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An ECFS Productions Original Podcast: Cinema Spectator is a film history podcast that takes away the pretense that usually comes along with learning about film. Each week, we tackle a "classic" of film history but do these films actually hold up for a modern audience? Can they entertain someone who grew up on Spider-Man reboots and Jim Carrey movies, or will they forever be relics of a bygone era?
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Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
This month episodes (requested by Tim Smith), Cameron takes Isaac back 10 years to remember 2013. This retrospective starts with Denis Villeneuve, covering a lesser known 2013 release staring Jake Gyllenhaal, Sarah Gadon, and more. Follow a haunting story of a surrounding a mundane history professor who just discovered an actor look-alike while watching a movie. Can this eerie, metaphorical journey be enough for a casual viewer to connect, or will Villeneuve lean into obscurity beyond a normal audiences grasp.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
The Oscar nomination and 2022 wrap-up continues, with Isaac, Cameron, and special-guest Juzo Greenwood driving into Steven Spielberg's latest film. Witness a slow moving coming-of-age film following the auto-biographical upbringing of Spielberg himself. The fact that is was directed and created by Spielberg has created some distain for the movie, but the crew believes that this movie might be trying to show something more than self-indulgence.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Oscar nominations continue with Tár, starting Cate Blanchett as an elite musical conductor haunted by a self-fulfilling failure surrounding her questionable actions and interactions with the people around her. Cameron and Isaac discuss this slow film and try to derive what it all means. Can it even connect with a casual viewer?
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Monday Feb 13, 2023
Isaac and Cameron continue the 2022 reviews with this huge summer blockbuster staring Tom Cruise. Widely seen and widely discussed, Top Gun: Maverick picks up the story from the first film 30-some years later, following Maverick's life in older age. Tasked with training younger pilots, Maverick jumps back in the cockpit for a thrilling action adventure. So what made this film a smashing success? And what might it fail at? A casual and a critic are here to expand the conversation on action films through the decades.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Juzo and Isaac kick off the Oscar conversation with this highly praised action drama Fromm 2022. With an incredible cast, innovative creativity, and important message, it's no surprise this film is in the conversation for best picture. But how does it hold up to a casual and a film expert? Warning: some light spoilers for the Irishman and a few other films at the end of the episode.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Revisiting a film for the second time on this show is a first, but Cameron and Isaac thought it would be great way to assess a "casuals" response to cinematic exposure. Our Sunset Boulevard conversation revolves around revisiting films, finding new things to appreciate, and dissecting some of its excellence with the previous context of Wilder movies. This is not a normal review, instead a retrospective on the experience of watching a great film for the second time.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Isaac and Cameron look back on a year of reviews in 2022 and hand out arbitrary awards as they reflect on Cinema Spectators journey.
2022's Full Episode List:
- City Lights (1931)
- The General (1926) and One Week (1920)
- A Quick History of Early Silent Films
- Manhattan (1979)
- About Time (2013)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- 500 Days of Summer (2009)
- The Batman (2022)
- 1984 (1984)
- Jarhead (2005)
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
- 1917 (2019)
- Top 10 Films of 2021
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Barry Lyndon (1975)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- The Pianist (2002)
- Paddington (2014)
- Paddington 2 (2017)
- The Post (2017)
- NOPE (2022)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Se7en (1995)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Panic Room (2002)
- Zodiac (2007)
- The Social Network (2007)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Suspiria (1977)
- Barbarian (2022)
- Decision to Leave (2022)
- Triangle of Sadness (2022)
- Rashomon (1950)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Rope (1948)
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
There's birds. There's Hitchcock. But is there suspense this time? Cameron and Isaac are back to finish the exploration of Alfred Hitchcock films with this well-known thriller. Will it live up to his great films of the past or will this be a stumble in this impressive catalog.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Isaac and Cameron continue their exploration of Hitchcock movies in reverse, reviewing a small-scale drama surrounding murder and morality. This film revolves around a strange event after a murder: a house party. The body is hidden. And the murders are hosting. Follow the peculiar unraveling of a verbose crime, followed by interesting philosophical ideas around humanity and its moral standards.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
Tuesday Dec 13, 2022
The duo is back to review another classic from the "master of suspense"! Isaac and Cameron dive into another Alfred Hitchcock film, but will this be the movie to win over our host as Hitchcock fans? Rear Window follows L.B, a recently injured photo-journalist who has been surveying his neighborhood from his apartment window. After viewing what appeared to be a normal day, L.B seeing some suspicious behavior that sets him on a mysterious puzzle to discover what's up with his neighbors.
Cinema Spectator is a movie podcast hosted by Isaac Ransom and Cameron Tuttle. The show is executive produced by Darrin O’Neill; recorded & produced in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. You can support the show at patreon.com/ecfsproductions. Follow us on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter under ECFS Productions (@ecfsproductions). Isaac and Cameron started recording podcast with their first project Everything Comes from Something (2018), now focusing on new weekly content for Cinema Spectator. Cameron Tuttle is a full-time professional cinematographer, majoring from SFSU Film school to collaborate with corporate, private, and creative productions. Cameron is the expert. Isaac Ransom is a professional creative, digital marketer, and product manager working full-time. Isaac is the student. The podcast is a passion project between two longtime friends, we hope you can enjoy our project with the limited time we have! Thank you for your time, your generosity, and support.