⁠The Gift⁠ that he wrote and follow him on ⁠Twitter⁠.

Read Rachel's Barbenheimer and Beyond: Hollywood's Greatest Box Office Showdowns on Exclaim! Follow Rachel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, bookmark ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Asian Cut⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check out her ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more great content.

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A few weeks ago CBC released a poll conducted by them where industry professionals and critics voted to help make a list of The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians. Both Dakota and Rachel voted on the list, with Rachel even writing in praise of the #6 movie Crash. Joining the show to talk about the list and who they also voted for is Matthew Simpson and Taylor Beaumont.

Listen to episode 45: Canadian Filmmakers where we discuss a similar subject.

Check out Taylor's massive list of great Canadian films on Letterboxd.

Read the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time as named by TIFF back in 2015.

Listen to ⁠⁠Awesome Friday⁠⁠ and follow them on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ as well as Matthew's personal ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ account and his new ⁠website⁠.

Read Taylor's work at For Reel and follow him on Twitter and Instagram.

Read Rachel's article Tom Cruise's 5 Best 'Mission: Impossible' Stunts on Exclaim! Follow Rachel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, bookmark ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Asian Cut⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check out her ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more great reviews.

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It is Dakota's birthday week, and we continue the trend of picking a category and choosing our favourites from it. In 2020 there was 114: 30 Films in 30 Years, in 2021 it was 157: Best Films Through the Decades and in 2022 it was 199: Best Films by Genre. This year we are naming our 10 favourite films by language. We cover four specific languages, one country, two regions and three wildcards! We name both our picks and runners-up.

See our picks below (Dakota’s first, then Rachel’s)!

French: Incendies and Polytechnique

Spanish: Pan's Labyrinth

Italian: Bicycle Thieves and La Dolce Vita

Cantonese or Mandarin: In the Mood for Love and Septet: The Story of Hong Kong

Middle East Region: Capernaum and Subtraction

Nordic Region: The Worst Person in the World and Speak No Evil

African Wildcard: Timbuktu and Saloum

Asian Wildcard: Pather Panchali and Old Boy

European Wildcard: Nosferatu the Vampyre and M

Check out our Letterboxd list to see our full list including our runner up's.

Listen to episodes mentioned on the podcast 69: Make/Remake Terminal Station and Indiscretion of an American Wife, 214: A Trilogy of Nosferatu’s.

Watch Kogonada's video essay What Is Neorealism? to see his breakdown of the differences between Terminal Station and Indiscretion of and American Wife.

Why Iran creates some of the world’s best films.

Read Rachel's interview with Adele Lim the director of Joy Ride on The Asian Cut. Follow Rachel on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠, bookmark ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Asian Cut⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and check out her ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more great reviews.

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For the 3rd year in a row we cover the Toronto Japanese Film Festival and talk about movies we saw. They include Plan 75, BL Metamorphosis, Roleless, and Father of the Milky Way Railroad.

Read Jericho Tadeo's original review of Plan 75 when it was screened at TIFF last year on The Asian Cut.

Both Dakota and Rachel participated in CBC's The 50 Greatest Films Directed by Canadians and Rachel wrote in support of the #6 film, Crash.

Check out past episodes covering TJFF including 201: 2022 Toronto Japanese Film Festival and 155: Toronto Japanese Film Festival.

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In lieu of a full episode this week, we bring you the eighth in our series of bonus episodes, Better Know a Contributor, where we ask frequent guests of the show 10 Contra Zoom Pod movie questions so you can learn more about your favourite voices. On this show is Paulo Bautista, a man who wears many hats but some of the podcasts he hosts include the Oscars Death Race Podcast, Box Office Watch, Filmography in Focus, Yet Another Anime Podcast and Into the Aether Vortex. Dakota and Paulo talk about how Satoshi Kon is Paulo's favourite director, the mountain of "important" movies he hasn't seen yet, how Titanic and Forest Gump are his least favourite Best Picture winners and how The Tale of Princess Kaguya is not only an underrated movie but possible the best one produced by Studio Ghibli.

Check out previous Better Know a Contributor shows focusing on ⁠Dakota⁠, ⁠Rachel⁠, Pierre, ⁠Jeff⁠, ⁠Sammy⁠ and ⁠Stephanie⁠ to learn more about the extended CZP family.

Follow Paulo on ⁠Twitter⁠ and ⁠Letterboxd⁠.

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We're a little over halfway through 2023, so we decide to look at the best films of the year so far! Our titles are listed alphabetically, so they are not in order of our rankings. We also share our honourable mentions that just missed the cut!

Dakota's Top 5

Rachel's Top 5

Listen to Classic Movies Live review BlackBerry.

Listen to past episodes 238: Most Anticipated Movies of 2023 (previous discussion on Past Lives), 235: Hot Docs 2023 (with full review of Satan Wants You), 214: A Trilogy of Nosferatu’s and 49: History of the Dracul (previous shows reviewing iteration's of Dracula).

Check out Rachel's interview with Matt Johnson and Jay Baruchel from BlackBerry on Exclaim!

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