Contra Zoom Pod

On this episode we cover the 2020 imagineNATIVE film festival, which celebrates the best Indigenous filmmaking from around the world! We are joined by Naomi Wada Platt, a YouTube film reviewer who covers film in both English and Japanese. We talk about Inconvenient Indian, Monkey Beach, Brother, I Cry, The Legend of Baron To'a and Love and Fury.

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Make/Remake examines how two films that share the same story. It isn't about what film was better or worse, but how they are similar and different while following the same arcs. In this episode we look at Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 Best Picture winning film Rebecca and this year remake directed by Ben Wheatley. Both films tell the story of a young woman who marries a widower and when they return to his seaside estate we learn that his first wife's mysterious death is still haunting everyone that lives there. Joining Dakota is Rachel Ho an online film reviewer. 

Time Stamps

Similarities 12:00-42:00

Differences 42:00-1:27:00

Follow Rachel on Twitter @_rachelkh.

For more Rebecca content, listen to 7: From Wings to Birdman 1938-1947 Part 2, 8: Guillermo del Toro, Rebecca and Alfred Hitchcock and 66: Contra Zoom Presents… Hitchcock.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Nathan Sizemore and Katey Cottrill return to the show as we share some Halloween movie recommendations. The I Hope you Suffer podcast hosts and Dakota share some classic horror, modern horror and comedy horror picks along with Nathan and Katey talking about a movie they have covered on their show.

Classic Horror: Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby and The Uninvited

Modern Horror: Impetigor, Let The Right One In and Cronos

Comedy Horror: Tusk, Serial Mom and Corpse Bride

IHYS Pick: Manborg

Follow IHYS on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to their Pateron for great bonus content. Follow Nathan and Katey for even more excellent stuff. 

Check out episode 110: Hot Docs at Home to hear the last episode that Nathan and Katey guested on.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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On this episode I chat with Joshua Demers, the writer and director of the new Canadian political satire Québexit. The film was originally reviewed on episode 125: Cinefest Sudbury 2020. Here Joshua discusses how important language is to the Canadian identity, getting support from his two co-writers to help craft a better story the reflects more realities of living in Canada and much more. Québexit currently is making the festival rounds and hopes to have a distribution deal in the near future so more people can watch it. 

Check out the trailer for Québexit. 

Joshua recommends the 2002 Canadian film The Bay of Love and Sorrows and the 2014 book The Morning After.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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An episode more than five years in the making, after ranking the Best Picture winners decade by decade starting from episode 1 with Wings in 1927 going all the way up to the end of decade nine, episode 123, with The Shape of Water in 2017. Stephanie Prior joins the show as we cover the most and least deserving winners, the oddest and overrated winners and much more. 

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Contra Zoom is proudly presented by Aesthetic Magazine.

We cover one of the largest film festivals in Canada with the 2020 edition of Cinefest Sudbury that offered a digital package for viewers. Stephanie Prior joins the show as we talk about Lucky Grandma, My Salinger Year, Quebexit, Mogul Mowgli, Black Bear, Radioactive and Another Round. They also give out their own awards to Best Film, Best Actor and Best Actress. 

Keyboard Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland Story screened at the festival and was previously reviewed on the Hot Docs at Home episode.

Another Round was also reviewed on our TIFF 2020 Wrapup episode.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Contra Zoom is proudly presented by Aesthetic Magazine. 

On this episode we recap the 45th Toronto International Film Festival. We are joined by film lovers John Brody and Maria Escribano who describe the experience of attending a digital festival, their favourite films that they saw, and the People's Choice Winner Nomadland, which instantly is the front runner for Best Picture at next year's Oscars. 

Films discussed include Nomadland, Another Round, Concrete Cowboy, One Night In Miami, Falling, The Father and Good Joe Bell, which all appeared on my TIFF Preview episode from a few weeks back. Other films talked about were The Way I See It, Gaza mon amour, Under The Open Sky and Shadow in the Cloud. 

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Contra Zoom is proudly presented by Aesthetic Magazine.

Continuing the long running series chronicling every Best Picture winner and ranking them decade by decade, Dakota is joined by Stephanie Prior to break down the winners from 2008-2017. On this episode they countdown numbers 5-1 and give out their awards for best performances and film of the decade. If you missed Part 1, click HERE to listen. 

Timestamps:

5. 12 Years a Slave 3:30-18:30

4. Argo 19:00-31:00

3. The Shape of Water 31:00-41:00

2. Moonlight 41:00-55:00

1. Spotlight 55:00-1:06:00

Awards 1:06:00-1:18:00

Best Supporting Actress - Janelle Monae (Steph), Naomie Harris (Dakota)

Best Supporting Actor - Richard Jenkins (Steph), Mark Ruffalo (Dakota)

Best Actress - Bérénice Bejo (Steph), Sally Hawkins (Dakota)

Best Actor - Michael Keaton (Steph + Dakota)

Best Picture - Spotlight (Steph), Moonlight (Dakota)

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Contra Zoom is proudly presented by Aesthetic Magazine.

Continuing the long running series chronicling every Best Picture winner and ranking them decade by decade, Dakota is joined by Stephanie Prior to break down the winners from 2008-2017. On this episode they countdown numbers 10-6 with part 2 coming out in one week to finish off the decade.

Timestamps:

10: The Hurt Locker 3:00-9:30

9. Slumdog Millionaire 9:30-17:00

8. The King's Speech 17:30-23:30

7. Birdman 23:30-32:30

6. The Artist 32:30-40:00

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Contra Zoom is proudly presented by Aesthetic Magazine.

The Toronto International Film Festival of 2020 is going to be a hybrid mixture of traditional screenings, mixed with digital and drive-in ones too. We preview then 10 films we're most excited about for this year. Here you can find a complete list of movies being shown and screening times.

Here are a list of movies we preview: Ammonite, Another Round, Beans, Concrete Cowboy, Falling, The Father, Good Joe Bell, MLK/FBI, Nomadland and One Night in Miami. Honourable Mentions include Underplayed, David Byrne's American Utopia, The Water Man and Bruised. 

You can read our preview originally found on Aesthetic Magazine.

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Thank you Eric and Kevin Smale for creating the awesome theme music and Stephanie Prior for designing the logo.

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Contra Zoom is proudly presented by Aesthetic Magazine.