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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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01:24:03

1175 - Dune (1984)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/04/03

Dune. Arrakis. Podcast episode. We’re not the first to reassess David Lynch’s legendarily-disowned adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic novel, but we’re definitely the most recent (at time of this recording). Get into the Random Acts of Cinema Discord! *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

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01:04:53

735 - Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/03/27

This 1966 Jack Nicholson-penned and Jack Nicholson-starring micro-western has all of the earmarks of a shaggy Head-era wannabe freak-out. But wait… Who’s that over there? Is that… Harry Dean Stanton wearing an eyepatch? Maybe, just maybe… If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Lynch’s Dune (1984). Get into the Random Acts of Cinema Discord! *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store.

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01:13:01

447 Le Doulos (1962)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/03/20

The podcast FINALLY gets to discuss the master of French noir, Jean-Pierre Melville himself. Fedoras and trench coats? A jazzy score? Twists that you see coming and twists that you don’t? A lesson in hard-won and even harder-boiled loyalties? Mais bien sur! *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 watching Monte Hellman’s Ride in the

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01:26:15

LD19 - Blade Runner (1982)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/03/13

We’ve podcasted things you people wouldn’t believe. Like the international theatrical release version of Ridley Scott’s tech noir stunner starring Harrison Ford doing his uh… best?… voice-over narration. Mike picks this for Charlie’s annual incept-date show! *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-Pierre

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01:11:46

791 - Lady Snowblood Love Song of Vengeance (1974)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/03/06

Is the solution to having not enough Lady Snowblood, just making more Lady Snowblood? The very concept of “the sequel” is methodically hunted down and eviscerated in this follow-up episode on a director Toshiya Fujita’s own follow-up to one of the best action movies of all time. *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

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01:14:28

790 - Lady Snowblood (1973)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/02/27

Mike likes the sword hidden in a parasol. Charlie likes that it takes place during the Meiji era. But who are we kidding? The best part is that Toshiya Fujita’s visually dynamic action/revenge film really lives up to the title. Lady. Snow. Blood. *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 Toshiya Fujita’s Lady

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01:22:31

783 - Pather Panchali (1955)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/02/20

Satyajit Ray's first installment of the Apu Trilogy, reigns as one of the greatest depictions of humanity ever recorded on film. But does it live up to all of the hype? Yes. It does. What a stupid question. *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 Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood (1973).

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01:11:25

362 - Border Radio (1987)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/02/13

“Punk rock died when the last kid said, ‘Punk’s not dead… punk’s not dead.’” Or maybe it died when Los Angeles punk frontman Jeff Bailey had to duck over the border into Mexico after stealing $1,000 and a handful of quaaludes from a club owner’s safe. Directors Allison Anders, Dean Lent, and Kurt Voss question all this and more in this classic independent film tracing the struggles of the band members, hangers on, and wife and child who are left behind. Good music too. *Come support the podcast

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01:17:12

83 - The Harder They Come (1973)

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2023/02/06

You know those movies that are about a young person full of promise, who comes to the big city in search of fortune and fame, but inescapable poverty and exploitative gatekeepers drive them to crime, oh and these movies also have a really good soundtrack? Well, this is one of those. And it’s probably the best version of all them, thanks to Jimmy Cliff. *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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01:31:11

562 - Blow Out (1981)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/01/30

Brian De Palma's Philadelphia-based thriller, steeped in paranoia-based conspiracy, pits a low-rent audio specialist (John Travolta) as an "ear witness" to an assassination. He soon convinces a black-mailer (Nancy Allen) whose in over her head as his accomplice. But deranged killer (John Lithgow) is out to tie off all loose ends. All this and split screens! If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1972).

