Vintage Cinema Rewind

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Vintage Cinema Rewind episodes

July 03, 2025 A Night to Remember (1958 - Britain) Deep Dive
Things have been better on Vintage Cinema Rewind. The iceberg has struck. The ship is sinking. The lifeboats are being boarded. As the clock ticks down and their time runs out, Blake and Michael commit their final hours to a Deep Dive of A Night to Remember. How does it resonate as a modern watch? How strong are the characters? And perhaps most significantly, how does it stack up against the much more beloved James Cameron version? Can they survive this ordeal? Or are our two hosts going down with the ship?

Where to watch: A Night to Remember - movie: watch streaming online
51 min
June 26, 2025 A Night to Remember (1958 - Britain) Primer
Stop us if you've heard this one before. The maiden voyage of the biggest ship ever constructed. A trip through iceberg-infested waters. People funneling to the lifeboats. That's right, before Jack and Rose and James Cameron's 1997 masterpiece, there was A Night to Remember--one of the first cinematic cracks at this particular disaster. Michael and Blake find themselves aboard the upper decks as the ship begins to sink. How will they cope with their predicament? Can they manage to save people? Or are their efforts all wet?

Where to watch: A Night to Remember - movie: watch streaming online
26 min
June 19, 2025 The Lift (1983 - Netherlands) Deep Dive
"These damn machines will be the death of us all some day!" It's a tale as old as time. Man versus Machine. Man versus Gravity. And Vintage Cinema Rewind versus the Airwaves. Blake and Jason (and Kelvin!) are back with a Deep Dive on the iconic Danish horror film: The Lift! As the elevator doors snap shut and darkness falls on our heroes, can they escape this coffin-shaped shoot in time? Or will they be mangled so thoroughly and so completely that all three of them will fit into a Danish pastry?

Full movie: https://youtu.be/2r7a_dQnsRk?si=GruIocD3_tzUJrYG

Where to watch: The Lift - movie: where to watch streaming online
43 min
June 12, 2025 The Lift (1983 - Netherlands) Primer
Vintage Cinema Rewind is back! And now, Blake and Jason are joined by the Debonair Darling from Denmark: Kelvin! This week's episode covers The Lift--an iconic 1983 science fiction film from the same country that combines everyone's two greatest fears: confined spaces and gravity. As an evil elevator terrorizes Amsterdam, can these three uncover the true culprit and stop this radioactive menace? Or are they all on a one-way trip to the ground floor?

Full movie: https://youtu.be/2r7a_dQnsRk?si=GruIocD3_tzUJrYG

Where to watch: The Lift - movie: where to watch streaming online
18 min
June 08, 2025 City of God (2002 - Brazil) Primer
On this week's Vintage Cinema Rewind, Blake and Michael take a trip to the City of God: where divinity is in short supply. They meet all sorts of characters, including Rocket, a studious child with dreams of a better life, Li'l Zé, a young man with a precocious appetite for blood, and Benny, who is too kind and too charismatic for his particular line of work. Join them as they sit back and watch as all these different stories and lives unfurl around them. Can these characters escape their bleak and oppressive lives? Or will the beast finally devour them?

Opening Scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QujbbyEUXjo
27 min
June 08, 2025 City of God (2002 - Brazil) Deep Dive
Things continue to unravel on Vintage Cinema Rewind's Deep Dive of City of God. As the streets run red with blood, powerful forces continue to conspire against each other. In one corner, we've got Li'l Dice: the city's most sadistic criminal. In the other corner we've got Knockout Ned: a reluctant crime lord. And somewhere between the two stands Rocket, armed only with his camera. Can the city survive this tumultuous gang war? Or are we all just chickens fleeing the knife?
1 hr 1 min
June 05, 2025 The Top 5 Movies of the 2020s (so far)
Have you ever stopped to consider the relentless onslaught of time? The inevitable death-march of the years? The ticking of the clock counting down towards to our own untimely demise? Well. Now that the mood has fully been soured, join Blake, Jason, and Michael as they share their Top 5 films of the half-dead 2020s (ugh, we know)! Regular and semi-regular listeners may notice some repeat offenders. But there may be a few dark horses in these stables! So give it a listen and drown out the existential dread (it won't help)!
1 hr 26 min
May 08, 2025 Princess Mononoke (1997 - Japan) Pt. 2 Deep Dive
The adventure continues on Vintage Cinema Rewind's Deep Dive on Princess Mononoke! Tensions boil over between Iron Town and the old gods of the forest--leaving Blake caught in the crossfire. But as the curse spreads up his arm and he prevents the masked princess from assassinating the local warlord, he begins to questions where his true loyalties lie. But as Michael--the king of the boars--prepares one final charge, the noose tightens around the valley. Can Blake resolve this brutal conflict? Or will this valley descend into chaos?

Where to watch: Princess Mononoke - movie: watch streaming online
51 min
May 02, 2025 Princess Mononoke (1997 - Japan) Pt. 1 Primer
String your bows and mount your red elks, because Vintage Cinema Rewind is back with of Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke! Blake's simple agrarian life as a prince is turned upside down after a chance encounter with a wild boar leaves him marked for death. He's sent into the mountains to seek a cure--but instead finds himself caught in a tangled web spun by many different spiders. Can he navigate these flashing limbs and purify himself before the curse spreads? And just who is this mysterious masked princess who seems so intent on cleaving a bloody path to victory?

Where to watch: Princess Mononoke - movie: watch streaming online
28 min
April 24, 2025 Django (1966 - Italy) Part 2 Deep Dive
DJANGO! Have you always... been an avid listener of Vintage Cinema Rewind: Your 47th (48th?) favourite film podcast. The stakes have raised and the die has been cast! As the rival bandit clans vie for control of the valley and the sack of Confederate gold, Michael and Blake enjoy the few moments of quiet to discuss the film's characters, themes, and the many, many movies it has influenced. Can they shoot their way out of this deadly snare? Or will they be caught with the gold scarlet-handed?

Where to watch: Django - movie: where to watch streaming online
48 min

About Vintage Cinema Rewind

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A podcast bringing old movies to new viewers. For the most part watching films from pre-2000, reviewing and discussing a variety of genres, years, directors, actors/actresses, and shedding light on some lost gems, as well as our personal favourites.