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16/11/2022

📣Spotlight Alert!!📣
Today, we're highlighting the director of Se7en, David Fincher! In our latest Podcast Extra, our new hosts Rianna Jakson and Kiefer Callewaert, with special guest Joseph Torres, analyze Fincher’s Se7en, alongside Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform!!🔉

David Fincher is an American film director and co-founder of the film and music production company, Propaganda Films. Se7en is one of Fincher’s first major films, which became Oscar nominated for Best Editing in 1996. Along with writer, Andrew Kevin Walker, this film also received attention from the BAFTA Awards where it was nominated for Best Screenplay.

In addition to Se7en, Fincher has garnered huge directorial success amongst his other films such as Fight Club (1999), The Social Network (2010), and Gone Girl (2014). He’s been nominated for 3 Oscar Academy Awards for his work in directing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009), The Social Network (2010), and Monk (2020). Along with this, Fincher has directed music videos for artists like Madonna, Sting, The Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, and Billy Idol.

🎙 "As a director, film is about how you dole out the information so that the audience stays with you when they're supposed to stay with you, behind you when they're supposed to stay behind you, and ahead of you when they're supposed to stay ahead of you.”

Courtesy of IMDB
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15/11/2022

Scene Analysis: The Batman (2022) · Listen to our co-host, Rianna Jakson, break down the music theory of the haunting theme for the Riddler. Did you know the theme drew inspiration from Ave Maria?

"The Riddler Theme" is composed by Michael Giacchino; dir. Matt Reeves.

The podcast extra "The Batman & Se7en" is out NOW! Available anywhere you get your audio.

Narrated by Rianna Jakson | Video-Essay edited by Ryan Gies | Script by Rianna Jakson & Kiefer Callewaert

07/11/2022

🔔New Spotlight!!🔔
Today, we're highlighting Matt Reeves, director, producer, and screenwriter of The Batman! You can listen to our new hosts Rianna Jakson and Kiefer Callewaert, with special guest Joseph Torres, analyze Reeves’ The Batman in the latest Halloween podcast extra! 🔉

Matt Reeves is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter from Rockville Centre, New York. Reeves directed The Batman from a screenplay by both Reeves and Peter Craig, based on characters from the D.C. Batman comics. This film has become the newest reboot for the Batman film franchise by Warner Bros. Pictures.

In addition to The Batman, Reeves has directed a vast array of science fiction films including the Planet of the Apes adaptations, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and the later sequel, War of the Planet of the Apes (2017). He’s won numerous awards, including the ACCEC Award for The Batman and the Fright Meter Award for his film, Let Me In (2010), starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Richard Jenkins.

🎙 "The power of cinema is this idea of putting in this empathetic relationship with someone who isn’t you, even someone who’s doing things you’d like to think you’d never do, so you can question those things about yourself.”

Courtesy of IMDB
🔗 https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/the-batman
🔗 https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0716257/

31/10/2022

Your next streaming obsession is HERE! 😱🦇📦 Happy Halloween, listeners!

WELCOME TO SEASON 3! In their special debut extra for Halloween, hosts Rianna Jakson and Kiefer Callewaert examine the inspirations lifted from classical mythology and literature between The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves) and Se7en (David Fincher).

Listen along as they investigate what motivates the "day of reckoning" in each story; how is punishment dealt; and how does the music draw on a classical prayers to transform and embellish character's themes? With special guest Joseph Torres!

Hosted by Rianna Jakson & Kiefer Callewaert | Edited by Rianna Jakson & Ryan Gies | Podcast art by Jacky Celestino | Podcast music by Quentin Callewaert

🔈 Available anywhere you get your audio!

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25/10/2022

📣 Spotlight Series has returned! Today, we're highlighting our recent special guest, Edson Oda! You can listen to him in Season 2 Episode 3 "Nine Days and The Green Knight" with Emily Ko and Jacky Celestino!

Edson Oda is a Japanese Brazilian writer/director based in LA. Nine Days is Oda’s feature directorial debut which premiered at Sundance 2020. The incredible script which Oda wrote won him the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the film festival.

In addition to Nine Days, Oda has a huge body of work that ranges from short films to music videos. He’s won numerous awards, including the special Jury Award in the Seattle International Film Festival for his short Malaria which creatively utilizes and combines various art forms to tell a story.

🎙 "If you want to be a writer, write. If you want to be a director, direct. The scale, the budget of your film, those things don’t matter. You think they do, but they really don’t. Just keep doing it, and if something doesn’t turn out the way you wanted, do it again."

Courtesy of USC Cinematic Arts
🔗 https://www.edsonoda.com/

25/10/2022

Welcome to UMassterclass, the official award-winning podcast of the UMass Film Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst! We are your go-to show for students, filmmakers, and film faculty getting educated, together, on all things film, television, and screen media. UMassterclass is written and produced by students in the Film Studies program at UMass Amherst. 🎥

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Scene Analysis: The Batman (2022) · Listen to our co-host, Rianna Jakson, break down the music theory of the haunting theme for the Riddler. Did you know the theme drew inspiration from Ave Maria? "The Riddler Theme" is composed by Michael Giacchino; dir. Matt Reeves. The podcast extra "The Batman & Se7en" is out NOW! Available anywhere you get your audio. Narrated by Rianna Jakson | Video-Essay edited by Ryan Gies | Script by Rianna Jakson & Kiefer Callewaert #umass #umassterclasspod #filmstudies #thebatman #batman #robertpattinson #zoëkravitz #podcast #se7en #mattreeves #michaelgiacchino #theriddler #pauldano

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