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01:30:39

978 - One Sings The Other Doesn’t (1977)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/01/23

Director Agnès Varda leads the viewer through over a decade in the lives of two friends, Apple and Suzanne, as they seek fulfillment and freedom, struggling against the demands of conservative French society over their bodies and presumed gender roles. An emphatic and highly pragmatic celebration of liberal attitudes toward sex and abortion rights, the film sets itself the lofty task of trying to set an example for women struggling against similar political and societal restrictions in the

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01:26:08

1023 - The Cremator (1969)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/01/16

Czech director Juraj Herz takes us on a dreamlike journey into madness of an employee at a Prague crematorium both before and during the German invasion leading to the Second World War. Or is he really trying to account for the madness of collaboration in a nation struggling with its own involvement with the holocaust? Well, we certainly can’t say, but this film certainly seems to ask that question. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store.

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01:15:50

314 - Pickpocket (1959)

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2023/01/09

You know those drab, mid-century French films where pale, thin guys in suits stare at each other with blank, unreadable expressions on there faces while a voiceover drones on describing this inaction with a slight undercurrent of pseudo-nihilism? But, like, it’s somehow super thrilling AND deeply beautiful? Robert Bresson brings his stripped-down style to this meditative procedural about a despondent, but highly-skilled criminal that set the standard for angsty crime films. If you’d like to watch

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01:15:09

1024 - Destry Rides Again (1939)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2023/01/02

Now wait just a minute here. Let me try to get this straight. You mean to tell me that Jimmy Stewart is a new deputy sheriff in town that doesn’t carry a gun, he avoids confrontation with a corrupt saloon owner, and Marlene Dietrich plays a brazen, world-weary singer with a heart of gold? Well it sure seems like director George Marshall had exactly that in mind in this classic comedy western. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store.

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01:19:03

230 - 3 Women (1977)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/12/26

To steal (and completely spoil) Mike’s joke from the very end of this episode: we hope that you’re ready to listen to three men discuss 3 Women. Because we’re joined this week by Patrick O’Riley from the Vintage Video Podcast, who brings us Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek in Robert Altman’s mind-bending, identity-shattering, dream of a film. Or film of a dream? This is, apparently, up for debate. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our merch store.

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01:31:27

LD150 - Boyz N the Hood (1991)

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2022/12/19

John Singleton transforms the nostalgia-laden, American coming-of-age tale, establishing the iconic South Central setting at a crucial moment in American history. Already a political film, the director anticipates the Los Angeles riots and secures gangsta rap as the hub of early 90s culture. *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, we will be discussing

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01:28:42

33 - Nanook of the North (1922)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/12/12

Like the Documentary Now! spoof, we’re really more interested in our protagonist Nanook (Allakariallak) than the admittedly-groundbreaking documentarian Robert J. Flaherty. And sure, it’s obviously staged. But our survivalist hero sure knows how to use the hell out of a walrus tusk knife. It’s mesmerizing. *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,

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01:25:23

945 - A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/12/05

Uh oh. It’s a movie based on a play. Can the screen presences of Hollywood legends Sydney Poitier and Ruby Dee possibly transcend this stage-to-screen adaptation that only adds a couple of quick cut-away scenes of a single alternative setting to an otherwise one-room story? Well… yes. Pretty easily, it turns out. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922).

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01:12:54

410 - Under The Volcano (1984)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/11/28

Special guest Max Rieger joins us this week as we dive into the volatile and fascinating world of 1938 Mexico in order to follow the last day in the life of… an alcoholic English misanthrope played by hunky 1980s dreamboat Albert Finney. Director John Huston’s adaptation of Malcolm Lowry’s so-called “unfilmable,” semi-autobiographical novel is a raging, Joycian, stagger through a world on the precipice of war. If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing A

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01:19:46

LD66 - The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Random Acts of Cinema ·

2022/11/21

Look, of course we want to just talk about Kevin Kostner’s 1991 masterpiece (the one they got right). But it’s just not in the collection. So I guess we’ll just watch this “Prince of Thieves” adaptation starring some guy named Errol Flynn in a pointy hat and tights. Maybe it’s good? If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Huston Under the Volcano (1984).

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