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PODCAST

Random Acts of Cinema

Mike Noyes and Charles Peterson

Each week friends Mike and Charlie have Randy (the random number generator) select a film for them to watch from the Criterion Collection. Then they discuss and review it for your listening pleasure. It"s a podcast about the love of film, expanding horizons, painstakingly cataloging the duration of every long take, and friendship.

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01:20:28

611 - Being John Malkovich

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2024/01/02

Director Spike Jonze upends Hollywood conventions in this mind-bending Malkovich. Can Malkovich Malkovich before Malkovich Malkovich? Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Frank Capra's It Happened Once Night

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01:26:25

489 - Monsoon Wedding (2001)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/12/25

This time, Mira Nair unleashes her penchant for a romance-set-among-a-sprawling-family-drama on the nation of India as a wedding is organized, threatened, and celebrated amidst the intensity of a rainy season that I guess is probably a metaphor for something. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If

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01:33:16

885 - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/12/18

Hitch is back! Or rather, here he is just as he’s starting to become THE Alfred Hitchcock. His first thriller blurs the boundaries between guilt, loss, obsession, and paranoia as a bloodthirsty killer of women stalks the London streets… on Tuesdays. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d

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01:11:23

272 - La Commare Secca (1962)

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2023/12/12

In his first film, renowned director Bernardo Bertolucci prowls through the not-so-innocent lives of strangers who just happened to be in a park on the night of a murder. Each have good reason to embellish and omit details as they recount their day leading up to the murder to the police interrogator, but the director unsparingly shows all of the petty choices and disastrous missteps of them all. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come

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01:02:55

38 - Branded to Kill (1967)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/12/05

It is neither a question of where Seijun Suzuki got his ideas from nor who got their ideas from him. Rather it is simply the plain fact that there were the movies that came before his 1967 art/hitman freak-out masterpiece and then there were the movies that came after. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and

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01:13:51

1197 - My Lucky Stars - Jackie Chan: Emergence of a...

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/11/27

1985. Sammo Hung. Jackie Chan. It sounds like we have all of the ingredients for the perfect action/comedy. And we do. We definitely have those ingredients. Hung directs a rag tag group of orphanage buddies, now older, as they are recruited to travel to Japan and infiltrate (via slapstick) a notorious Yakuza gang. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our

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01:29:16

1003 - All About Eve (1950)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/11/20

We got ourselves a Mank! More importantly, we got ourselves a study in contrast between the brash but insecure broadway diva Margo (Bette Davis) and the ambitiously talented wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing Eve (Anne Baxter). Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy podcast. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more

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01:14:41

166 - Down By Law (1986)

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2023/11/13

A classic odd couple picture, except… it’s a trio?! Hilarity and hijinks ensue when a couple of guys find themselves in the unlikeliest of situations: roommates! … Well, kind of. Writer/director Jim Jarmusch jams John Lurie (as a pimp), Tom Waits (as a radio DJ), and Roberto Benigni (as a Roberto Benigni) into a Louisiana jail cell where tensions and unlikely loyalties form in this dryly funny, minimal masterpiece by one of America’s greatest directors. Join our Patreon and support the podcast!

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01:27:49

1060 - Amores Perros (2000)

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2023/11/06

Three heartbreaking stories interweave through Alejandro González Iñárritu's frantic and abrasive entry onto the cinematic world stage. A lovelorn brother who turns to the brutal but lucrative opportunities of back alley dog fighting, a model confined to a crumbling apartment following a life-altering accident, and a hitman with a past who walks the streets unseen. Join our Patreon and support the podcast! Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get

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01:19:07

BONUS PATREON PREVIEW - Are you Friedkin Kidding Me?...

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/10/31

Come listen to a free preview of our upcoming Patreon podcast Are You Friedkin Kidding Me?, where Mike, Charlie, and Alexandra (celebrated returning guest host) watch a different film (or tv show or documentary) from the oeuvre of acclaimed director William Friedkin. And we’re starting with his all-time genre-defining horror masterpiece The Exorcist (1973). The first taste is free. Keep an eye out for more information on our upcoming Patreon and your chance to listen to more episodes of Are You

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01:26:34

909 - Night of the Living Dead (1968)

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2023/10/30

Ok, we don't say it in the episode, but I've just decided that this movie is nothing more than a shameless War of the Worlds rip-off. And now that I've achieved my attention-grabbing hot take, I'll just come clean and say that we loved George A. Romero's all-time classic movie about zom... I mean ghouls that started it all. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs,

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01:10:56

LD309 - Diva (1981)

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2023/10/23

Chic style and a confoundingly lithe ability to shift between classic-cool genres, director Jean-Jacques Beineix plots a Parisian escapade of crime, obsession, genius, whimsy, opera, sex, speed, and violence. Get ready to be the only person in the theater with a single tear running down your face. Because YOU get it. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs,

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01:06:29

653 - Gate of Hell (1953)

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2023/10/16

Stubborn, single-minded obsession forms the icy heart of Teinosuke Kinugasa's sweeping Shakespearean action-drama set in the aftermath of the bloody Heiji Rebellion. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jean-Jacques Beineix’ Diva (1981).

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01:37:04

803 - The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

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2023/10/10

Ol Blue Eyes is back! Back from the Korean War and brainwashed by sinister communist agents, that is. Director John Frankenheimer bends minds and our expectations in his stylishly paranoid thriller set in an era of Cold War paranoia, McCarthyism, and presidential assassination. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch

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01:27:43

287 - Burden of Dreams (1982)

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2023/10/02

Director Les Blank turns his unsparing eye on obsessive visionary director Werner Herzog as he trudges through a years-long journey to film Fitzcarraldo in the South American rainforest. Everything that can go wrong does, and Herzog, the film, and the viewers are left to ponder: is all this worth it? Maybe it is, but since this is the only Herzog-related film in the Collection, we’re thrilled for the chance to discuss one of the defining auteurs of the late 20th century. Join the Random Acts of

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01:29:30

86 - Pygmalion (1938)

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2023/09/25

A uproarious takedown of English class and gender constructions… or a staunch defender of them? At least one of us thinks that this very ambiguity is the whole fun of Anthony Asquith and Leslie Howard’s adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s classic stage comedy. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we

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01:25:07

420 - Le Bonheur (1965)

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2023/09/18

Agnès Varda returns to the podcast with her charming little love story about a happy guy, his happy wife, and his happy mistress. It’s all very nice and sweet. No problems at all. Nope. It’s all good. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Anthony Asquith

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01:29:18

220 - Naked Lunch (1991)

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2023/09/11

David Cronenberg just might be the only director capable of adapting William S. Burroughs’ drug-fueled descent into paranoia, isolation, murder, conspiracy, hallucination, depravity, and… self-actualization? The director’s visionary deadpan perfectly places a stoney-faced Peter Weller into a world of beetle-like typewriters and narcotic-secreting, tough-talking mugwumps without it coming off as, you know: stupid. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get

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01:28:26

810 - In A Lonely Place (1950)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/09/04

Things get dark this week, noir and otherwise in Nicholas Rey’s brooding and prescient look into a doomed and toxic relationship. Humphrey Bogart makes his first appearance on the podcast with one of his best. Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David

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01:06:18

641 - Powaqqatsi (1988)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/08/28

Our first Cannon Group movie!! And it’s the sequel to Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 art house documentary that cuts artfully shot footage to the pace of a rhythmic Philip Glass score. But Chuck Norris or Charles Bronson are still going to show up at some point, right? Right?!? Join the Random Acts of Cinema Discord server here! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store. T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for

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