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Originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,Ray Conlogue, "A temple to the world's cinema". The Globe and Mail, September 4, 2001. Quandt first moved to Toronto in the mid-1980s to work as curator of film screening series at the Harbourfront Centre.Rick Groen, "Cinematic search poses telling problems for weary programmer". The Globe and Mail, November 15, 1989. In 1990, when the Toronto International Film Festival took over management and operations of Gerald Pratley's Ontario Film Institute, Quandt was named Pratley's successor as head of the program,"James Quandt to head film institute". Toronto Star, January 30, 1990. which was renamed Cinematheque later the same year.Henry Mietkiewicz, "Cinematheque screens movie classics daily". Toronto Star, October 19, 1990. Exhibitions and retrospectives he has created for TIFF also frequently toured internationally.
He has also been a regular contributor of film criticism and analysis to Artforum magazine and The Criterion Collection, and has been the editor of scholarly on the films of Robert Bresson, Shōhei Imamura, Kon Ichikawa and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.Mark Peranson, "Bridging the present and the past". The Globe and Mail, July 6, 2001.
He retired from TIFF in 2021, after having led the Cinematheque program for 31 years.Barry Hertz, "Inside TIFF’s top-to-bottom plan to emerge from a long, cruel winter: As public-health restrictions lift and spring nears, the TIFF Bell Lightbox is emerging with a renewed focus, solidified leadership and perhaps its strongest programming lineup since the building first opened its doors". The Globe and Mail, February 24, 2022.
In 2001 he was named the recipient of the Toronto Film Critics Association's Clyde Gilmour Award.Brendan Kelly, "‘Memento’ remembered by Toronto crix". Variety, December 19, 2001.
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